When security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry decided to try to hack into the backend of McDonald’s AI chatbot last Monday, June 30, they didn’t anticipate just how easy it would be. McDonald’s uses the AI chatbot to hire new employees, and in just half an hour, they had “full access to virtually every […]
Camden Council is reminding residents that child safety is everyone’s business, after recently forming a Child Safe Working Group. The NSW Government introduced the Child Safe Scheme following the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which ran from 2012 to 2017. Under this Scheme, the Child Safe Standards were formed […]
The government is investing £1.3 million to improve security at 500 small companies operating in sensitive sectors such as defence, artificial intelligence and life sciences to prevent their ideas from being stolen by competitors or malicious state-backed actors. Peter Kyle, the science secretary, has allocated up to £2,500 in grants per company to help pay […]
Global IT distribution giant Ingram Micro has confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack after a days-long service outage that disrupted its core operations, including order processing and communications. The attackers have been identified as the SafePay ransomware gang, a rapidly growing cybercriminal group active since late 2024. The cyberattack began in the early hours of […]
Ingram Micro, a U.S. technology distributing giant and managed services provider, said on Monday a ransomware attack is the cause of an ongoing outage at the company. The hack began on Thursday, after which the company’s website and much of its network went down. Late on Saturday, the company said in a brief statement that […]
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Anthony D. Morales, 31, of Round Lake Park. Detectives have arrested a registered sex offender who is accused of soliciting multiple children online for sex in McHenry County in exchange for money and alcohol. The Algonquin Police Department received a report on June 21 of an adult male who had engaged in inappropriate contact with […]
The UK Government put forward a consultation to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware demands. An enacted ban would prohibit central and local government organizations, as well as other bodies considered Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), from making payments to a threat actor in the event of a ransomware attack. One pro-ban theory is that […]
28 May Cybercrime To Cost The World $12.2 Trillion Annually By 2031 Posted at 14:49h in Blogs by Taylor Fox – David Braue, Editor-at-Large Melbourne, Australia – May 28, 2025 Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion USD in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime […]
According to data from ESET, in the first half of 2025, Poland ranked first globally in the number of detected ransomware attacks, accounting for 6% of all global incidents—surpassing even the United States. Ransomware, a type of malicious software that encrypts data and demands payment for its release, has long been one of the […]
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