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On the morning of April 28th, Portugal and Spain suffered an unprecedented power outage, affecting millions of people.The blackout unfolded throughout the day, creating chaos across the Peninsula. Trains and buses stopped, traffic lights and ATMs didn’t work, and people were stranded in metro stations and elevators.The first rumors and theories about its cause pointed to a cyberattack, which was soon dismissed and proven fake news. But, what if it wasn’t? This incident only confirms how fragile interconnected ...

Verizon reports that in 2024, third-party service exploitation was responsible for 30% of data breaches, double the amount from 2023.Additionally, Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report also found that vulnerability exploitation increased 34%, making up for 20% of the data breaches.These findings were taken from a large data set of over 22,000 security incidents and more than 12,000 confirmed data breaches.

Resemble AI has revealed an alarming surge in AI social engineering, reporting over $200 million in financial losses from deepfake incidents within the first quarter of 2025 alone.Furthermore, the Deepfake Incident Report states that 68% of those analyzed were nearly indistinguishable from authentic media, as voice cloning becomes so easy that it only requires between three and five seconds of audio to reproduce someone’s voice.The most common deepfakes are video-based (46%), followed by image (32%) and audio (22%).

Bank of America reached out to its customers via letter on April 1st to notify them that the organization had lost some documents containing sensitive information while in transit.The incident occurred on March 6th of 2025, and the documents, which are related to saving bonds, might contain the following information:This comes just three months ...

Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) released a statement on April 10th informing all of its customers that the company suffered a data breach that impacted 1.6 million people.The lab testing provider noticed suspicious activity within its network on October 27th, 2024. The company involved third-party experts to understand what happened, and in February, LSC received the initial results.

According to a report published by At-Bay, hackers used remote access tools as their initial entry point in 80% of ransomware attacks in 2024. The report is based on At-bay insurance claims from 2021 to 2024.Mid-size businesses saw a 46% increase in direct ransomware frequency and severity, with the manufacturing industry being the one hit most frequently.According to the report, this might ...

Oracle allegedly told some of its customers that it suffered a second major data breach, in which the bad actor stole old client log-in credentials, as reported by Bloomberg on April 2nd.This news comes just a month after a hacker with the handle “rose87168” was caught by CloudSEK’s XVigil selling six million records exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud’s SSO and LDAP – ...

The Business Digital Index (BDI) released by Cybernews reported that 65 of the 100 major hospitals in the U.S. and health systems have had a recent data breach.Additionally, as shared by Morningstar, the report scores the cybersecurity efforts of 79 of these organizations with a D or lower, with 30% having critical issues to be fixed.Even more scary is how 98% of the hospitals and health systems have experienced at least one data breach in ...

Safety Detectives have found a post from a self-proclaimed data enthusiast that goes by the name ThinkingOne, which included a 34GB file with more than 200 million entries of data reportedly from X users.The data includes several metadata characteristics on each account, such as ID and location, and the author of the post claims that they were able to gain access to information of 2.8 billion X users – making it the biggest social media data breach in history....

There’s no limit to what you would do to keep your child safe. You taught them how to cross the road, not to run with scissors, and to hold onto stair railings. Now, they’re sailing off into the blue unknown of the internet on a daily basis, and they need the tools to navigate it safely.This article is a practical guide to help you learn about the risks your child will be exposed to online so that you can best prepare and protect them. From creating an ‘online safety agreement’ to using ...