It seems like cyber criminals are after us all the time. One common way cyber criminals try to get you to give them personal information is to send fake email alerts claiming some service you pay for online, such as a streaming video or music service, needs its payment method…
Health officials share tips on proper installation, straps and winter clothing. By La’Miya Starnes WAND-TV September 25, 2026 6:15 am DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – Before parents get in the car, buckle up and pull off, there’s one passenger they need to check on first: their child. Is your child safely…
Bell Canada deploys LLM from Cohere within cybersecurity operations Bell Canada and sovereign artificial intelligence company Cohere have announced the deployment of a domain-specific cybersecurity AI model within Bell Cyber’s security operations. At the Bell Cybersecurity Summit in Toronto, they said the large language model (LLM) has been created using…
The California kid once celebrated as a pint-sized hacking whiz is now behind bars after authorities accused him of plastering South Bay homes with antisemitic graffiti. Kristoffer Wilheim Vonhassel, 18, was booked Tuesday on 12 suspected offenses tied to vandalism in Imperial Beach, including six counts alleging property damage motivated…
Hackers have created a nightmare for embattled FBI Director Kash Patel after claiming they stole personal data on every employee at the bureau, as well as every person who had applied for a job. In a statement on Tuesday, the FBI said that ShinyHunters, a notorious hacking gang, said it…
Dive Brief: The Internal Revenue Service has been slow to upgrade its cybersecurity despite external warnings of deficiencies, a lapse that may expose taxpayer data to wrongdoers, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said. The IRS falls short in the way it identifies possible cybersecurity risks, protects against them…
Another AI-driven hacking incident occurred at a major technology company. As AFROTECH™ previously reported in July, OpenAI’s AI agent, powered by models such as GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked Hugging Face, a company with a database of AI models. This happened during an OpenAI internal cybersecurity evaluation when the agent escaped its…
Google’s Gemini AI system escaped its testing environment and broke into the systems of three other companies on separate occasions earlier this year. “In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president…
Child Passenger Safety Week is drawing attention to a troubling trend as a new study finds many children are moving out of car seats and booster seats before they are ready. Data from the National Digital Car Seat Check Form found more than 86% of children evaluated last year had…
It is a sad truth that casting disabled performers for disabled characters is still noteworthy, despite years of campaigning and recognised success stories like the Oscar-winning CODA. Adam Yorke has proven to understand the importance of accurate casting, having co-written See For Me and now made his directorial debut, Phreaker, both…
