The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto as CIO Devoto will oversee enterprise IT, data and AI, and cybersecurity portfolios The 2026 Air and Space Summit will explore AI and machine learning, commercial space relay and more The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto, a technology and cybersecurity leader,...Read More
If they don’t get you online, they’ll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident...Read More
Hackers are already preparing for the midterm elections this fall, with heightened cyber threats building throughout the political spectrum, according to a new report. Check Point, a cybersecurity firm, found in the June 1 report that the midterm cycle “is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations,...Read More
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is expanding career pathway opportunities for high school students with the launch of the Computing and Cybersecurity Academy. The new program will be in the NICC Dubuque Center with a schedule designed to fit the needs of high school juniors and seniors starting in August. Students participating in the academy can earn up to 11 college credits at...Read More
Layla, a woman in her 70s, was initially hesitant to reveal her bank details to a caller pretending to be a bank official and requesting an update of her ATM debit card. She surrendered when the scammer insisted her ATM visa card would stop working if she declined to cooperate. Strangely enough, the scammer...Read More
VECT 2.0 ransomware can leave victims with files that even the attacker’s own decryptor cannot reliably restore. While researchers previously exposed a cross-platform design flaw that discards nonces for earlier parts of large files, our Windows-focused analysis shows additional implementation errors that create more recovery gaps. These errors can leave files renamed, partially encrypted, inconsistently...Read More
Another week in information security means another week where AI is in the headlines, either because someone’s used it to bypass a platform’s security, or because hackers are using AI to supercharge their attacks and target more people. In the first case, we reported that hackers used Meta’s AI chatbot to gain access to high-profile...Read More
In our first jobs in cybersecurity, at the Pentagon in 1998, Greg Rattray and I had to help the Air Force to “normalize” cyber and other information operations. But was it more “normal” to treat such operations as an aspect of intelligence or instead as warfighting in a new domain? Our answer matters little to...Read More
Cybersecurity threats are something any business should proactively defend against to avoid becoming a ransomware victim and suffering reputation and revenue loss. Key threats include third-party breaches, AI-powered scams like deepfake videos, and autonomous ransomware models based on sophisticated code. Statista reported that 63% of global businesses were affected by ransomware attacks as of 2025....Read More
The cybercrime wing of Cyberabad police arrested seven persons across multiple States in connection with seven cases detected between May 27 and June 2, officials said on Friday. Of the seven cases detected during the week, three were linked to trading frauds, two to ‘digital arrest’ scams, and two were categorised under operation crackdowns on...Read More
