The girl's middle school in the village of Souffelweyersheim closed its doors on Thursday afternoon after a man stabbed two other girls - aged 7 and 11 - outside a nearby primary facility.
The UK's Leicester City Council was thrown into chaos last month when a crippling cyber attack forced it to shut down its IT systems and phone lines. But the ransomware attack also had a more unusual impact in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Fort Wayne Fire Department is responding to a house fire in the East Central Neighborhood Saturday morning.
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. >> More than a dozen people suffered mostly minor injuries when a tram used for tours crashed into a railing at Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles, authorities and the company said.
In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protesters, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremistsThe students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents, protest signs and Palestinian flags were gathered into trash bags by the police and thrown away. One video showed officers and university maintenance workers destroying food that had been donated to the encampment,...
In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campusesAs Jewish faculty at Columbia University, we watched with alarm as our president, Minouche Shafik, appeared before the House education and workforce committee on Wednesday to answer questions about antisemitism on our campus. While we are deeply concerned about antisemitism, we are also disturbed by the ways the hearing – like those in December, and surely those to...
If you step outside and “feel” the air a bit more than usual, you’re not wrong as we have modest levels of humidity present in our atmosphere. Daytime heating with temperatures in
The Owls battered promotion-chasing West Brom to earn their second win on the spin and stretch their end-of-season unbeaten run to five. They leapfrogged Plymouth Argyle into 20th place and with results elsewhere in the survival scrap going their way, it means a draw at Sunderland next weekend will secure second tier status from the depths of a 12-point deficit in November. Goals from Anthony Musaba, Ike Ugbo and Josh Windass did the business on an afternoon that they shut the Baggies down...
Dutch cybersecurity companies have issued warnings to thousands of companies about a global ransomware attack. The attackers, known as the Cactus Gang, are from Eastern Europe and have been active since the end of last year. The gang penetrated the companies' networks because the companies used a Qlik Sense server. The Dutch experts said they discovered that many of these servers are vulnerable to ransomware attacks. The experts work for Delft security company Fox-IT, Northwave from Utrecht,...
Attacks have been observed on a bank in Senegal, a financial services company in Chile, a tax firm in Colombia, and a government economic agency in Argentina using strains of malware that were later used in Europe and North America, writes cybersecurity firm Performanta (via Ars Technica).Read Entire Article
Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Global optics manufacturer Hoya had business operations at its headquarters and several business divisions impacted and is now facing a “No Negotiation / No Discount Policy” $10 million ransom decision to make.