The National Security Agency Oct. 8 released guidance for critical infrastructure organizations that recommends adopting high-impact zero trust strategies to improve cybersecurity for operational technology. For healthcare, such technology includes tools that manage energy control, HVAC, life-safety systems, door access controls, physical security systems, alarms and medical gasses. Zero trust is a security principle that...Read More
When OpenAI released ChatGPT for Teens this past August, child safety experts Engadget spoke to at the time expressed skepticism that the new mode would adequately protect young people from harm. Now, one of those groups, Common Sense Media, has published a formal risk assessment of the software, and deemed it an “unacceptable risk” for...Read More
POTTSTOWN — A Pottstown man has been charged by state prosecutors with possessing and disseminating child sexual abuse material. Timothy Paul Hoffman, 59, of East High Street, was charged with multiple felony counts, including possessing child sexual abuse material, disseminating child sexual abuse material, and criminal use of a communication facility in connection with alleged...Read More
(Oct. 8, 2026 / JNS) Federal prosecutors charged Zohar Pinhasi, a U.S.-Israeli national who owned a Florida company that promised to help ransomware victims recover their files, with allegedly paying the attackers behind his clients’ cyberattacks and then billing the victims substantially more. Pinhasi, 50, of Hollywood, Fla., owned MonsterCloud, which marketed itself as an...Read More
By SAFIYAH RIDDLE and ERIC TUCKER LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and critical infrastructure. The...Read More
The Justice Department and FBI announced that they had seized two hacking tools connected to the Chinese government-linked group Flax Typhoon and a China-based company that the U.S. government has repeatedly taken action against, including with a new multi-agency advisory Thursday. The domain name seizures were meant to deny hackers access to the vulnerability scanning...Read More
Abstract According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Connected Cameras market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture. The global Connected Cameras Market is entering a phase of structural transformation as demand shifts from standalone surveillance hardware toward integrated IoT and...Read More
It was June 2017 when, after months of bullying, 12-year-old Mallory Grossman took her own life. “It’s a group of girls that Mallory wanted to be friends with who decided to take advantage of her eagerness to be friends and they kind of picked on her. They teased her. They isolated here. They secluded her....Read More
Authorities accuse the owner of a so-called ransomware remediation company of swindling clients victimized by ransomware attacks into paying the company inflated fees under false pretenses. Zohar Pinhasi, owner and operator of MonsterCloud, claimed he could decrypt and recover victims’ data with specialized, proprietary tools and avoid paying cybercriminals. Yet, no such tool existed, the...Read More
Nova Scotians will be safer and have a modern set of rules for provincial roads and highways when the new Traffic Safety Act takes effect on Monday, October 19. The first set of regulations under the act were released today, October 7. They prioritize protections for vulnerable road users, including extended use of child car...Read More
