Security Management, August 2025

They’re cute. They’re creepy. And they’re probably clipped on a bag of an influencer near you. But what exactly makes Labubus such a draw for consumers, thieves, and counterfeiters alike?

Anthropic, the company behind the large language model (LLM) Claude, released a report detailing 10 case studies of how people have used the artificial intelligence platform with criminal intent.

A shooter armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol fired dozens of bullets through the church windows toward children and other worshippers sitting in the pews at morning Mass on Wednesday.

Quiet cracking is a persistent feeling of workplace unhappiness that leads to disengagement, poor performance, and an increased desire to quit.

An assessment of 10 years of U.S. power outages found a 20 percent increase in the rate of outages in both frequency and duration after 2019.

Measures in the bills include more training for first responders, increased communication between rescue agencies, stricter penalties for disaster relief fraud, and greater preparedness at summer youth camps.

Millions of college students returned to campus this week in the United States, but the semester started with panic at multiple universities after active assailant hoaxes.

Assailants smashed car windows with bricks as a car with three members of South Africa’s parliament idled at an intersection in Cape Town.

Adults in 25 countries consider the economy, terrorism, and the spread of false information online to be the major threats the world faces today, according to a new survey published Wednesday.

A New Zealand soldier is the nation’s first person to plea guilty to attempted espionage. The soldier said he tried to pass military access and information to a foreign entity.

Largely peaceful, protestors called for the government to facilitate the return of the remaining hostages in Gaza by ending the war.

Young adults without a criminal record are being recruited to cause harm as part of the violence-as-a-service process. Europol released analysis about the chain of criminal roles involved in violence-as-a-service and details on where minors fit into the process.

Canada released guidance clarifying how to comply with PIPEDA in the management and use of biometric information for businesses and government agencies. While clearly good resources for Canada-based institutions, they are excellent resource for organizations worldwide.

Although 75 percent of the 3,000 business leaders surveyed for a new report said they were comfortable working alongside AI agents, only 30 percent said they would feel comfortable taking orders from one.

U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Washington, DC, is in the grips of a crime emergency. Here’s what his order to federalize the district's police force means.

This year, wildfire conditions are exacerbated by large areas of severe drought in swaths of northwest Canada and more than 30 percent of the United States.

A security researcher alerted Axis Communications to four vulnerabilities in its products, prompting an immediate review and patch. The process shows how the disclosure process has evolved significantly in the past decade.

A U.S. soldier allegedly opened fire in the office he worked in at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Five were injured, and the assailant was quickly subdued.

Stealing someone’s information in a data breach and with the increasingly popular infostealer is sometimes just the start of multi-stage cyberattack.

State law enforcement continues the manhunt for a suspect in the deaths of four people at a Montana bar. Authorities are searching for him in the rugged and mountainous terrain of the state’s largest national forest.

Gore-related websites enable the hosting and sharing of illegal videos, primarily featuring extreme violence and graphic content. That includes content produced by terrorist entities.

Macaques in Bali steal items, not just with impunity, but for reward. Does this presage a threat to humanity?