Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. When Lac Du Flambeau Town Clerk Susan Schoonover began her job four years ago, the town’s technology infrastructure was in a bygone era. The 3,500-person town had no official website, and...Read More
Australia’s online safety regulator says four of the world’s most popular gaming platforms are not protecting children consistently, leaving gaps that predators can exploit. A new report by the eSafety Commission examined Steam, Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft as research shows nine in 10 Australian children aged 8 to 17 have played online games, reports BBC....Read More
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Homeland security officials blasted Fairfax County, Virginia after DHS arrested an illegal immigrant convicted of pedophilic crimes, including aggravated sexual battery of a parent with a child and illicit filming of a naked minor, following the Democrat-led municipality’s refusal to honor an ICE detainer. The dispute comes...Read More
A fast-growing protest by high-school students over long hours, teacher shortages and decaying facilities has escalated into “urban violence”, the French government has warned, as it said many schools would switch to online classes to protect teachers and pupils. The prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, called a crisis cabinet meeting on Thursday and told ministers to...Read More
HARRISBURG — Two legislative proposals, one designed to protect senior citizens from scams and the other mandating training on protective services casework for Area Agency on Aging employees, passed the Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday. State senators voted 47-2 to approve Senate Bill 738 and send it to the House for further consideration. The bill proposes...Read More
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT underscores the potential value to attackers of compromising AI software itself as these apps proliferate more and more. The bug...Read More
These days it’s getting harder and harder to spot a scam, especially for the senior members of our communities. In a new study conducted by H&P Law, Texas ranked fourth nationally for average financial losses per cybercrime targeting seniors, with victims losing an average of $42,934 per crime. Over a five-year period, Texas seniors lost...Read More
The UAE Cybersecurity Council and Veeam have formed a partnership to strengthen national cyber-resilience, develop cybersecurity skills and support trusted data, cyberrecovery and AI-ready security capabilities across the country. The UAE Cybersecurity Council and Veeam have announced a partnership aimed at strengthening cyber-resilience and developing cybersecurity capabilities across the UAE. The agreement establishes a framework...Read More
A 16-year-old is now at the center of one of the biggest ransomware takedowns of 2026. On October 1, Europol and Eurojust announced the results of Operation KillSwitch, a coordinated international law enforcement action that seized servers belonging to the KillSec ransomware-as-a-service operation and led to three provisional arrests. Investigators named the teenager as the...Read More
The prosecution in the cyberbullying trial of African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has challenged the defence’s insistence that the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) must appear in person to testify as a subpoenaed witness. The DSS is prosecuting Sowore over posts he made on X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook in...Read More
