On Friday, I revealed that Veritracks, an online platform used by law enforcement, parole officers and probation officers to track offenders with GPS devices such as ankle monitors, had been hacked. The data, provided to me by a hacktivist group, contained information on not only the thousands of people being monitored, but on the government...Read More
New evidence in the hacking case in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents developed by OpenAI hacked Hugging Face suggests that these rogue programs were actively targeting the popular open-source platform months earlier than previously understood. Citing independent researchers reviewing digital activity, news agency Reuters reported that it has been found that these automated agents hijacked...Read More
KETTERING — Police arrested one of the teens captured in a video on social media in a stolen Dodge Durango. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Police are seeing these types of cases more often, sending more kids to the police station. “This is the reality … this is what kids...Read More
Cybersecurity leaders are being asked to secure a rapidly changing AI environment without a corresponding expansion in resources. That tension is highlighted in the 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS Research and Artico Search. According to the report, security budgets grew by an average of 5% this year, while 45% of organizations reported...Read More
Keith’s note: according to this NASA OIG report: “The Federal Information Security Modernization Act requires the Office of Inspector General to conduct an annual evaluation of NASA’s information security program. For fiscal year 2026, we rated NASA’s information security program at a Level 3—meaning policies, procedures, and strategies were consistently implemented, but quantitative and qualitative...Read More
article Attorney General James Uthmeier LAKELAND, Fla. – A 34-year-old man faces multiple charges across Florida after being accused of child sexual abuse against his girlfriend’s 8-year-old daughter, according to Attorney General James Uthemier in a press conference in Lakeland on Wednesday. Child sexual abuse arrest What we know: Uthmeier announced that Rafiq Osborne McDonald,...Read More
The backup used to be the safety nets, but now it’s being targeted. According to global cybersecurity company Sophos, backup compromise is now attempted in over 94 per cent of ransomware incidents, and succeeds in 57 per cent of them. Attackers have also gotten faster, as another cybersecurity company Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report...Read More
(Aging Untold) — Ransomware is a type of malware that can lock access to data or a device until an attacker is paid. For older adults, families and businesses, one wrong click can create major financial and security problems. Dr. Christopher Whyte says a “zero trust” approach can help protect against cyberattacks. “So if somebody...Read More
A ransomware incident now costs an average of $5.08 million from first alert to final invoice, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. But that headline figure hides the single biggest variable in the whole equation: whether the victim had a tested business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan running before the attackers...Read More
The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida state database of vehicles and driver information. The hackers said they published the stolen data on its leak site “because the victim did not pay a ransom or cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands. The hackers said they breached the...Read More
