Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen, has pled guilty to hacking more than 165 companies, stealing billions of records, and extorting several companies and individuals. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the guilty plea in a press release. Moucka was accused of hacking cloud provider Snowflake, which allowed him and his co-conspirators to...Read More
Autodidactic pentesting is where AI agents can learn, adapt and retest as environments evolve, to proactively eliminate attack paths. As AI systems become capable of carrying out complex, multi-step cyber operations, good intentions and prompt-based guardrails are no longer sufficient. To realize the benefits of autodidactic pentesting, organizations need trusted local AI capabilities and industry-wide...Read More
Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann has created a select committee in the state Senate to discuss cybersecurity matters. Specifically, the committee will focus on the security of state and local government information systems across the state, as well as reviewing the penalties for those who commit cybercrimes in Mississippi. In announcing the move, Hosemann says the...Read More
Older adults are losing billions of dollars to scammers as fraud schemes grow more sophisticated, more personal and harder to spot — leading to a fourfold increase in losses over four years, federal data shows. Financial fraud comes in a variety of forms — whether it’s someone promising to work on a home or a...Read More
Columnists Chris Jones As summer begins to wind down, our community is preparing for another exciting school year. In doing so, the Marshalltown Police Department’s top priority is ensuring that every student, parent, and teacher returns to school in a safe, secure, and conducive-to-learning environment. As our department does our best to help make this...Read More
Back-to-school safety tips for parents As students and parents get ready for the first day of school, Fort Bend County law enforcement has reminders for parents to keep their kids’ safety a priority. FOX 26’s Mekenna Earnhart shares what the Precinct 4 constable had to say. FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas – As families across Fort...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — In a last-minute legislative push before their August recess, on Wednesday, a group of senators advanced the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill intended to mark the beginning of the end of what’s been a dangerous – and sometimes deadly – digital environment for children. In a last-minute legislative push before their...Read More
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Most people who think they have a cloud backup actually have cloud sync. Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive copy files up as they change, which means a ransomware attack or an accidental mass-delete gets copied to the cloud just as fast as a new holiday photo does. Sophos found that 51% of US organisations surveyed...Read More
OpenAI executives spoke out for the first time on Wednesday about how its AI models hacked Hugging Face last month, sharing chilling details about how the agents worked together for months prior to the attack. On stage at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI alignment and safety researcher Eric Wallace along with...Read More
