In August 2024, 14-year-old Landon Payton died after suffering a medical emergency and collapsing in his middle school gymnasium in Houston, Texas. Nearly a year later, local families, lawmakers and advocates still wonder whether his life could have been saved by a functional automated external defibrillator (AED), which treats cardiac arrest by sending electric shocks...Read More
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Search for Common Ground has identified drug abuse and cybercrime as major issues fueling conflict in Delta State. The group disclosed this on Tuesday during a road show organized by the Search for Common Ground media Delta State in collaboration with National Drugs Law Enforcement agency to mark 2025 anti-drug day in...Read More
As vehicles become more software-defined, connected, and reliant on complex sensor architectures, automotive cybersecurity has become a core design consideration in modern cars. Speaking at AutoSens USA, Mike Creighton, Principal Expert for Security Architecture at BMW Group, emphasised that cybersecurity today goes beyond preventing technical failures or isolated breaches. It requires meeting a growing range...Read More
EPA King’s College Hospital was one of the affected NHS trusts, along with St Thomas’ and certain GP services The death of one person has been linked to a ransomware attack on NHS blood services at London hospitals and GP surgeries last June. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust confirmed that one patient had “died...Read More
U.S. prosecutors have charged a British national with data theft and related cybercrime offences, and are seeking to extradite the alleged hacker from France, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. Kai West, who was arrested in France in February, was part of a wider group of hackers who were active selling or giving away...Read More
A football coach, who a judge described as “clearly a sexual predator”, has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Joseph Thorpe, aged 73, was a coach with a Dublin club when he sexually assaulted the injured party on a date between September 1974 and September 1976 during a club trip to...Read More
Editor’s note: This article was updated with comment from Synnovis at 11:40 a.m. EST. A ransomware attack that disrupted blood testing across several hospitals in London last year contributed to a patient’s death, according to the National Health Service (NHS). The attack by the Qilin cybercrime group against London-based pathology service Synnovis last June severely...Read More
The INTERPOL 2025 Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report has raised alarms over a dramatic surge in cybercrime across Africa, with Western and Eastern regions reporting that over 30% of all documented criminal activities are now cyber-related. Two-thirds of INTERPOL’s African member countries surveyed confirmed that cybercrimes constitute a medium-to-high proportion of total reported offenses, highlighting the...Read More
HOUSTON – Parents need to know about new child car seat regulations coming soon. New seats will have to meet new federal safety standards to help keep kids safer in crashes. Nicole Peake, Health Education Specialist with Texas Children’s Hospital, showed us what to look for when choosing a child safety seat. The new standard,...Read More
