The Aransas County Commissioners Court will consider contracts related to generator projects, inmate medial services and administration of the county’s indigent health care program during its regular June 8 meeting. Among the projects being considered is a $57,000 professional services agreement with Garver for engineering and design work related to backup power improvement at the...Read More
Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman has introduced a formidable legal shield against organized crime in the digital age with the promulgation of Royal Decree No. 61/2026, establishing the new Law on Combating Cybercrimes. Issued on June 1, 2026, this landmark legislation is designed to fortify national digital security, protect society from evolving cyber threats, and ensure...Read More
Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they’re asking for without bothering a human. Meta’s new AI support assistant took that brief a little too seriously. Over the past few months, attackers have been opening support chats, telling the bot they were locked out of Instagram accounts they didn’t own, and walking...Read More
Cisco on Thursday warned of a zero-day vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN product that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, is the result of insufficient validation of user-supplied input. The flaw, which has a severity score of 7.8, could allow an attacker to conduct command-injection attacks...Read More
Ransomware is not a future threat. It is a present reality. Eighty-three percent of CISOs say they are confident in their organization’s ability to recover from a ransomware attack. More than half experienced a disruptive incident in the past year. Not a single respondent recovered within 24 hours. That gap — between confidence and capability...Read More
Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik has issued a Royal Decree enacting a new Law on Combating Cybercrimes. It imposes strict penalties, including imprisonment and fines, for offences involving the misuse of information technology systems, particularly in relation to gambling activities and the creation, distribution or possession of pornographic content. Under provisions of the Cybercrime...Read More
Hackers gained access to the email account of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange and exfiltrated data for months. The attack, investigated by Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black threat-hunting team, began in October 2025, and the threat actor retained access to the compromised Outlook mailbox until March 2026. The security experts estimate...Read More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical SolarWinds Serv-U vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, warning that threat actors are actively exploiting the flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-28318, the vulnerability affects SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer software and enables unauthenticated attackers to crash the service through specially...Read More
Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit confirmed at Pwn2Own Berlin. getty Hot on the heels of three new zero-day exploits against Windows 11, confirmed on May 14, Microsoft was hacked again just 24 hours later, as a three-vulnerability chained Exchange zero-day exploit was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own elite hacking event in Berlin. Here’s what you need to...Read More
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will vote on a proposed Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that takes steps to improve the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) by requiring targeted cybersecurity improvements to protect the system from cybercriminals and our nation’s adversaries. The Further Notice...Read More
