Child safety seat inspection. PC: Maui Police Department. The Maui Police Department, in collaboration with the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition, the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will host a child safety seat inspection event within the Kīhei Police Station parking lot on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, between 9 a.m....Read More
Hundreds of alleged criminals missing in Chicago from ankle monitor program Chicago faces a crisis as hundreds of alleged criminals, released on electronic ankle monitors, are now missing. Mike Tobin reports on the Cook County pre-trial program where 246 participants are AWOL, including individuals charged with murder, sexual assault and aggravated battery. Former police chief...Read More
“Why are we here?” is the first question. “I have videos I have received, explicit videos that you sent to these children. Do you have any ideas of what them videos are?” “Probably of me being naked.” “And what else?” “Probably playing with myself.” “And what else?” “Probably ejaculating.” “Explain to me why.” “I think...Read More
September 23, 2026 MANILA – An attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has given two online platforms a deadline in establishing their presence in the country and coordinating with authorities, as the government tries to determine the extent of social media’s influence following a third school shooting in three months....Read More
Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens, an AI‑enabled subscription platform linked to more than 12,000 compromised email inboxes. Microsoft announced on 22 September 2026 that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), working with industry partners and law-enforcement authorities, had disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription-based cybercrime service that used artificial intelligence across multiple stages of the attack chain. According to Microsoft,...Read More
The cybercrime ecosystem has always been competitive, but recent events suggest that competition between ransomware and data-extortion groups is taking a more aggressive turn. A striking example emerged in September third week of 2026, when the ShinyHunters cybercrime group claimed to have breached the infrastructure of rival ransomware group Clop and taken control of its...Read More
When Nik Cubrilovic saw the news of the OpenAI Medicare hack this week, he knew the tech giant was unlikely to suffer any legal consequences. Not like the ones he faced. Almost a decade earlier, Mr Cubrilovic was slapped with more than 50 charges — some carrying a possible jail time of up to a...Read More
A security researcher discovered a vulnerability in Flock’s website that gave him an access token without needing login credentials. The researcher used the information gleaned to build a map of Flock cameras and share it on a website he named the Flock Surveillance Map, which now lists the location of 335,701 cameras. Flock has now...Read More
The FBI confirmed on September 26, 2026 that it is dealing with what the bureau called a “cybersecurity incident,” following claims from the extortion group ShinyHunters that it stole more than two terabytes of employee data from the FBI’s own jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov. The confirmation, first reported by NewsNation and picked up by outlets including...Read More
New York — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismissed the idea of joining Meta’s multistate settlement agreement around child safety, saying the video platform already has measures in place to protect young users. “We have invested in making sure that young people are safe on our platform… for a very long time,” Mohan told CNN. “What you...Read More
