Meta said Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models breached another company during cybersecurity testing, intensifying concerns over developers’ ability to contain increasingly capable AI systems following similar incidents involving Anthropic and OpenAI. The incidents at Meta and Anthropic resulted from configuration errors that inadvertently gave Anthropic’s models access to the open internet. Meta...Read More

VINCENNES, Ind. (WTHI) – The Vincennes Community School Corporation said Tuesday it is shutting down its servers after a ransomware attack hit its technology provider. School officials said the district’s technology provider, AME, is dealing with a ransomware attack originating from one of its customers. Phones, internet affected Out of an abundance of caution, school...Read More

Microsoft Defender’s new automatic device isolation capability has emerged as a decisive control against modern ransomware intrusions that abuse legitimate Windows binaries, as demonstrated in a recent incident at QNET where a multi-stage attack was stopped in just 128 seconds. The mshta.exe process reached out to attacker-controlled infrastructure, retrieved a remote second-stage payload, and began...Read More

⚠️ A repeat child sex offender’s latest guilty plea is drawing renewed attention to stalled New Jersey legislation. ➡️ Four bills would change how communities handle registered sex offenders and affordable housing. 🔴 Supporters say the measures would strengthen public safety, but none has advanced this legislative session. TRENTON — There is a new spotlight...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — Private sector partners got a special shoutout in a panel of top European cyber law enforcement officials Wednesday as they discussed industry involvement in major takedowns of cybercrime groups. At RSAC Conference, Dutch National Police cybercrime director Stan Dujif, UK National Crime Agency cyber crime unit lead Paul Foster, and Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt...Read More

President Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers On August 5, 1981, under orders from President Reagan, the federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone on strike two days previous for better pay, hours and working conditions. Learn more about the PATCO air traffic control strike. Listen to an excerpt of...Read More

Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock A reluctance to update Windows is understandable. After all, it’s an OS notoriously loaded with features that slow down your computer. However, it also includes a number of handy secret features, as well as some lesser-known privacy features that make it more usable, and...Read More

Updoc patients have been notified their personal information may have been accessed in a security breach. The website is used for 24/7 telehealth services across Australia. Customers were advised there was a “brief period of unauthorised access to a third party system” where hackers had access to names, email and postal addresses on July 31....Read More

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities used to surface over weeks. Now they surface in minutes, as attackers move faster than defenders can respond, forcing the industry’s biggest gatherings to rethink how practitioners find trustworthy answers fast. One answer many lean on is cybersecurity peer review — vetting research, startups and threat intelligence before it reaches a stage or...Read More

A powerful California real estate investor weaponized an online sex ring in the vile pursuit of his underage victims, prosecutors claimed. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins slapped a slew of charges on investment property honcho Reuben Teague, 50, for his alleged participation in a dramatic online child sex ring sting conducted by the San...Read More