Most ransomware operators don’t bother trying to break into a backup system. They go after whoever already has the keys. That’s not a new problem. In the 1870s, bank robbers found the same shortcut. You didn’t necessarily have to defeat a vault. You needed the person who knew how to…
The backup used to be the safety nets, but now it’s being targeted. According to global cybersecurity company Sophos, backup compromise is now attempted in over 94 per cent of ransomware incidents, and succeeds in 57 per cent of them. Attackers have also gotten faster, as another cybersecurity…
Cybersecurity has always been about control: controlling access, controlling risk, controlling data flows and controlling the blast radius when something goes wrong. But this week has shown how quickly that control layer is being redrawn. In the space of a few days, Spain’s data protection authority reported its first personal…
Young people are unhappy, and many observers think they know what is to blame: technology. The most influential argument in this direction comes from the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his 2024 book The Anxious Generation, Haidt argued that giving young people smartphones in the early 2010s “rewired” childhood, which led…
The debate has been given fresh momentum by the government’s Growing Up in the Online World consultation updated last month, one of the largest on children’s online safety ever in the UK. More than 116,000 parents, children, teachers and experts took part, with nine in 10 parents supporting restrictions on…
When Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, settled a lawsuit a few weeks ago, the tech giant agreed to pay more than $17 billion to a collection of 47 states, including Kansas. Over the next 10 years, Kansas will receive an estimated $134 million to address the damages…
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A 22-year-old Kissimmee man was arrested on 10 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material following a Florida Department of Law Enforcement cybercrime investigation, authorities said. FDLE agents arrested Jordi David Nunez-Junco after executing a search warrant at a Kissimmee home on Sept. 10, according to…
The nationwide debate over social media’s impact on our nation’s youth continues at every level. It’s gone from the smallest of homes to the highest courts and could boomerang all the way back. A new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in California looks to regulate how kids interact with…
“Crime prevention begins with strong partnerships between police and the communities they serve,” Additional Inspector General of Police (Crime and Operations) Khondoker Rafiqul Islam told BSS. “Police cannot fight crime alone; community participation is essential to lasting public safety,” he added. According to a recent progress report of the Home…
AI has fundamentally changed what a cyberattack looks like. A Forbes article reports that tools, speed and sophistication that once required nation-state resources are now available to anyone with a credit card and a cloud account. At the same time, the businesses MSPs (managed service providers) and MSSPs (managed security service providers)…
