The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is advising residents about a declared sexual predator currently reported as living in a transient location near Lake Worth Beach. According to authorities, Christopher Lee Brunson, born May 15, 1976, has registered as a transient sexual predator whose reported location is near 6th Avenue and Dixie Highway in Palm...Read More
If pathways into cybercrime are social and developmental, effective responses should be, too. This section focuses on identifying intervention points across the recruitment cycle and reviewing programmatic responses, from diversion and skills-redirection to structured rehabilitation. The cases mentioned at the beginning of this brief—Ansari, Kurtaj, and members of Scattered Spider—show a range of responses from...Read More
Often, we think of crime as a physical action — theft, assault, arson —rather than something that occurs in cyberspace. However, cybercrimes continue to increase in frequency. In 2025, the average American is more likely to be the victim of a cybercrime compared to a violent crime. For example, based on numbers from the 2021...Read More
Iran launched a notable strike against the US that didn’t involve missiles, reports the Wall Street Journal, which calls it “likely the most significant wartime cyberattack against the US in history.” Cyber group Handala—seen by US and Israeli experts as working for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence—has claimed responsibility for a hack on Stryker, a...Read More
Full enforcement of the City of Rochester’s School Bus Safety Program begins today. The program, launched Nov. 3, uses automated stop-arm cameras to capture high-definition video and images of vehicles that illegally pass school buses while stop arms are extended, and lights are flashing. With the warning period now complete, violations will result in fines mailed to registered...Read More
By Ethan York
To most people, a 3D printer is a cool piece of technology that can make toys, tools or parts in minutes. But for Hala Ali, it can be a partner in crime, and the doctoral student at Virginia Commonwealth University earned national honors recently for her work exploring one of the...Read More
Drawing on thousands of SAP production environments, CRIS introduces the first peer benchmark revealing how organizations perform across SAP security controls INGOLSTADT, Germany, March 17, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SecurityBridge, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for SAP, today announced the release of the Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS), an industry benchmarking report that analyzes how organizations...Read More
Mark Gaetani, National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia, recently read in Cybercrime Magazine that cybercrime is considered the world’s third-largest economy, after the U.S. and China, and that global cybercriminal activity has grown so large and expanded so rapidly, largely abetted by AI, that cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $12.2...Read More
A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation. “The activity demonstrated strategic operational...Read More
A convicted child predator who admitted he is still sexually attracted to young girls pleaded not guilty Monday to a new child sex abuse charge — as California Republicans escalate pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom over the parole board that nearly set him free. David Allen Funston, 64, pleaded not guilty Monday in Placer County...Read More
