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Information security
fromTheregister
2 days ago

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

An internet-connected coffee machine caused a major data breach by exploiting security vulnerabilities in a corporate network.
Careers
fromSecuritymagazine
3 days ago

Beyond the Certificate: Why Real Expertise in Investigative Interviewing Comes from Practice

Training and certifications signal competence, but true effectiveness in investigative interviewing requires disciplined application and real-world experience.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

People Don't Just Update Beliefs, They Test Them

Understanding psychological change requires recognizing the role of control and mastery in actively pursuing change despite familiar limitations.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

I took off my headphones and noticed a stranger in peril

Wearing headphones isolates individuals from their surroundings, while being present enhances awareness and engagement with the world.
Austin
fromFast Company
6 days ago

This new tech could help prevent future runway crashes

New runway collision warning technology could significantly enhance aviation safety by providing pilots with immediate alerts.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
4 days ago

The Rising Tide of Executive Protection: Corporations Ramp Up Security in an Era of Heightened Threats

Companies are increasingly investing in executive protection due to rising threats, making it a strategic necessity for business continuity and resilience.
Psychology
fromFortune
1 week ago

What avalanche safety training can teach corporate boards about bad decisions | Fortune

Unanimous decisions in corporate boards may indicate group dynamics issues rather than true agreement, similar to avalanche safety training.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Child seen in sex abuse videos identified after researcher spots school badge

Internet Watch Foundation researchers identified a child sexual abuse victim after years of searching by recognizing her school uniform in images, enabling police to locate and help her.
Media industry
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Build Your Digital Detective Kit

Digital and media literacy skills are essential for all online users to navigate AI-generated content, partisan framing, and viral misinformation in today's information landscape.
California
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

'One in a million' shrapnel rain fell on California highway, military report says | Fortune

A rare manufacturing defect caused an artillery shell to detonate prematurely over Interstate 5 during a Marine Corps demonstration, scattering shrapnel on vehicles with no injuries reported.
London food
fromIrish Independent
2 weeks ago

Body of woman discovered on grounds of University Hospital Limerick

A woman in her 50s was found deceased in a car at University Hospital Limerick's emergency department parking area; gardai suspect a medical emergency rather than foul play.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

Why Your Phone Battery Dies Faster During a Public Emergency

When cell towers are damaged or overloaded, phones work harder to stay connected, using up more power. Weak signals, frequent reconnecting, and increased activity from the phone's modem are among the main reasons the battery does not last as long in these situations.
Coronavirus
UX design
fromNielsen Norman Group
3 weeks ago

Statistical Significance Isn't the Same as Practical Significance

Statistical significance indicates a result is unlikely due to chance, but does not guarantee practical importance or meaningful impact on users or business outcomes.
DevOps
fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

How AI Is Revolutionizing Disaster Recovery

AI can transform static disaster recovery runbooks into continuously validated, automatically updated procedures that keep pace with evolving infrastructure and prevent costly recovery delays.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

People who stay calm during emergencies but fall apart over minor inconveniences aren't fragile. Their system was calibrated for catastrophe, and it genuinely doesn't know how to scale down to a traffic jam or a lost set of keys. - Silicon Canals

Accumulated small daily frustrations can trigger greater stress responses than single major crises in people whose nervous systems were calibrated for survival under chronic danger or high-stakes conditions.
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

When We Assume Psychopathy Is Involved in Serial Murders

When the topic of serial murder comes up, almost reflexively, the diagnosis of psychopathic personality is given as an explanation for the offender's behavior. Question: "Why did he kill all these people?" Answer: "He's a psychopath." It seems that once it is proclaimed that the serial killer is a psychopath, everything is understood. This assertion has gained such widespread acceptance that its validity is never questioned.
Psychology
Women
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks ago

Psychology says the true crime audience is overwhelmingly women not because women are morbid but because women are the primary targets of the crimes being described - and learning the patterns isn't entertainment, it's threat intelligence dressed up as a podcast - Silicon Canals

Women's high consumption of true crime content represents threat assessment and safety education rather than morbid entertainment preference.
Law
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks ago

This Is Why Criminal Justice Needs Number Nerds - Above the Law

Data-driven evidence, not ideology, should guide criminal justice reform through incentive-based systems and rigorous testing of policies.
Information security
fromTechRepublic
2 weeks ago

Industrial Systems Under Siege: 77% of OT Environments Suffer Cyber Breaches

Industrial sectors lag in cybersecurity despite modernizing operational technologies, creating critical vulnerabilities in manufacturing, utilities, and energy infrastructure.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

An Avalanche Catastrophe as a Psychological Event

Avalanche tragedies result from social psychological factors and bad decisions rather than natural forces alone, as demonstrated by the Castle Peak ski tragedy involving nine fatalities.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

