Cybersecurity budgets are rising, but AI is also exposing gaps that many organizations have not yet closed. PwC’s 2027 Global Digital Trust Insights Survey found that 84% of security and finance leaders expect cybersecurity spending to increase over the next 12 months, up from 78% a year earlier. AI is a major driver, with 58%...Read More
Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University physician convicted of sexually abusing girls and young women, is among more than 20,000 people removed from Michigan’s sex offender registrySex Offender Registry and Sex Offender Registration LawsA sex offender registry is a government system that requires people convicted of specified sex offenses to provide...Read More
The US Senate race in Kansas is taking a nasty turn after incumbent Republican Roger Marshall’s campaign released a new ad accusing Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton of failing to report a pedophile who once worked at Hamilton’s church to law enforcement. Hamilton, who has served as lead pastor at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood...Read More
An Iranian national indicted in the US for hacking hundreds of organizations was extradited from Montenegro this week. Acting on an arrest warrant issued by the FBI, Montenegrin authorities arrested the individual, a dual citizen of Turkey and Iran, on June 25. The suspect is accused of involvement in numerous cyberattacks against US organizations starting...Read More
Digital forensics firm Asymmetric Security reported on Thursday that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents obscured their digital footprints while harvesting data from 55 government and institutional websites, erasing records and creating private accounts to prevent external auditors from tracing their activities. Investigation Details The investigation revealed that the agents pulled data from websites belonging to the...Read More
The Tech Buzz may earn a commission when you buy through links on this page. This never affects which products we recommend or what we say about them. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. International law enforcement is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence’s dark side. An Interpol executive warned that AI...Read More
The prosecution in the trial of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, on Friday faulted the insistence by the defence that the director-general of the State Security Service, Tosin Ajayi, must appear in person to testify as a defence witness. The prosecution counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde, argued that it was wrong for Mr Sowore’s lawyer, Adeyinka...Read More
Cybersecurity Awareness Month returns in October with a CISA campaign themed “Securing the Next 250.” For laboratory managers, the occasion raises a practical question: how would work change if staff could no longer access an instrument, a LIMS platform, or the data needed to interpret results? Answering that question gives cybersecurity planning an operational purpose....Read More
eSafety calls on gaming platforms to strengthen child safety measures Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has called on major online gaming providers to strengthen protections against child sexual exploitation and violent extremist content, following a transparency report that found significant differences in safety measures across Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft and Steam. The report, Playing it safe: how online...Read More
Critical infrastructure organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries are being attacked by a Chinese group using a ransomware strain called Warlock. The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Symantec Threat Hunter Team. Symantec researchers said the victims include a water utility, a telecommunications provider, a...Read More
