PETERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A former Washington County high school employee has been sentenced on federal child porn charges. Jason Waynes Ayres, 48, was sentenced to four to eight years in prison on Monday. Ayres was an IT employee at Peters Township High School and pleaded guilty to two felony counts of sexual abuse of...Read More
Lofgren hosted experts to discuss AI’s agricultural applications, water conservation, broadband, workforce, and responsible innovation. Quiver AI Summary Lofgren hosts AI roundtable: Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren held a roundtable at San José State University with civic, academic, agricultural and technology leaders. The discussion focused on how artificial intelligence could affect farm productivity, water security, broadband access...Read More
Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between...Read More
Two Western Australian men have been charged following a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police, Western Australia Police Force, and the FBI into an alleged cybercrime syndicate. They are accused of using malicious code hidden in open-source software to compromise organizations worldwide. Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, and Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, were arrested in...Read More
KnowBe4 has launched email and collaboration security protection for Google Workspace through its Defend product, extending its existing email security offering to Google’s workplace platform. The product targets phishing, business email compromise and artificial intelligence-driven attacks in Gmail and related collaboration tools. For organisations using Google Workspace, it adds threat detection, AI-based verdicts and employee...Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man who lost his home in the Old Trails Fire is facing an unexpected financial burden from his security company after attempting to cancel his home alarm service. Nearly all of the homes on Holyoke Avenue near Nine Mile Road were destroyed by the Old Trails Fire. Jeremy Fagan used...Read More
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Heartland News) – Changes are coming to social media platforms under Meta following an $18 billion settlement in a landmark lawsuit. Dozens of states, including those in the Heartland, are set to receive some of that payout. The lawsuit alleged the media giant purposely designed addictive platforms and harmed young people’s mental...Read More
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Heartland News) – Changes are coming to social media platforms under Meta following an $18 billion settlement in a landmark lawsuit. Dozens of states, including those in the Heartland, are set to receive some of that payout. The lawsuit alleged the media giant purposely designed addictive platforms and harmed young people’s mental...Read More
On Monday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) confirmed that a ransomware gang broke into one of its computer systems and published stolen files, including material from open criminal investigations. The Qilin ransomware group, a Russian-speaking operation, claimed the attack and posted roughly 6.3GB of data to its dark web leak site...Read More
(ABC 6 News) — Pay the ransom, and you could pay for it again. That was the warning from cybersecurity experts after Winona County paid over $128,000 following a cyberattack in January. Related: Winona County paid $128K to resolve January ransomware attack Just three months later in April, a different group came knocking which left...Read More
