Coimbatore: Awareness campaigns by police to sensitize the public about cybercrimes do not seem to have yielded desirable results, with an increasing number of city residents falling prey to cyber fraudsters every other day.As per the data available with the city cybercrime police, city folk have lost Rs23.91 crore to online scamsters from January 2025...Read More

Even as schools continue to report an increase in students’ behavioral problems and mental health needs, the majority of educators say they generally feel safe at school. But many say they feel less safe than they did in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every part of life, as well as every detail of schooling....Read More

A cyber attack on the UK’s legal aid systems in April was able to extract a “large amount of information” relating to applicants including criminal records. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) believes the group accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who have applied for legal aid through the government’s digital...Read More

In recent years, states have increasingly moved to formalize their cybersecurity strategies through legislation — often creating dedicated cyber forces to tackle digital threats. One example is Texas House Bill 150, which if enacted would establish the Texas Cyber Command to lead and oversee the state’s response to cyber incidents. Several other states — including...Read More

NEW DELHI, MAY 19: In a major step towards realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a ‘Cyber Secure Bharat,’ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah announced the launch of the e-Zero FIR system, aimed at enabling faster crackdown on cybercriminals and swift recovery for victims of cyber financial fraud.The new initiative,...Read More

The LCSO made tenth arrest connected to internet chat operation. Kyle James Ross Bulton also known as Kyle James Ross Ball 30 of Washington DC was arrested and charged with two counts of “use of a communication device to facilitate certain offenses involved children” This arrest concludes the undercover internet chat operation that took place...Read More

WALLOWA, OR – A Wallowa man was one of five people arrested in an undercover child predator sting conducted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office on May 15. David Vichi, 49, of Wallowa, was taken into custody after investigators say he arranged to meet someone he believed was a minor for sex. Instead, he was...Read More

Vadodara: In an instance of a criminal duping a crook, a cybercriminal broke into the house of a bootlegger in the city and claimed it as his own. Mahendra Meghwal, the alleged cybercriminal, was arrested on Sunday. He knew that the bootlegger was in jail and wouldn’t return. He showed the house as his own...Read More

    SRINAGAR: The Cybercrime Coordination Centre of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday introduced the new e-Zero FIR initiative to nab any criminal with unprecedented speed. After launching the pilot project, Union Home Minister Amit Shah wrote on X, “The MHA’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) introduced the new e-Zero...Read More

Earlier this month the National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”) hosted CYBERUK, the UK government’s flagship cybersecurity event. On 7 May the NCSC launched their report “Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027” (“Report”), whilst the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) published a new voluntary Software Security Code of Practice, (“Code”)....Read More