The Sentinel

Hong Kong's Organized Crime and Triad Bureau arrested about 150 people and dismantled a triad-linked online gambling syndicate that processed more than HK$320 million in illegal bets since July 2025, in a World Cup crackdown that seized cash, luxury goods, and the dummy bank accounts used to move the money.

A practical guide to investigating deepfakes and synthetic media: why detection is unreliable, building a provenance case with C2PA and SynthID, a verification and chain-of-custody workflow, the scale of the threat, and the India, US, UK and EU legal framework compared.

How to get evidence from the major cloud providers: the shared-responsibility boundary, identifying the account behind an IP, preservation, the AWS, Azure and Google law-enforcement portals, the US CLOUD Act and bilateral agreements, and the India, US, UK and EU framework compared.

How investigators lawfully turn an IP address or domain into an identified suspect: RIR and RDAP lookups, the timestamp and CGNAT traps, unmasking sites behind a CDN, registrar requests, VPN and Tor limits, preservation, and the India, US, UK and EU legal process compared.

India has launched the world's largest census, and its first conducted digitally: more than 1.4 billion people, around 31 lakh field staff, self-enumeration in 16 languages and satellite-based mapping. What the technology really does, how the genuine process works, and how to recognise and avoid impersonation scams.

Passwords are the weak link in almost every hack. Passkeys are the fix the whole industry is now adopting, and they cannot be phished. What they are, why they are safer, and how to start using them.

Most breaches do not start by beating a computer. They start by fooling a person. How social engineering works, the psychology it exploits, the techniques from pretexting to deepfakes, and how to defend yourself.

Phishing is the most reported cybercrime on earth and the way most breaches begin. How the lure works, the many forms it now takes, how it defeats two-factor login, and the defenses that actually stop it.

Understanding data breaches in 2026: A deep dive into the causes, the financial impact, and the complex web of mandatory notification laws for organizations.

Days before the June 11 kickoff, the FBI and security researchers say a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already live — thousands of lookalike domains, fake ticket and streaming sites, and malware. Here is how the scams work, the red flags, and how to buy and watch safely.

The FBI's IC3 logged a record $20.9 billion in losses and over a million complaints in 2025. We decode where the money goes, who loses it, and how US reporting and recovery actually work.

As of mid-2026, the Zero Trust security model has become a mandatory standard for modern IT environments, shifting from traditional perimeter defense to verification.