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Benjamin Morris, former interim executive director at Quad City Arts, was arrested on 30 felonies relating to child pornography Monday night.
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Source: Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment The Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) agency activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities across the entire state after hackers targeted more than 30 community water systems in “a coordinated cyberattack.” The attacks occurred on Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, and targeted operational technology (OT) systems at local water utilities....Read More
Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St’s easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. Dell Technologies joined an industry coalition to launch an open-source AI cybersecurity alliance. The alliance aims to share tools and research to improve AI driven threat detection and defense. This move broadens Dell Technologies’ role in AI beyond...Read More
New York Attorney General Letitia James has released the final rules implementing the state’s SAFE for Kids Act, establishing how social media companies must limit addictive features for users under 18. The regulations outline how platforms must comply with the law, which requires companies to restrict algorithmically personalized content feeds and overnight notifications for minors...Read More
As Lucknow’s newly appointed Police Commissioner, Tarun Gauba is set to implement a technology-driven vision for the city’s safety LUCKNOW: Newly appointed Lucknow Police Commissioner Tarun Gauba assumed charge on Wednesday, outlining an ambitious policing agenda centred on technology-driven investigation, data-based crime prevention, swift disposal of public grievances and scientific policing.Stressing that the nature of...Read More
Global study reveals that AI is amplifying phishing, impersonation and credential theft, transforming ransomware into a human-centric extortion problem SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 22, 2026 – Proofpoint, Inc., a global leader in human- and agent-centric security, today released its 2026 AI-Era Ransomware Report, revealing that artificial intelligence is making ransomware significantly more successful by helping attackers create more convincing phishing, impersonation and credential theft campaigns. The global study found that nearly two-thirds (65%) of global organizations affected...Read More
Executive Summary Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS), a healthcare billing and practice-management company based in Augusta, Georgia, experienced a significant data breach affecting over 1.26 million individuals. The breach occurred between September 22 and 26, 2025, and was discovered and investigated internally, with public disclosure and regulatory filings taking place in June and July 2026....Read More
Last week, two of OpenAI’s most advanced AI models were reported to have “escaped” a controlled testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, a totally separate AI company, moving from one computer system to another to complete their task. Reuters reported that the models exploited vulnerable code written by a customer of yet a third independent...Read More
The European Union promoted concrete action to strengthen global cybersecurity during the first substantive Plenary of the United Nations Global Mechanism on Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace, held from 20 to 24 July in New York. Cyber threats increasingly affect people’s lives worldwide, from attacks on hospitals and critical infrastructure to ransomware targeting businesses and...Read More
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Predators are finding vulnerable children through gaming platforms and social media, then manipulating and blackmailing them into increasingly dangerous acts. The FBI says active investigations are underway across the country, including in Central Florida, and parents are the first line of defense. What starts as a simple conversation online can quickly...Read More
