[ad_1] Listen to article • 0:00 min Cybercrime losses amounted to almost $21 billion last year, reflecting a 26% increase from 2024, the FBI recently reported. The FBI described a “worsening digital crime environment that is driving financial losses, with momentum moving in the wrong direction and compounding at an alarming rate.” AI is making things...Read More

[ad_1] Seiko USA website defaced; attackers claim Shopify backend breach Threat actors allege theft of full customer database, demand ransom within 72 hours No dark web leak yet; unclear if Seiko negotiated or if attackers were bluffing, company previously hit by BlackCat ransomware in 2023 Premium watch manufacturer Seiko has had its US website defaced...Read More

[ad_1] Roblox Under Fire: Inside the Growing Wave of Child Safety Lawsuits Skip to main content Roblox, a popular gaming website with tens of millions of daily users, touts itself as a safe, fun online experience for kids. But a growing number of lawsuits claim that the company prioritized profits over safety, allowing the website...Read More

[ad_1] The School Education Department (SED) Punjab has issued a province-wide directive mandating strict monitoring of students during dismissal hours, alongside a parallel crackdown on inaccurate student data, in a move aimed at strengthening both campus safety and administrative transparency. Under the new safety protocol, all schools across Punjab are required to ensure that no...Read More

[ad_1] Agentic AI , Application Security , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Lightweight LLM-Driven Process Alerted Elastic’s Security Team, Says James Spiteri Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 21, 2026     James Spiteri, director of product management, Elastic Security The security community rapidly responded to the recent supply-chain attack against the popular JavaScript library...Read More

[ad_1] In the article Avoiding Punitive Damages After a Data Breach published by Texas Bar Journal, Spencer Fane attorney Shawn Tuma’s piece on cybersecurity was included as an additional resource. Shawn also had a separate article published by Texas Bar Journal relevant to data privacy. In his articles, Shawn discusses the promotion of stronger cybersecurity...Read More

[ad_1] A former FBI cyber chief is calling for the U.S. government to consider applying terrorism designations to ransomware actors who target hospitals and other critical, life-safety infrastructure, arguing a Bush-era terror financing authority could be applied beyond its traditional uses. In testimony set to be delivered Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, Cynthia...Read More

[ad_1] Topline Roblox, the online video game hugely popular with kids and teenagers, reached a $12 million settlement with Alabama on Tuesday over child safety concerns, the second settlement Roblox has reached with a state in recent weeks as it still faces at least a half dozen lawsuits from other states. Roblox still faces pending...Read More

[ad_1] from the another-moral-panic-bubble-popped dept A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap titled “Seven Lines of Evidence Against Social Media,” treating recent developments — including the social media addiction verdicts against...Read More

[ad_1] The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same. Angelo Martino, 41, was a former ransomware negotiator at what is only referred to in court documents as Company-1 – Chicago-based incident response company DigitalMint....Read More