Pinto set up Football Leaks in 2015, to – in his words – expose “the hidden side of football”. Antonio Varela remembers the website’s launch like it was yesterday. The Portuguese journalist was the first person contacted by Pinto, whose real identity would not be known for years to come, and was initially known by...Read More
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The hacking group that claimed responsibility for stealing a massive trove of data from the FBI on Tuesday — including officials’...Read More
October not only marks the change of seasons but the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month as well. The city of Watsonville continues to invest in ensuring our digital safety. We continued work on a multi-year cybersecurity grant project, now approaching its final phase. We have not only improved systems to make them more secure but...Read More
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Recruitment & Reskilling Strategy SANS Institute’s Rob Lee on AI Transforming Cyber Jobs Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • September 24, 2026 Rob Lee, chief AI officer and chief of research, SANS Institute Artificial intelligence is reshaping entry-level cybersecurity work, but evidence doesn’t...Read More
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said the video platform will not join Meta’s multistate settlement over child safety allegations, telling CNN that YouTube has “invested in making sure that young people are safe on our platform… for a very long time” and plans to keep building on its own safety measures rather than adopt the...Read More
Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers have arrested convicted sex offender Eugene James Slevin, 30, and charged him with two counts of misdemeanor domestic battery. In 2015, Slevin got caught in a police sting operation designed to catch predators using the internet to meet children. He was convicted, sentenced to three years in prison and required...Read More
Key points Karen Vardanyan, a member of the Ryuk ransomware gang, has been sentenced by a US court to two years in prison plus three years’ supervised release. The Armenian national, arrested in Kyiv and extradited to the US in 2025, must pay US$1.219 million ($1.7 million) in restitution to victims. Ryuk, which Vardanyan joined...Read More
A potential paradigm shift: from Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) to agentic AI The emerging agentic AI model changes the division of labour: instead of coordinating multiple human-operated services, an attacker can increasingly delegate reconnaissance, exploitation, persistence, data processing and post-compromise activity to AI agents. Recent cases involving retail intrusions, cloud environments, Docker botnets and AI-integrated malware suggest...Read More
“Why you see the issue of paedophilia, child predation and child trafficking [become] such an issue in politics is because it is an extraordinarily easy issue to align yourself with,” says Osit. Despite being a survivor of child sexual abuse himself, he received death threats for questioning Hansen’s methods in his documentary, as well as...Read More
An expert on Friday pushed for better support for teachers’ well-being as incidents of school-related violence place additional workplace pressure on educators. “In the past, students were afraid of teachers. Today, the teachers are afraid of students,” Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines, Inc. (ACCUP) Executive Director Milabel E. Ho said...Read More
