AIAC West Africa 2026, the leading regional conference and exhibition focused on Asset Integrity, Automation & Cybersecurity in the oil & gas industry, will take place from 09–10 June 2026 at The Civic Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. AIAC West Africa 2026 will bring together industry leaders, technical experts, operators, EPCs, solution providers, and technology innovators to...Read More
cyber-crime Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7 Check Point released an emergency fix on Monday for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments – but attackers, including ransomware criminals, got a month-long head start. Attacks against the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-50751, began...Read More
The NPCC National Cybercrime Team has announced the relaunch of a new and improved Police CyberAlarm (PCA) platform, marking a significant step forward in the UK’s efforts to tackle cybercrime and protect organisations from digital threats. Police CyberAlarm, a national policing capability hosted by the City of London Police, has supported businesses and organisations since...Read More
Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. The security issues are tracked as CVE-2026-34908, CVE-2026-34909, and CVE-2026-34910. They have been addressed in May and impact UniFi OS Server versions 5.0.6 and earlier. While all three flaws received the maximum...Read More
The Government Accountability Office addressed interagency collaboration shortfalls in a new report focused on the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office, a joint Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs office that is responsible for providing oversight on joint functions within the federal EHR. The GAO recommended that the DOD and VA direct...Read More
Evanston Township High School was closed Monday and Tuesday after a targeted ransomware attack disrupted the school’s computer infrastructure, internet services and other electronic systems. All summer school classes, camps and additional campus activities have been canceled for at least two days, according to a statement issued Sunday by District 202 officials on its website....Read More
Turkish authorities arrested 194 suspects in cybercrime operations conducted across 18 provinces over the past five days, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday. The operations, coordinated by the General Directorate of Security’s Cybercrime Department, the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) and public prosecutors’ offices, targeted illegal betting networks, online child exploitation and aggravated fraud schemes....Read More
The tool itself worked properly and functioned as intended; however due to a bug in a separate code path, the system did not properly verify that the email address provided by the individual requesting a password reset matched the email address associated with that user’s Instagram account. As a result, when an individual provided an...Read More
Dive Brief: The cybersecurity industry devotes a lot of attention to how AI helps hackers analyze vulnerabilities more quickly and craft better malware, but a new report argues that AI’s improved impersonation of corporate leaders is proving just as consequential. Impersonation attacks have targeted either executives or lower-level employees at more than half (53%) of...Read More
Cyber-crime Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack An Illinois high school won’t reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware attack on Sunday, June 7. Evanston Township High School (ETHS), located 14 miles north of Chicago, said it would be closed today and tomorrow, and that the closure also affected...Read More
