After hackers targeted water utilities across the country late last month, the board of directors for Alabama’s largest water utility hired a Michigan-based IT company on Monday to help with its cybersecurity efforts. Central Alabama Water’s contract with IT services company Element Four doesn’t come with a price tag, which some board members questioned and...Read More
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In 2006, “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. “Primetime” explores the intense, behind-the-scenes world of the infamous investigative sting operations that the original NBC news segment was known for. Only in theaters September 25th. It delves into the making of the show, the media sensation, and the dark...Read More
Baptist University has said it is reviewing the security of its information technology (IT) systems after a ransomware group claimed online to have illegally accessed the Hong Kong institution’s data. The allegations were made by “The Gentlemen”, an advanced cybercrime group that first appeared in the middle of last year. Cybersecurity monitoring platforms reported that...Read More
According to the Sudanese human rights organisation Emergency Lawyers, another 30 journalists are reportedly facing similar charges in the same case. However, Reporters Without Borders has not had access to the relevant court documents. This use of anti-cybercrime legislation to punish media professionals is not unprecedented. In May, the army-backed authorities arrested Rishan Oshi, a journalist and...Read More
Consumer AI Hacking Bet Hits 70% on Manifold After a Claude Agent Exploits a Gym Booking API. A Manifold market asking whether a mainstream AI assistant will autonomously hack something to answer a regular user’s question by the end of 2027 jumped to a 70% implied probability of YES as of August 11, 2026. Roughly...Read More
Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels Six US and South Korean government agencies jointly warned Monday that Gunra, a ransomware-as-a-service operation built on leaked code from the notorious Conti gang, has struck at least 51 organizations across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific — breaching hospitals, government agencies, and financial institutions by exploiting unpatched Fortinet...Read More
Posted By Steve Alder on Aug 11, 2026 CISA, the FBI, and international partners have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about the Gunra ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, which is targeting government and critical infrastructure entities, including healthcare organizations, and organizations in other sectors. The group has conducted attacks in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and...Read More
Meta Platforms Inc phone with logos by- Kira-Yan via iStock With a year-to-date (YTD) loss of around 10%, Meta Platforms (META) is the second-worst-performing Magnificent 7 stock this year. Only Tesla (TSLA) has fared worse this year, and all other Mag 7 constituents are in the green. Meanwhile, Meta seems to be facing a perfect...Read More
The cybersecurity industry has become increasingly capable of telling organizations what is wrong. Across endpoints, identities, cloud environments, email systems and browsers, security teams have access to an expanding stream of findings that can be investigated and prioritized. For security leaders, however, identifying an exposure is only the beginning. The more difficult question is whether...Read More
