Leader of Online Swatting Ring Admits to Targeting over 75 Public Officials, Four Religious Institutions, and Multiple Journalists in Nationwide Bomb Threat Spree June 2, 2025. Thomasz Szabo, also known as Plank, Jonah, and Cypher, 26, of Romania, pleaded guilty today to being the leader of a years-long conspiracy that targeted victims across the United…
On November 19, Salesforce posted a security advisory on its site: Security Advisory: Unusual Activity Related to Gainsight Applications Salesforce has identified unusual activity involving Gainsight-published applications connected to Salesforce, which are installed and managed directly by customers. Our investigation indicates this activity may have enabled unauthorized access to certain customers’ Salesforce data through the……
ABB has patched building control product vulnerabilities that can expose many facilities to remote attacks. The post Researcher Says ABB Building Control Products Affected by 1,000 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team — broken TVs, missing cash, lost……
Aurora Munteanu reports: The Leipzig District Court has awarded Facebook users EUR 5000 in compensation for data protection violations from Meta’s Business Tools. This marks a significant precedent in European privacy enforcement. The German court offered the judgment on July 4th, 2025, finding that Meta Platforms Ireland Limited breached the General Data Protection Regulation through its extensive tracking…
From the Office of NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli: North Salem Central School District – Audit Follow-Up (2022M-140-F) Issued Date September 26, 2025 [read complete report – pdf] | [read complete 2022 report – pdf] Purpose of Review The purpose of our review was to assess the North Salem Central School District’s (District’s) progress, as of May……
Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting “virtually every production Node.js app” that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion with a catchable error, which frameworks have come to rely on for service availability,”…
