MIAMI — A former youth pastor who flew through South Florida in 2025 already carrying a sordid past now has a bleak future ahead of him, federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday: 40 years in federal prison. Leer en español Jacob Melvin Hart, 46, of San Juan Capistrano, California, was sentenced by a Miami federal judge...Read More
To strengthen the city’s digital security, the Chandigarh Administration has officially established the State Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (S4C). The centre was set up after a Supreme Court judgment regarding “digital arrest” victims and directives from the Ministry of Home Affairs. According to the notification issued by the administration, the new centre will operate under...Read More
New details have emerged about a security incident in which an OpenAI AI model broke out of its testing environment and compromised Hugging Face’s infrastructure. An update OpenAI published on July 28 filled in details that weren’t part of the original disclosure. The AI agent also identified and used exposed credentials on four accounts across...Read More
John Riggi, AHA national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, shares insights from a conversation with two FBI leaders about the surge of cyberattacks on the U.S. healthcare field — including how nation-state actors are leveraging cybercriminals and artificial intelligence to disrupt healthcare — and what hospitals and health systems can do to defend themselves. READ MORE ——————————————————-...Read More
WASHOUGAL, Wash. (KATU) — Washougal Police arrested two men from Oregon during an undercover sting operation where officers posed as children online. According to investigators, both men thought they were meeting up with a minor child to exchange money for sexual activity. Officials said no actual children were involved in the undercover communications. Washougal Police...Read More
THE Supreme Court’s suggestion to formally define digital arrest in criminal laws and declare it a standalone offence with harsher punishments merits serious consideration. There has been a sharp rise in cyber scams in which fraudsters impersonate police and investigating agencies’ officers, court officials or government personnel through video and audio calls to intimidate victims...Read More
A coordinated wave of exploitation targeting edge VPN and firewall appliances from four major vendors Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Citrix, and Check Point has emerged as the dominant initial-access vector for ransomware operators in mid-2026. Threat actors, including affiliates of the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, are chaining authentication-bypass flaws, credential-harvesting campaigns, and legacy-protocol weaknesses to...Read More
Hackers Strike Minnesota Water Utilities, One Plant Briefly Offline Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2026 Coordinated OT cyberattacks hit 30+ Minnesota water utilities, briefly disrupting one plant. Backup procedures prevented major water service impacts. Minnesota just had its own live-fire lesson in what happens when someone targets water utilities at scale. Between Sunday and Monday, July...Read More
A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced legislation on July 24 that would direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide schools with cybersecurity guidance, incident tracking, training, and technical support. The Enhancing K-12 Cybersecurity Act, introduced by Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, and Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Marsha Blackburn,...Read More
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. (WBNG) –New York State officials have released final regulations outlining how social media companies must implement the SAFE for Kids Act, a law signed in 2024 that restricts algorithm-driven feeds for users under 18. The law — which stands for Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation — requires social media platforms to limit algorithmically...Read More