It was the time of Novell networks, RG58 cables, and bulky tower PCs. It was also a time before the telemarketer's IT department employed specialists. Carter and his two colleagues - boss Mike and part-time student Stefan - therefore handled tasks ranging from programming to support, and everything in between.
Software development
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Hope in Hostage-Taking and Kidnapping Incidents

Narratives shape how people process trauma and build resilience, while uncertainty from wrongful detention creates profound psychological strain that unfolds silently within families.
Public health
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

County health officials used ChatGPT to validate their hypothesis that a contaminated cooler caused a Salmonella outbreak at a beer tent, finding AI helpful for rapid situational awareness while acknowledging limitations requiring critical review.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Charismatic and extremely confident': how to recognise and handle a psychopath

Psychopathic and dark personality traits exist on a continuum across all social levels, from families to institutions, affecting approximately 1% of the general population at clinical levels.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

Reduce alert noise with intelligent outlier detection

New Relic Outlier Detection automatically identifies entities behaving differently from peers, enabling faster incident detection and resolution in complex distributed systems.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
3 weeks ago

Why Security Culture Metrics Matter More Than Dashboards

Traditional cybersecurity metrics create false confidence by masking hidden risks; culture metrics measuring employee engagement and responsiveness are essential for actual security effectiveness.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Third victim dies from wounds suffered in Rhode Island ice rink attack, police say

Gerald Dorgan, who had been in critical condition, has died from his injuries, Pawtucket police said Wednesday. Dorgan's daughter, Rhonda Dorgan, and grandson, Aidan Dorgan, were also killed in the shooting. Police identified the shooter as Robert Dorgan, 56, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
US news
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Science Is Learning to Explore Ground Truth

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.
Science
California
fromPadailypost
1 month ago

Guards may watch tracks to prevent deaths

Palo Alto plans to hire Orion Security guards to monitor Caltrain crossings 24/7 to prevent teen suicides under a $1.7 million city–school district funded contract.
Law
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

How Unexpected Workplace Incidents Can Disrupt Business Continuity

Unexpected workplace incidents can quickly disrupt operations, creating legal liability, staffing strain, lost momentum, and eroded trust for small and mid-sized businesses.
#conspiracy-theories
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Psychology

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Psychology

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

#incident-response
Mental health
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Implementing Meaningful De-Escalation Training in Your Security Program

De-escalation training reduces aggressive incidents and is a critical risk-mitigation strategy for modern security personnel and organizations.
Information security
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Importance of Media Psychology in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity breaches exploit human psychological vulnerabilities through media psychology principles including persuasion, attention manipulation, and cognitive biases.
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Should We Treat Political Violence as a Public Health Crisis?

Political violence in the U.S. has become routine and causes lasting psychological and public-health harms beyond immediate security threats.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

'It Was Just an Accident'... Until It Wasn't

The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family is driving at night. They hit something on the road, which turns out to be a dog, and the dog dies. The daughter in the back seat is visibly upset. The mother consoles her by saying, "It was just an accident-Dad didn't do it on purpose." Then the title appears, and the main story begins.
Film
#stalking
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Critical incident declared at city hospital trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust declared a critical incident due to unprecedented patient demand, causing severe delays and elective procedure rearrangements to protect patient safety.
Artificial intelligence
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Top researcher issues shock resignation, warns 'world is in peril'

Powerful AI advances create grave risks—including enabling bioweapon design—and corporate pressure can compel safety teams to deprioritize values and public protection.
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

First Responders Are Calling Out The "Fatal" Safety Mistakes You Should Never, Ever Make

If you are choking and are alone, try to get yourself into a high-traffic area, such as a hallway in a building or outside your house. If you pass out, you're way more likely to be found as opposed to being in a room in a building or your house. Call 911 even though you can't speak. Someone will be sent to your location by dispatch.
Public health
#homicide
Boston
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Police looking to ID pair who allegedly accessed Boston EMS bay

Man and woman allegedly used a tool to access a Boston EMS bay rear door at 2100 Dorchester Ave.; EMTs confronted them.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Compelling History of a Disease Basis for Mental Illness

Psychiatry pursued brain-disease explanations for mental disorders, driven by medicine's historical emphasis on physical disease, despite lack of definitive brain-disease findings this century.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It

Triage failures occur when decisions are made without execution evidence, causing false positives, missed threats, and higher costs; interactive sandboxes enable evidence-backed verdicts within seconds.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

The Perceptual World of Danger

Perception operates in multiple modes; under threat perception switches to an Alert mode with a distinct function, affective phenomenology, and temporal profile.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

What the data tells us about kidnapped people and how Nancy Guthrie is an outlier

Nancy Guthrie's abduction underscores the rarity and public impact of high-profile kidnappings, especially involving elderly victims and national media attention.
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Man found dead aboard Manhattan subway train: cops

