RICHMOND, Va. — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and a great time to highlight and focus on a few things that we all can do better to protect ourselves online. Bastionpoint Technology COO Eric Clary stopped by our studio to chat about this topic and about partnering with CBS 6 all month long. For more...Read More
Customers of Trump Mobile may be among the latest victims of a ransomware attack. The group BYOD claims to have breached the Trump-branded mobile provider and leaked the personal data of 3,615 individuals, as first reported by The Register. The ransomware-as-a-service operation BYOD posted customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and order details...Read More
Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with...Read More
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 identified an Iranian state-aligned cyber threat campaign, dubbed Blinder Tunnel, targeting Iraqi critical infrastructure through recruitment-themed social engineering and custom malware. The campaign, tracked as CL-STA-1178, became active in March 2026 after attackers began staging and testing infrastructure in November 2025. Despite utilizing cloud infrastructure and code obfuscation to hide...Read More
The IKEA Kortlinje is a digital clock that costs around 20 dollars, featuring a hygrometer and thermometer. It’s another cheap appliance, you might think, were it not that the display is a white LED matrix. Best of all, with three VK1640 LED controllers, it has hacking potential. You’re in at the ground floor if you...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — FBI agents have arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to ShinyHunters, the cybercrime group believed to be behind the recent breach of FBIJobs.gov, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday. “Our agents in the field have arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group,” Patel wrote on X, calling it the latest arrest made...Read More
Japan’s government agencies are racing to improve the country’s cybersecurity measures after more than 20 major companies disclosed cyberattacks in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported Friday (Oct. 9). The companies said the attacks may have exposed tens of millions of pieces of customer data, according to the report. Japan’s ruling party convened an emergency...Read More
Jane Clementi, Mother of Tyler Clementi, Chairs Task Force Report provides new recommendations for schools, state, and federal policymakers Fighting to combat cyberbullying, improve bullying investigations, expand training for staff, incorporate mental health services into schools Ending the “bullying bureaucracy” that disincentivizes reporting or makes reporting bullying incidents difficult Above: Gottheimer with members of the...Read More
On January 14th of this year, 15 year old Phoebe Prince committed suicide in Massachusetts after relentless bullying, including cyber-bulling on facebook, twitter, and other internet places. The Massachusetts legislature is now looking at enacting a cyberbullying statute, similar to the one Erik Paulsen voted against 3 years ago. Erik Paulsen is further to the...Read More
CLEVELAND — Generally, school officials can’t control safety or behavior outside of school, even if it’s on the walk to and from the city bus stop. Three years ago, unruly after-school behavior at an RTA bus stop near Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Rhodes High School caused some businesses to close their shops temporarily. “Its been...Read More
