A ransomware attack against one of Canada’s largest healthcare facilities has demonstrated how cyber incidents can extend beyond data and computer networks to disrupt the physical infrastructure that keeps a hospital operational. The Health Sciences Centre (HSC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was recently affected by a ransomware incident that disrupted several facility-management systems, including doors, elevators,...Read More
AI concept in screen with young man getty SMBs from all industries are being hammered in today’s threat landscape. While headlines spotlight high-profile cyberattacks and sophisticated hacks, SMBs are the most impacted sector in cybersecurity. They face the same attacks large companies do, including increasing AI threats, but with far fewer resources. In 2025, the...Read More
A senior cybersecurity staffer from a Fortune 500 organization learned something alarming and unexpected during a recent training session at Black Hat USA: Because his company’s MCP server wasn’t secured properly, anyone on the conference’s public network could have gained write-access to its EDR system. “‘Somebody on hotel Wi-Fi could have host-isolated all of...Read More
Meta Platforms and other social media companies face a growing wave of lawsuits over alleged harm to children and teenagers. The cases involve state attorneys general, school districts, families, and individual plaintiffs. The litigation has now reached a critical stage. In California, jury selection began August 12 in a landmark federal case involving Meta and...Read More
KATHMANDU: Surendra Prasad Khanal, 34, of Nuwakot, was arrested on July 10 for allegedly attempting to defame a woman by sending obscene messages via email. In separate incidents earlier that month, police arrested 19-year-old Bibek Sunar, also from Nuwakot, on July 8 for hacking a Facebook account to carry out fraud, while 22-year-old Shubham Sah...Read More
US President Donald Trump says he is expanding the fight against cyber crime by enabling private-sector computer security companies to fight back – but experts say the idea is not new. On Wednesday evening, Mr Trump issued a notice in which he said the US private technology sector was the “most innovative and technologically advanced”,...Read More
Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Black Hat Luta Security’s Katie Moussouris on Frontier Models, Bugs and Containment Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • August 14, 2026 Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO, Luta Security Organizations that deferred patching because it was too costly or disruptive are now facing a reckoning. Artificial intelligence...Read More
CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. Tracked as CVE-2026-45659, this security flaw stems from a deserialization of untrusted data weakness and allows attackers with low privileges to execute arbitrary code on unpatched SharePoint servers....Read More
Luta Security’s Katie Moussouris on Frontier Models, Bugs and Containment Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • August 14, 2026 Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO, Luta Security Organizations that deferred patching because it was too costly or disruptive are now facing a reckoning. Artificial intelligence is generating vulnerability reports and new findings at a volume that...Read More
eScan has recognised its top-performing channel partners with a week-long trip to Thailand, underscoring its continued focus on channel relationships. The cyber security company, a brand of MicroWorld Technologies, brought together leading partners for networking, business discussions, cultural activities and sightseeing. The trip was designed both to reward sales performance and deepen engagement with resellers...Read More