The NYPD is investigating after a man was found dead aboard a Manhattan train on Sunday. According to police sources, cops from Transit District 4 were conducting an inspection of a northbound Q train just after midnight on Feb. 1, after it had pulled into the end of the line on East 96 Street and Second Avenue subway station, when they discovered a 34-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive.
New York City
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Shadow AI: The Invisible Insider Threat

Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of artificial intelligence tools outside of an organization's governance framework. In the healthcare field, clinicians and staff are increasingly using unvetted AI tools to improve efficiency, from transcription to summarization. Most of this activity is well-intentioned. But when AI adoption outpaces governance, sensitive data can quietly leave organizational control. Blocking AI outright isn't realistic. The more effective approach is to make safe, governed AI easier to use than unsafe alternatives.
Privacy professionals
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Human-related security risks rose 90% in 2025

Human-related cybersecurity incidents surged 90% in 2025, driven by email-based attacks, employee mistakes, insider threats, and increasing AI and deepfake exploitation.
Law
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Premeditated but Psychotic?

Premeditation does not preclude legal insanity; planning can stem from psychosis, and evaluations assess whether mental illness causally produced the criminal act.
Public health
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

First Responders Are Calling Out The "Fatal" Safety Mistakes You Need To Stop Making ASAP

Home medical oxygen increases fire risk; secure and store cylinders properly, avoid ignition sources, and use smoke alarms and warning signs.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Skeptics Can't See the Evidence They Demand

Skepticism can become a defended belief that biases perception and evidence evaluation rather than remaining a neutral scientific stance.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

BREAKING: Queens police-involved shooting leaves man seriously wounded, sources say amNewYork

Police shot and injured a knife-wielding man in Hillcrest, Queens after he charged officers during a standoff; he was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
US news
fromSecuritymagazine
2 months ago

This Website Exposed ICE Data - Now, It's Faced a Cyberattack

A publicly accessible ICE List database exposes PII for roughly 4,500 federal ICE agents and supervisors and recently suffered a DDoS attack reportedly originating from Russia.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Critical incident declared at hospitals by trust

Rising demand for services has led an NHS trust serving Suffolk and Essex to declare a critical incident. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust told the BBC it was facing "significant pressure", including hospitals in Ipswich and Colchester. Earlier this month, the NHS reported a rise in flu and other winter viruses after Christmas. The trust has encouraged people to seek help from pharmacists or use NHS 111 where appropriate.
Public health
Law
fromAxios
2 months ago

AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases

AI tools enable detectives to rapidly search and analyze large, multimodal evidence (calls, interviews, photos, social media) to accelerate cold and active investigations.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

4 Warning Signs to Help You Spot High-Conflict People Early

High-conflict individuals display overt or covert damaging behaviors—gaslighting, blame-shifting, and lack of empathy—that repeat across relationships and require early boundary-setting.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

If you still check all your doors twice before going to bed even though you know you already locked them, psychology says you have these 7 vigilance traits that careless people find exhausting - Silicon Canals

Hypervigilance causes repeated checking, mental rehearsal, and heightened attention to details, draining mental energy and causing exhaustion.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

10 Things a Hitman Thought Before Pulling the Trigger

Chronic fear, humiliation, and neglect can create practiced emotional patterns that numb moral resistance and train the mind to carry out violence automatically.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Explains Why Homicide Levels Are Historically Low?

Lethal violence declined in 2025, explained by a threshold-dependent model where archetype, drive, culture, and threshold must converge for violent behavior to occur.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Did She Die the Way They Say?

Psychological autopsy clarifies equivocal manners of death but lacks standardized protocols, challenging reliability; qualitative forensic mental-state assessments deserve standing.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
2 months ago

From Triage to Threat Hunts: How AI Accelerates SecOps

Agentic AI augments SOC analysts by automating triage and investigations, decoupling investigation capacity from headcount and surfacing true threats from all alerts.
Information security
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

BeyondTrust Remote Support has a critical vulnerability

Unauthenticated remote-code-execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access enables full system compromise; affected versions require urgent patching or upgrades.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Understanding Breaches Before and After They Happen: What Every Organization Should Know

Most security breaches result from neglected fundamentals—human error, unpatched systems, weak authentication, and poor network segmentation—rather than advanced, novel exploits.
Information security
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions

Exploit of disclosed vulnerabilities now causes most intrusions, with attackers weaponizing new flaws within hours while many organizations patch slowly.
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Tech support detective solved crime by checking the carpark

"A floor manager responsible for production asked me to fix his PC, which was so slow he could literally make a coffee in the time between double-clicking an icon and having the program open," Parker told On Call. The manager's PC was only a year old and ran Windows XP, a combo that at the time of this tale should have made for decent performance.
Information security
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Product Spotlight on Analytics

Taelor Sutherland is Associate Editor at Security magazine covering enterprise security, coordinating digital content, and holding a BA in English Literature from Agnes Scott College.
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