HOOVER, Ala. —A previously undisclosed Kroll review found weaknesses in Hoover’s computer systems that could have left the city vulnerable to cyberattacks. Hoover says it has since upgraded equipment and strengthened its defenses.The report was prepared in 2024 after some financial records could not be found and the city’s IT department could not recover them...Read More
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Three former J.B. Hunt employees sued the company in federal court this week claiming a data breach put the personal information of thousands of workers at risk.The suits by Wendy Parnell of Bentonville, Shileen Lange of Richmond, Va., and...Read More
Philippine authorities have secured a court warrant authorising the examination of Thomas Markle Sr’s electronic devices, including computers, mobile phones, hard drives and old videotapes, as part of an ongoing cybercrime probe in Cebu City, the Philippine National Police spokesman has said.The Duchess of Sussex’s father, 82, who has been at the centre of allegations...Read More
Some of Canberra’s most talented tech students have been shown the world of ethical hacking at re_B00TCMP – a cyber program designed to educate young people about online boundaries.The AFP-led Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (JPC3) hosted re_B00TCMP at the University of NSW’s Canberra City campus on Wednesday (28 October, 2026).The re_B00TCMP program encourages students...Read More
Many teens consider online bullying to be worse than face-to-face bullying, a survey of teenagers has found.After all, cyberbullying can happen around the clock, it’s relentless, and it’s driven by crowd behaviour – in fact, you can consider it a horrible manifestation of crowd-sourcing.The survey of 4720 teenagers around the world found that people –...Read More
Many teens consider online bullying to be worse than face-to-face bullying, a survey of teenagers has found.After all, cyberbullying can happen around the clock, it’s relentless, and it’s driven by crowd behaviour – in fact, you can consider it a horrible manifestation of crowd-sourcing.The survey of 4720 teenagers around the world found that people –...Read More
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta launched two new artificial intelligence-powered apps this week as the company ramps up its internal experiments by using its own internal AI models to generate app code faster. One of the new apps, called Waddle World,...Read More
A cybersecurity researcher reported finding an exposed database tied to a civic engagement platform used by local governments that contained about 42 million documents and nearly 450,000 files with information collected by cities and their residents. The researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, published a report on ExpressVPN on Thursday that claimed a publicly accessible database associated with...Read More
A proficient administrator lost files to ransomware after exposing a Synology DS918+ web interface to the internet and leaving firmware 18 months behind on security updates. The attacker exploited CVE-2024-10441, a remote code execution vulnerability disclosed a year and a half prior.Reddit user NakamuraHwang lost files to ransomware on a Synology DS918+ NAS after exposing...Read More
Lucknow: Girls accounted for 75% of the 24 children rescued in 22 cybercrime cases registered across Uttar Pradesh, police records show. Of the rescued minors, 18 were girls, and 10 children were aged 10 years or below, pointing to a pattern of online sexual exploitation affecting both adolescents and very young children.The cases were reported...Read More
