77 Years: The Longest 764 Sentence Yet, and a Defendant Who Claimed 2,600 Victims
Kyle William Spitze, 27, of Friendsville, Tennessee, was sentenced August 19 to 77 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material a...
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NSA and FBI Warn Adversaries Are Writing PLC Exploits With AI — and Water Utilities Are the Proving Ground
A joint advisory issued August 19 warns that actors targeting Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers are using AI-assisted development to build exp...
Declassified NSA Emails Show Reports of Chinese Election Interference Were Held Back From the President
Four pages of NSA emails dated March 13, 2020, released August 18 by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, show a deputy director declin...
He Handed Out NSF Grants While in a Chinese Talent Program. Seven Years Later, He Runs an AI Center in China.
Tao Li was an NSF program officer from 2015 to 2017 with authority over hardware, software and algorithms grants — while participating in two Chinese ...
Cities Are Cancelling Flock Contracts by the Dozen — and Signing Axon Ones
More than 90 jurisdictions have cancelled or declined to renew Flock Safety ALPR contracts since January 2025, including two Texas counties this month...
Israel's Largest Crypto Broker Was Breached Without Being Breached: 200,000 Customers Lost via an Analytics Vendor
Bits of Gold, Israel's largest regulated crypto broker, disclosed on August 16, 2026 that an attacker compromised a third-party data analytics provide...
471 Million Notices in Six Months, and 76% of Them Don't Say What Happened
The Identity Theft Resource Center's H1 2026 report counts 1,803 data compromises and 471.2 million victim notices — already more than all of 2025's 2...
RingCentral Refused to Pay. ShinyHunters Dumped 280GB and Handed Vishers a 1.6 Million-Contact Phone Book
ShinyHunters claimed RingCentral on July 27 after what the company calls a sophisticated social engineering campaign. RingCentral refused the ransom. ...
Half of Poland: 19 Million Patients Exposed in the MyDr Medical Software Breach
Polish authorities are investigating a breach at MyDr, a private software vendor connecting more than 12,000 medical facilities to Poland's national P...
The Gentlemen Took AnMed's Facebook Page to Extort It in Front of Its Own Patients
AnMed closed 83 of its 106 facilities after a July 26 malware attack. On August 11, The Gentlemen ransomware group posted an extortion note directly t...
The Ransomware Attack That Took the Doors: Winnipeg's Largest Hospital Loses Access Control, Elevators and HVAC
A ransomware attack disclosed August 10, 2026 disrupted facility-management systems at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba's largest hospital...
Three Laptops, No Exploit: Levi Strauss Files an 8-K Over a Social Engineering Attack
Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed on August 7, 2026 that attackers used social engineering to compromise three employee-issued computers and exfiltrate cor...
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