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UK Resident Faces Over 3 Months For Selling Jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks
Jonathan Edge, a 29-year-old Liverpool resident, is facing three years and four months for illegally loading and distributing jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks. This is concurrent with a two-year and three-month sentence for viewing a...
Officials: Trump Not Signing Transitional Agreement Presents Cybersecurity Concern
The Trump administration still has not signed important memorandums of understanding (MOUs) such as the Presidential Transition Ethics Agreement. This MOU is legally required for presidents to sign to create peaceful transfers of...
FBI Warns About A Spike In Hacked Police Emails
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently put out an alert warning the world’s governments and police districts that there’s been a large uptick of stolen police information winding up on hacker forums.
Hackers have be...
Healthcare Under Siege: Ransomware in 2024
Ransomware attacks in the healthcare industry have been on the rise this year. Safety Detectives’ Research Team collected and analyzed data showing a significant increase in attacks in 2024 compared to 2023.
Ransomware groups i...
ExpressVPN Launches New Tool For Data Protection
ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs on the market, has unveiled a new tool called Identity Defender, to strengthen personal data security for its users. Identity Defender is currently only available to users in the US and offers a ra...
Palo Alto Networks Issues Urgent Warning Over Critical PAN-OS Vulnerability
Palo Alto Networks has issued an urgent advisory regarding a potential critical vulnerability that could allow remote code execution (RCE) through the management interface of their PAN-OS next-generation firewalls.
The cybersec...
Tri-State Bank CEO Siphons Millions to Fuel Crypto Scam
Shan Hanes, the Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO, caused a massive banking scandal after both falling victim to and helping perpetuate a massive crypto scam.
The FBI revealed that over $47 million was stolen from investors as a res...
Canada Calls for TikTok’s Canadian Businesses To Shut Down
The Canadian government ordered TikTok’s Canadian branch to be shut down, calling it a national security risk.
Officials reviewed TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and found that it had "specific national security risks” asso...
Hacker Behind Snowflake Customer Breaches Arrested in Canada
Canadian authorities have apprehended a man believed to be responsible for a series of hacks that impacted around 165 customers of Snowflake.
Canada’s Department of Justice said police arrested Alexander "Connor” Moucka on Octo...
Singtel Hacked by Chinese Group
Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached Singapore Telecommunications, the largest mobile carrier in Singapore, during the summer, according to a recent report citing 2 people familiar with the matter.
The breach was discovered...