SUPERIOR, Wis. – Charges allege an unnamed citizen group from Illinois reported the man to Superior Police, after catching him in an online predator sting. On Tuesday, 62-year-old Joey Edward Scott was charged in a Douglas County courtroom with four counts of possession of child pornography. Superior Police originally responded to Scott’s apartment on Apr. […]
Who is the ToyMaker? getty A lot of effort goes into tracking and reporting on the ransomware threat and those who launch the attacks. Given the sheer number of ransomware attacks and the money that can be made by those with no moral compass, this isn’t exactly surprising. No surprise, either, that some are willing […]
THE Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has intensified its crackdown on criminal networks, particularly those involved in cybercrime, as it pursues over 40 active cases currently before the courts. The announcement came during the latest monthly National Security Council meeting held last Thursday, where national security officials reviewed efforts to maintain recent gains […]
New Jersey has sued the social gaming platform Discord for allegedly failing to adequately protect underage users from predators, the first state to do so. The heavily redacted civil suit, filed Thursday, accuses Discord of violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by making it easy for children to create an account and by not […]
US-based media conglomerate Urban One has confirmed a significant data breach that compromised sensitive personal information of hundreds of individuals. The company disclosed that the incident, discovered in March 2025, involved unauthorized access to its network resulting in the exfiltration of employee data. Details compromised include names, Social Security numbers, direct deposit details, W-2 tax […]
Home > Fintech > The ‘kudzu’ of cybercrime: APAC businesses face alarming surge in system intrusions Asia Pacific businesses have been warned of a sharp increase in data breach incidents, as an increasing dependence on third-party partners inevitably increases organisations’ perimeter of vulnerability. In a newly released report by telecommunications and information security services company […]
The communications watchdog has been accused of backing big tech over the safety of under-18s after the children’s commissioner for England criticised new measures for tackling online harms. Rachel de Souza said she warned Ofcom last year that its proposals for protecting children under the Online Safety Act were too weak. New codes of practice […]
New cybersecurity legislation is coming thick and fast. And for good reason: cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, systems are becoming more connected, and geopolitical relationships are becoming more fraught. One of the most recent bipartisan legislations – the US Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2025 – is designed to modernize cybersecurity standards in the […]
For nearly two weeks, Western New Mexico University’s website and digital systems have been held hostage by what officials in internal emails have called the efforts of a “foreign hacking group.” The university has not publicly addressed the severity of the attack, but documentation obtained by Searchlight New Mexico indicates that an infamous Russian-speaking hacking […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – South Carolina’s attorney general is calling on state lawmakers to pass a bill he says will help keep more kids safe from online predators. Alan Wilson, the state’s top prosecutor, said S.74 is commonsense legislation that would cut administrative red tape to ultimately protect children. “It makes it easier, it makes […]
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