Takeaways Financial abuse of older adults is increasingly digital and results in billions of dollars in losses annually. Digital tools such as password managers and two-factor authentication, which are often already built into phones, email, and financial accounts, can help actively prevent, detect, and respond to this abuse. The most effective protection...Read More

Bullying among teens is nothing new, but social media outlets are providing new avenues for it, often out of sight of parents and teachers. Nearly one in three American high school students has been a victim of cyberbullying, according to a recent study by the cybersecurity company McAfee. Students reported witnessing or experiencing cyberbullying on...Read More

  “A connected campus depends on several foundational layers working together: resilient wired and wireless networking; cloud and hybrid infrastructure; identity and security systems; and platforms that support learning, collaboration and research,” explains Nicole Muscanell, a researcher for EDUCAUSE. “Increasingly, institutions are also integrating IoT systems, such as smart buildings, energy management and physical safety...Read More

Solana-based Drift Protocol lost $286 million this week. Blockchain sleuths are pointing the finger at North Korean hackers. Hackers last year stole record amounts of crypto. Blockchain analysts have pointed the finger at North Korean hackers after $286 million was drained from Solana-based trading platform, Drift Protocol, on Wednesday. Speaking to DL News, security research...Read More

Japan’s Financial Services Agency has formally published guidelines to strengthen cybersecurity at crypto exchanges, saying protecting investors’ assets is its top priority. The guidelines call for an organizational response to increasingly sophisticated attacks, including private key theft and social engineering, through self-help by firms and cooperation with self-regulatory bodies and authorities. The FSA said it...Read More

Kids are consuming a lot of AI slop. And child safety advocates are getting worried. In a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neil Mohan, a coalition of national organizations and child development experts is demanding a change to YouTube policies to cut down on AI slop, including an outright ban...Read More

Two major teen sexting cases in the past two years in Upper Michigan have ended with no criminal charges filed. But under state laws, teens sending or receiving nude pictures on a cell phone can be charged like a serious child pornography crime. At Marquette Senior High School, student council leaders say they believe many...Read More

Fraudsters running cyberscam operations in Cambodia could face life in prison after the Senate approved a new law on Friday targeting criminals involved in the multi-billion-dollar illicit industry. The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running fake romantic relationship and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers — some willing, others...Read More

Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to “human error”, the company said on Tuesday. An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform GitHub....Read More

When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren’t the whole story. The Internet contains a vast trove of information — sometimes called the “Deep Web” — that isn’t indexed by search engines: information that would be useful for tracking criminals, terrorist activities, sex trafficking and the spread...Read More