A couple of years ago, I went to a PR’s office to demo a battle royale game that looked like RuneScape and played like Magic: the Gathering—Inferni: Hope & Fear. I had an absolute blast, but I didn’t hear anything more about the game. Now, it’s been reborn. Hack ’95 takes the bones of Inferni’s...Read More
The cybersecurity industry faces a historic workforce challenge. The global cybersecurity workforce gap exceeds 4.8 million unfilled positions, with roughly 67% of organizations actively reporting severe staffing shortages. (StationX, May, 2026) With cybersecurity jobs projected to grow 33% this decade, colleges and universities must evolve rapidly to prepare the next generation of defenders. IBM Cyber...Read More
Informed by National Priorities and Directives CESER’s RD&D program aligns with the National Cybersecurity Strategy, as well as DOE’s Multiyear Plan for Energy Sector Cybersecurity, which follows the sector’s vision of resilient energy delivery control systems designed, installed, operated, and maintained to withstand a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions. Transition to Practice CESER moves innovative...Read More
DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2026 ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The cybercrime gang added the...Read More
Universal Robots, a Danish company specializing in collaborative industrial robots, or cobots, has patched a critical vulnerability affecting one of its operating systems. Advisories published last week by the cybersecurity agency CISA and Universal Robots revealed that PolyScope 5, an operating system and GUI designed to power and control the company’s cobots, is affected by...Read More
Molly Coleman | June 5, 2026 UA Little Rock engineering graduate Colin McNerny showcases a virtual reality simulation developed through his research at the Cyberspace Operations, Research and Education (CORE) Center, where he has worked on projects focused on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. Photo by Benjamin Krain Whether he’s designing virtual reality simulations to...Read More
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday urged Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members to enhance cooperation to tackle regional security challenges such as “terrorism,” cybercrime and drugs trafficking at a special meeting of the inter-governmental body in Bishkek. Naqvi was addressing a special meeting of the Ministers of Interior and Public Security of the...Read More
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it “reached an agreement with the...Read More
What looks like Capture the Flag from the outside is actually securing and strengthening critical networks on the inside. The East Tennessee State University student cybersecurity team, Cyberbucs, participated and finished 12th in the semester-long MITRE Corporation Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) competition. This hands-on learning experience pitted ETSU’s cybersecurity team against 160 other teams,...Read More
An escaped cybercrime suspect, Asar Sesugh, has died after his suspected cult associates allegedly opened fire on operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Makurdi, Benue State. Sesugh was among 26 suspected cyber fraudsters arrested by operatives of the EFCC’s Makurdi Zonal Directorate on April 28, 2026. In a statement issued on Saturday...Read More
