[ad_1] Users under age 16 will no longer be able to chat with adults unless pre-approved as trusted contacts. An additional $1m will fund nationwide online safety awareness campaigns. Roblox will establish a dedicated law enforcement liaison role with a $1.5m  investment. Stay Informed Get Industry News In Your Inbox… Sign Up Today Roblox has...Read More

[ad_1] by CommonWealth Beacon staff, CommonWealth Beacon April 21, 2026 EPISODE INFO GUESTS: Ana Martínez Alemán, professor at Boston College; John Wihbey, professor at Northeastern University TWENTY-TWO YEARS after Facebook first began buzzing across college campuses around Boston — still bearing “The” at the start of its name — parent company Meta and the other...Read More

[ad_1] Getting hit with ransomware is seldom short of a nightmare situation. Finding out the call might just be coming from inside the house definitely kicks both the fear and the frustration up a notch. Three men who had previously worked in the cybersecurity industry have pleaded guilty to conspiring to deploy ransomware. Between April...Read More

[ad_1] A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum. Monterrey-based Be Prime confirmed that it was the victim of a “cybersecurity incident” on Thursday, after the criminal, who used the alias “dylanmarly,” made...Read More

[ad_1] Fortinet customers are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. One of the affected admins said that Fortinet has allegedly confirmed that the latest FortiOS version (7.4.10) didn’t fully address this authentication bypass vulnerability, which should’ve been patched in early December with the...Read More

[ad_1] The headquarters of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, DC, November 18, 2024. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Recently the Federal Trade Commission issued its annual report to Congress on protecting older adults from scams and its findings were quite...Read More

[ad_1] You can access the original Vercel blog post from here. The cloud platform Vercel has confirmed that attackers breached its internal systems, affecting a “limited subset” of customers and exposing some non-sensitive environment variables. In its official disclosure, Vercel said it was investigating the incident with external experts and had informed law enforcement. The...Read More

[ad_1] The Digital Freedom Project (DFP) announced the case had been filed in the High Court on Wednesday. Teenagers rely on social media for information and association, and a ban could hurt the nation’s most vulnerable kids – young people with disability, First Nations youth, rural and remote kids and LGBTIQ+ teenagers – the most,...Read More

[ad_1] ServiceNow has completed its $7.75 billion acquisition of Armis. The all-cash transaction, announced in December, is designed to expand ServiceNow’s platform beyond IT workflows into broader security and risk management, particularly as artificial intelligence reshapes how organizations operate and defend themselves. Since the deal was first announced, however, ServiceNow’s market value has fallen by...Read More

[ad_1] More than 81,200 employees have been laid off by 97 tech firms so far in 2026, according to layoffs.fyi, an independent real-time tracker of job losses in the tech and startup sectors across the world. The figure includes Meta’s planned downsizing of 10% of its global workforce or close to 8,000 employees, as reported...Read More