For more resources, visit the main Child Safety web page. As of January 1, 2021, the penalties for failing to stop for a school bus and passing a stopped school bus on the side where children enter and exit doubled. It is imperative that all motorists properly stop for school buses so all of Florida’s...Read More
The framework promotes collaboration between industry players What’s the story OpenAI has released a Child Safety Blueprint, a comprehensive strategy aimed at tackling the rising threat of AI-enabled child sexual exploitation. The move comes amid growing concerns over the potential misuse of generative AI tools in creating and distributing harmful content. The framework is designed...Read More
Big Tech may have reached “an inflection point,” said Dave Lee in Bloomberg. A Los Angeles jury last week ordered Meta and Google to pay a combined $6 million to a 20-year-old woman, known as Kaley G.M., who claimed their apps caused her depression, body shame, and trauma throughout her childhood. (ByteDance, which developed TikTok,...Read More
As AI continues to make its way into every walk of life, it seems like it has boldened and bolstered bad actors, with the FBI reporting crime complaints almost 20% higher than the previous year. Its latest analysis reports over 1,000,000 complaints in 2025. The FBI reports that, among the $21 billion lost to cybercrime...Read More
The pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claimed to have breached the phone of former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Herzi Halevi, according to a Thursday thread of posts on the group’s X/Twitter. The group claims that the hacking operation lasted years, resulting in the theft of approximately 19,000 sensitive files, including visual documentation of secret...Read More
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR’s daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s Thursday — and the Red Sox are on their first winning streak of the season. (Yes, it’s two games, but it’s not nothing.) Let’s get to...Read More
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to...Read More
FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Celerium®, a cybersecurity company focused on defense contractor protection, today announced the launch of the DIB CyberDome™, a platform purpose-built for small and mid-sized defense contractors. DIB CyberDome™ powered by Celerium Approximately 68,000 small and mid-sized defense contractors handle sensitive DoD data, including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), making...Read More
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Wednesday that access to social media would be banned for children under 15, effective from January 1, 2027. He declared the message through a video post on TikTok. “We have decided to go ahead with a difficult but necessary measure: ban access to social media for children...Read More
The Bulgarian cybersecurity specialist Angel Tsvetkov has categorically denied the accusations pointing to him as the administrator of the well-known cybercrime forum BreachForums, following the publication of various reports suggesting this. In an email sent to Digital Shield, Tsvetkov asserts that the disseminated data “is false and highly damaging,” and claims that it is based...Read More
