Photo Credit: GOSL THE University of the West Indies (The UWI) is investigating a potential cyber security issue involving ransom ware claims, but says there is currently no confirmed evidence that its systems or data have been compromised. In a statement issued Wednesday, August 19, the university said it had received an alert regarding the...Read More

Democratic senator Ron Wyden is asking the U.S. government to review how federal law enforcement agencies use hacking tools and spyware against Americans, citing a lack of transparency into how often or for what reasons these tools are deployed.   On Friday, Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which audits the...Read More

For years, cybersecurity experts have warned that America’s critical infrastructure would eventually become a preferred target for nation-state hackers. That warning is no longer hypothetical. Recent attacks against dozens of U.S. water and wastewater utilities demonstrate a growing willingness by sophisticated threat actors to move beyond traditional information technology (IT) networks and directly target operational...Read More

Siddartha Shakya believes that there’s more to cybersecurity than just hacking. The George Mason University Bachelor’s to Accelerated Master’s Applied Science student spent his summer interning with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and now he’s even more confident in the importance of balancing humans and machines. Photo provided After graduating from high school, Shakya...Read More

“What matters is that police response is swift but that every step is taken carefully, so cases are strong and the public is protected,” Nartatez added. The operations were carried out by the PNP ACG’s operating units and regional teams nationwide. The PNP said the operations are part of its Focused Agenda, particularly the Enhanced...Read More

A decades-old surveillance practice is facing renewed scrutiny as lawmakers question what happens behind closed doors when investigators hack devices. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine how federal law enforcement agencies use hacking tools and spyware in investigations involving Americans. In his view, the public lacks...Read More

Microsoft issued a patch for a critical remote-code execution vulnerability in Entra ID has been discovered by its own security researchers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-69836, is related to deserialization of untrusted data and has a severity score of 10 out of 10, the highest score possible.  In a bulletin from the Microsoft Security Response...Read More

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems.  The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident in a letter...Read More

Jay Edwards Born and raised in Northwest NJ, Jay has a degree in Communications and has had a life-long interest in local radio and various styles of music. Jay has held numerous jobs over the years such as stunt car driver, bartender, voice-over artist, traffic reporter (award winning), NY Yankee maintenance crewmember and peanut farm...Read More

Add the employees at the Agriculture Department’s Rural Development Agency to the growing list of successful feds who have won grievances before an arbitrator after losing their remote work and telework rights. Arbitrator Margaret Donaghy ruled Wednesday in favor of RDA employees represented by the American Federation of State, City and Municipal Employees. The union...Read More