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
The US parent company of online learning system Canvas said Monday that it has reached a deal with a hacking group which stole student and school data on the educational platform. What’s the latest? Instructure said in a statement posted online that it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident.” The company said...Read More
OCRI also uses funds to support training cybersecurity skills for K-12 students for summer campus, afterschool cyber clubs and other events that encourage young people with an interest in cybersecurity, explains Michael. A good example is OCRI hosted its annual statewide Capture the Flag (CTF) competition back in April. The event involved 68 teams with...Read More
Guwahati. A major cyber fraud network allegedly operating under the guise of Customer Service Point (CSP) centres has been uncovered in Bajali district during an ongoing crackdown on cybercrime. Police have arrested four individuals in connection with the racket, which investigators believe has links across multiple states. Four Accused Arrested The arrested accused have been...Read More
For years, a unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency quietly turned ordinary home routers into tools of espionage. The GRU group known as APT28, the same outfit behind the 2016 DNC hack and a string of attacks on NATO targets, exploited unpatched firmware and unchanged default passwords to compromise thousands of devices across 23 US...Read More
