Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › A former employee’s brazen cyberattack on his former company’s critical infrastructure exposes the growing threat of insider threats to industrial operations.Kansas City Today A former employee of a major U.S. industrial company has pleaded guilty to hacking the company’s computer network and extorting employees for a $750,000...Read More
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Thursday approved legislation designed to strengthen the state’s cybersecurity and grow the authority of its chief information security officer, a role currently held by longtime state IT staffer Leroy Amos. The bill directs the state’s Cybersecurity Office, led by Amos, within the state’s Office of Technology, to standardize the...Read More
Wizz, the online social chat app that matches kids based on their age group, says it puts safety at the heart of its platform to prevent bad things from happening to kids. But even for an app that concentrates its efforts on providing age-appropriate content and contacts, the shifting regulatory landscape can be a daunting...Read More
And a federal bill that passed the House in May seeks to up the ante for punishment even further. Under the Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act of 2017, introduced by Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), teens caught sexting could be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison. “I, for one, believe we have a moral obligation,...Read More
Fraudsters running cyberscam operations in Cambodia could face life in prison after the Senate approved a new law on Friday targeting criminals involved in the multi-billion-dollar illicit industry. The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running fake romantic relationship and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers — some willing, others...Read More
In today’s data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the World Wide Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. But as much as 89 to 96 percent of the content on the...Read More
FILE: Exterior of the Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse in downtown San Diego. (FOX 5/KUSI) SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A man pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in San Diego on Thursday to a multi-million dollar senior fraud and money laundering scheme. Officials said Jiandong Chen, aka “Little Tiger,” participated in a $27...Read More
A California Assembly member representing Long Beach is introducing bills to keep kids under 16 off social media platforms and more tightly regulate companies that operate them after two juries recently ordered Meta and Google to pay hundreds of millions for harming children who sued them alleging their platforms are addictive and unsafe. Democratic Assemblymember...Read More
Events , Machine Identities , RSAC Conference P0 Security’s Duggal and Dányi on practical access controls for AI agents Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • March 28, 2026 Gergely Dányi, co-founder and CTO, P0 Security, and Neha Duggal, CPO, P0 Security Legacy privileged access management was built for humans, and artificial intelligence agents play by...Read More
Only days after calling April stacked in our monthly update, things have gotten even wilder as Morbid Metal is now launching April 8. Published by Ubisoft and developed by German studio Screen Juice, the game is heading into Early Access with three playable characters, two biomes, and around 10 hours of main-path content. An initial...Read More
