A study from USC researchers provides new understanding of the relationship between “sexting” and sexual behavior in early adolescence, contributing to an ongoing national conversation about whether sexually explicit text messaging is a risk behavior or just a technologically-enabled extension of normal teenage flirtation. The latest research, published today in the July 2014 issue of...Read More
“The World In 2030,” a Bank of America research paper, cites Cybersecurity Ventures, whose analysis showed that cybercrime — such as hacking, fake videos, and stealing personal data — was expected to cost the world $10.5 trillion by 2025, making it the world’s third largest economy behind the U.S. and China. And with the exponential rise...Read More
More than 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses, as well as other identity documents, have reportedly become available for purchase on the dark web for a limited time. According to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the service was called Nexus, and although it’s no longer available at the time of writing, it claimed to have...Read More
Ransomware’s impact isn’t theoretical—it’s immediately quantifiable. And yet, new research commissioned by Halcyon exposes a dangerous disconnect among security leaders: Ransomware is still being treated like any other cybersecurity threat. This disconnect is not for lack of expertise or awareness, it’s a lack of tools purpose-built for ransomware. Inside the Report The Confidence...Read More
A credential-based attack is an intrusion in which the attacker authenticates with a legitimate, stolen username and password rather than exploiting a software flaw — which means there is no malware signature, no exploit, and no vulnerability to patch at the point of entry. To every identity, network, and endpoint tool watching the login, the...Read More
The FBI and the Department of Justice have seized domains linked to a yearslong effort by China-nexus hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure providers and government agencies for espionage and other activity. Authorities said a state-backed group known as QTFY operated hacking platforms known as QScan and QTRouter in an operation that went after various...Read More
Swati KhandelwalSep 02, 2026Malware / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in...Read More
By Eddie Beaver ( September 2, 2026, 1:53 PM BST) — A former director at a cybersecurity company has sued his business partners, alleging they ousted him to force him to sell his shares at half their fair value and derail a potential technology sale to Mastercard…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A...Read More
Energy, manufacturing and utility operators are wiring decades-old plants into modern networks just as attackers gain machine-speed tooling, and critical infrastructure cybersecurity is where that mismatch bites hardest. Awareness of the risk is widespread, but action in many sectors is still lagging. That gap is now the central problem for security leaders at industrial companies,...Read More
Paris, France – May 22, 2026: View of a smartphone screen showing a Meta apps folder including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, and Meta AI. Credit: Shutterstock Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, on Wednesday agreed to pay 47 states, the District of Columbia, and a handful of U.S. territories, up to $17.1 billion...Read More
