Where seniors are targeted by scams in 2026 Millions of older Americans are targeted by financial scams each year. One analysis published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury found $27 billion in suspected elder financial exploitation in just a 12-month period. As digital banking, payments and communication become more common, scammers have more ways […]
A Metamask billboard in Times Square. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images. Fort Worth-based blockchain firm Consensys, creator of the popular Ethereum-based MetaMask crypto wallet, accidentally hired a software developer linked to North Korea, according to internal messages obtained by Drop Site News. North Korean nationals have increasingly targeted American software companies, posing as engineers and […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The City of Cheyenne is preparing to accept over $200,000 in nonprofit funds to make safety improvements outside some area elementary schools. The city’s Finance Committee will meet today to discuss that project, among other city projects and initiatives. The committee is the Cheyenne City’s Council opportunity to workshop ordinances, resolutions and […]
Abbott disclosed on Thursday that a cyberattack hit its cancer diagnostics business. The medical device company said in a statement posted to its website that there was unauthorized access to a limited number of internal systems in its cancer diagnostics business. There was no impact on other Abbott businesses, sites or systems. Abbott’s cancer diagnostics […]
Cyber fraud has emerged as one of the most frequently reported crimes in India in recent years, particularly in the form of economic and digital offences. In April 2026, an elderly man in Mangaluru lost INR 2.07 crore after scammers posing as government investigators convinced him he was under investigation, underscoring the growing sophistication of […]
Booking photo of Jonathan Lee Thomas, 50(Fannin County Dist. Attorney’s Office) BONHAM, Texas (KXII) — A Savoy man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and failure to maintain a duty to register as a sex offender. Jonathan Lee Thomas, 50, entered the plea before […]
Production at the U.S. operations of Fairlife LLC, Coca-Cola’s dairy operation, have been temporarily suspended because of a cyberattack, Coca-Cola announced yesterday (July 16). Fairlife’s Canada production operations are not currently impacted. Coca-Cola did not share a lot of details but said the dairy unit “identified unauthorized access by a third party to a portion […]
Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov. His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport, held up a phone with […]
Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry pointing at it. […]
Christina Stathopoulos, the data and AI evangelist behind Dare to Data, continued her run sorting the week’s most impactful stories into a handful of themes we’ve been watching play out over the past month: more firms investing in the compute AI runs on, more concerns about who controls a model’s borders, and more AI-generated code […]
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