MELBOURNE – An Australian appeals court on Thursday ruled against X Corp., rejecting a challenge to a safety watchdog’s demands for details on how the Elon Musk -owned company was combating widespread child exploitation material on its platform. Three federal court judges unanimously rejected X’s appeal against a federal court decision in October last year...Read More

When Qantas first revealed it had been the victim of a cyber attack that compromised the personal data of millions of its customers, many experts attributed the attack to the Scattered Spider hacking collective. You’re out of free articles for this month “A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH,...Read More

Dozens of people were arrested following a days-long operation targeting online child predators in Central Florida, state officials said Wednesday. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced 48 people face 153 charges combined after the six-day operation, coordinated by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. This is the highest number of arrests ever made during the annual operation....Read More

As the cloud reshapes enterprise IT, cybercriminals have found a new weak spot not in software vulnerabilities or brute-force hacks, but in browser-based identity theft. With modern malware, phishing kits, and infostealers targeting credentials and session tokens, the humble browser has become ground zero for the most devastating breaches of the decade. From Endpoints to...Read More

State cybersecurity support underway, leaders expect more to be needed As the City of St. Paul scrambles to recover from a massive cyberattack, the state agency in charge of supporting local governments’ cybersecurity says funds are still available to help avoid what’s unfolding in the capital city.  RELATED: St. Paul says emergency services ‘fully operational’...Read More

Study shows many companies paid multiple ransoms in the past 12 months. Victims also report that hackers have threatened to physically harm executives and file regulatory complaints against their companies. HOBOKEN, N.J., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Semperis, a provider of AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience, today published results of a global ransomware study...Read More

A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography. Scott Soucek of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested on July 24 and accused of accessing hundreds of child pornography images through a file-sharing system. Soucek isn’t just...Read More

The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, has opened the bureau’s first ever office in New Zealand, in what he said was an attempt to help counter China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific, crack down on issues including cybercrime, and strengthen protection of the Five Eyes nations. Patel, who opened the office at the US embassy...Read More

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday the arrest of 48 individuals and the filing of 153 charges during a six-day undercover operation targeting online child predators in Central Florida. The operation, led by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and supported by the Office of Statewide Prosecution, involved nine law enforcement agencies at the local,...Read More