By Judith Ruiz-Branch Parents and advocates across the country are demanding legislation be passed to ensure social media safeguards for children. The push comes after a landmark verdict on March 25 in which a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Meta and Google liable for a woman’s childhood social media addiction. Victoria Hinks, a bereaved parent whose...Read More

Cybercrime , Data Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime After Hacker Site Gets Resurrected, Cybercrime Group Denies All Involvement Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 3, 2026     Image: Shutterstock Drama continues to come fast and furious in BreachForums land. See Also: Gen AI Stalls, Shadow AI Rises: A CISO Concern On Monday, someone...Read More

Published On : 2025-10-09 Executive Summary In 2025, Saudi Arabia witnessed a notable rise in cybercriminal activity, particularly within the dark web landscape. Threat actors increasingly targeted key sectors, including government institutions, financial services, transportation, shipping, and healthcare, leading to a series of high-impact data breaches. Compromised data ranged from personally identifiable information (PII) and...Read More

Vea esta página en español Spot and Prevent Elder Financial Abuse Each year, older adults in this country fall victim to financial abuse, costing seniors an estimated $27 billion. Financial exploitation can take many forms such as theft of money or property by a family member, caregiver, or scammer. It is vital to take precautions...Read More

Lawmakers around the world, including in the U.S., are racing to ban minors from social media, which effectively mandates digital services check I.D.’s before any person can use their service. While the use of this blunt instrument is usually well intentioned, it will make the internet more dangerous, especially for teens. In an open letter...Read More

It’s a burning question for parents and public health officials alike: How do you keep a new generation from starting to smoke? We already know some strategies that have worked. Public health campaigns aimed at young people and consistent reinforcement from parents help keep them from striking up the dangerous habit. But first, a basic...Read More

Prompt injection and LLM jailbreaks have become the dominant security threat for generative AI applications in production. Industry audits and reports cite prompt injection affecting 73% of deployments, enabling outcomes that range from data leakage and misinformation to unauthorized tool use and system compromise. The core issue is structural: large language models cannot reliably distinguish...Read More

Phongphan/Shutterstock Hackers from North Korea have bugged software used by thousands of companies across the United States in an attempt to use stolen cryptocurrency to fund the country’s nuclear and missile programs. So far, 135 devices across 12 companies have been confirmed compromised, but more victims could...Read More

America’s Next Top (Cyber) Model Computers are now incredibly good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. While we expect this will cause cyber chaos in industry, from a U.S. government perspective, cyber organizations like the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cyber Command need access to models from all domestic AI companies. Anthropic may be the zero-day...Read More

Social media Re “Jurors find platforms harmful to children” (A1, March 26): I agree that too much social media use by children can be detrimental to their mental and physical health, but what ever happened to personal responsibility? Young children are in very vulnerable and formative stages. They need and depend on adults to steer...Read More