A group of law enforcement officials were injured after a wooden deck collapsed underneath them whilst they were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on a child predator in Missouri. Bodycam footage shows the four deputy US Marshals and five Randolph County Sheriff’s deputies falling to the ground as the decking outside Jacob Alexander Munoz’s...Read More
Federal authorities on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against 17 Iranians affiliated with the tech firm Mabna Institute, alleging a campaign of vast cybertheft on behalf of the Iranian government against universities, governments and companies. It’s a second wave of indictments against the Tehran-based firm, expanding on and replacing a 2018 indictment of nine of the...Read More
Cybercrime is taking a growing financial toll on Texans, with scammers using increasingly sophisticated tactics to convince victims they are dealing with someone they know and trust. According to the FBI, Texas was one of the states hit hardest by cybercrime in 2025, ranking second nationally in both reported complaints and financial losses. Nearly 98,000...Read More
Editor’s note: On 17 August 2026, the company OpenAI released a new version of its artificial intelligence app ChatGPT. Geared for young people, it changes the way they will interact with an AI chatbot when discussing such things as depression and suicide and it will respond in different ways if it appears the person is...Read More
Huntress has observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in the first half of 2026. Brute force is old news, but the spin driving that spike is new. One major contributor was a campaign targeting Microsoft’s Azure CLI, the command-line tool admins use to manage Azure and Entra resources. The traffic originated from an...Read More
ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s pausing the research and development of its newest AI models. This is a big course reversal for the firm, which has maintained that it can mitigate the significant cybersecurity risks posed by new AI models. “As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing...Read More
Per Nextgov, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is considering consolidating its cybersecurity software and tool purchases under a single contract, potentially managed by an external contractor.CISA is currently acquiring these tools through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and its Capacity Building arm. The agency issued a sources sought notice on Aug. 12 to...Read More
After Australia passed the world’s first social media ban for children under 16, threatening to cut Meta off from the lucrative teen demographic, the company turned to one of its favored tactics for pushing back. In July 2025, five months before the ban took effect, Meta invited a group of Australian parent influencers to something...Read More
Updated Aug. 18, 2026, 1:18 p.m. ET Chris Hansen has some questions about “Hollywood’s motive” behind a new film about him. In an interview on the “Serialously with Annie Elise” podcast, the former “To Catch a Predator” host, 66, weighed in on the upcoming movie “Primetime,” which dramatizes his controversial “Dateline NBC” segment dedicated to...Read More
Dive Brief: Medium-sized businesses accounted for roughly three-quarters (73%) of ransomware incidents between 2023 and the first half of 2026, according to the risk management firm Black Kite. Manufacturing was the most targeted industry (accounting for more than 25% of those victims), and nearly 30% of mid-market organizations had at least one known exploited vulnerability,...Read More
