The Defense Innovation Unit is getting after a key barrier that prevents some commercial companies from doing business with the military: accessing secure facilities before the Pentagon is ready to buy their technology. Historically, some startups have faced a Catch-22 in obtaining security clearances — they need a government contract to begin their facility clearance...Read More
Government agencies that haven’t beefed up email security could be leaving the door open to hackers, according to an international cyber security company. International Cyber Security company, Proofpoint claims 50 percent of New Zealand government agencies are exposed when it comes to email security. Senior director of Asia Pacific and Japan, Steve Moros told Checkpoint...Read More
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers have called on the American government to blacklist a set of Indian IT firms over what they describe as “more than fifteen years of targeted espionage against U.S. citizens, businesses, and the lawyers representing them.” In a letter issued Wednesday, Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse,...Read More
National Child Protection Week, 6-12 September 2026 Police across Australia and New Zealand have joined forces for a coordinated national week of action to help keep children safe, disrupt child sex offending and hold registered and post-sentence offenders to account. The activity, led through the Australia New Zealand Child Protection Working Group, brings together state,...Read More
It comes after a teacher who sexually abused students in her care was found guilty yesterday Author: Freya TaylorPublished 2 hours ago Police say they’ll be supporting the victims of a teacher who sexually abused students in her care in Southampton and Wiltshire. Bronwen James was convicted of three counts of sexual activity with a...Read More
It comes after a teacher who sexually abused students in her care was found guilty yesterday Author: Freya TaylorPublished 1 hour ago Police say they’ll be supporting the victims of a teacher who sexually abused students in her care in Southampton and Wiltshire. Bronwen James was convicted of three counts of sexual activity with a...Read More
In this Help Net Security video, Kerri Shafer-Page, VP of Incident Response at Arctic Wolf, walks through the ransomware decision tree in this video. She covers four areas where decisions need settling in advance, starting with containment. Someone has to know the network well enough to judge what pulling a system offline does to client...Read More
AI was used to develop missile guidance software and to power state-linked cyber-espionage operations, a new report reveals. Anthropic AI claims to have thwarted multiple malicious operations using its Claude models, ranging from cyber-espionage and weapons design to mass surveillance campaigns. On the conventional weapons front, the company alleges in a new report that it...Read More
Samson Mow warned the hackers that dreaming of walking away with the remaining assets unscathed is nothing but delusion. The dispute between Blockstream and the party claiming to be a white-hat hacker has taken a sharper turn, according to Samson Mow’s latest update. The hacker has accused Blockstream of serious security failures, while claiming...Read More
