Texas’ new school safety law in step with DOJ’s advice | #schoolsaftey #kids #parents #children

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A scathing federal report on the Uvalde mass shooting released Thursday highlighted the miscommunication and lack of action between the hundreds of officers who showed up to Robb Elementary School on May 24, […]

First-Party Fraud Surpasses Scams to Become the Leading Form of Global Attacks | #cybercrime | #infosec

Periods of inflation and rising living costs likely contribute to an increase in opportunistic fraud against financial services, ecommerce and other sectors AI-powered fraud expected to increase in 2025 ATLANTA, May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — LexisNexis® Risk Solutions releases its annual Cybercrime Report, an analysis of over 104 billion global transactions in the LexisNexis® Digital Identity […]

Final Reading: Is Vermont’s electrical grid safe from hackers? | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

Power lines converge at switching stations for Green Mountain Power and VELCO in Williston. Seen on March 9, 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger “The exact numbers on that I don’t know because it is literally continuous.” That’s what Dan Nelson, chief technology officer for the Vermont Electric Power Company, said Tuesday when lawmakers asked […]

Library confirms ‘cybersecurity event’ caused outage – Gig Harbor Now | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Community Government The Pierce County Library system confirmed Tuesday that a “cybersecurity event” caused a multiweek outage affecting services at its branches around the county. The library system sent a letter to patrons acknowledging that “an outside entity gained unauthorized access” to its network. The library discovered the problem on April 21 and took its […]

Andy Frain notifies 100,000 after major ransomware breach | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Andy Frain Services has notified over 100,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach that occurred in October 2024. The security firm, which provides services to clients such as the NFL, NBA, and NASCAR, confirmed that notifications were sent to 100,964 people affected by the breach. Details of the compromised information […]

Hundreds of ‘online predators’ arrested by DOJ and FBI | #childpredator | #onlinepredator | #sextrafficing

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation tracked down and arrested more than 200 people accused of sex crimes involving children during a five-day operation, officials announced Wednesday. What You Need To Know The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation teamed up to track down and arrest […]

Forget software, researcher develops proof of concept ransomware that infects CPU | Technology News | #ransomware | #cybercrime

A security researcher has created a proof-of-concept ransomware that can virtually bypass all antivirus programs by altering a CPU’s microcode. This means that even if you change hardware components like the motherboard, RAM and storage or format your PC, the ransomware will still be able to run. According to The Register, Christiaan Beek, the security […]