After months of negotiations, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the state reached a settlement with Roblox regarding children’s online safety in a press conference on April 21. The settlement includes $12.2 million and several terms of agreement. “I am extremely proud of the work of this office in securing a settlement that ensures that Alabama’s...Read More

(TNND) — California lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that could effectively ban social media accounts for kids under 16 in the nation’s most populous state. The bill, AB-1709, is specifically designed to keep children off platforms featuring “addictive features,” such as notifications, endless scrolls and autoplay that are core parts of popular social...Read More

A former ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty this week to conspiring with the ransomware actor BlackCat/ALPHV to commit ransomware attacks against US companies in 2023. The Department of Justice revealed the plea yesterday as part of its continuing campaign to take down BlackCat, a prolific ransomware actor that was previously responsible for attacks against hospitals and...Read More

ID 322298964 © Engineerjordan | Dreamstime.com In a nutshell: Three attacks in three months – Taiwan, Spain, and a US cargo airline – trace the outline of a threat the industry still treats as someone else’s problem. When HCT Logistics, one of Taiwan’s oldest logistics players and a major domestic parcel and freight operator, discovered...Read More

ServiceNow completed its acquisition of Armis, a cyber exposure management and security company, delivering a comprehensive AI-powered solution that sees, protects, and manages cyber risk across every connected asset — from OT, IoT, medical devices, physical AI to code and cloud — in real time. The acquisition extends ServiceNow’s security platform into the physical and...Read More

Published on January 21, 2026   Governance Committee Advances District 5’s Enhancing Senior Protections Council Consideration Request SAN ANTONIO (January 21, 2026) – Today, the Governance Committee advanced the Enhancing Senior Protections Council Consideration Request (CCR) filed by District 5 Councilmember Teri Castillo to the Public Safety Subcommittee on Elder Abuse. The request contains a comprehensive list of best practices that can...Read More

Microsoft out-of-band updates fixed critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation flaw Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2026 Microsoft fixed critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1), that lets attackers escalate privileges. Microsoft released out-of-band updates to address a serious ASP.NET Core vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1). Microsoft fixed the flaw...Read More

(TNND) — California lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that could effectively ban social media accounts for kids under 16 in the nation’s most populous state. The bill, AB-1709, is specifically designed to keep children off platforms featuring “addictive features,” such as notifications, endless scrolls and autoplay that are core parts of popular social...Read More

Just one month after completing its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, Google is already weaving the Israeli cloud security company deeper into its core product strategy. At its Google Cloud Next ’26 conference, the company unveiled a broad set of security updates, with Wiz positioned at the center of a push to adapt to what...Read More

Mozilla has patched a record 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox, every single one found by Mythos, an AI-powered vulnerability hunting system built by Anthropic. When a single automated tool uncovers 271 previously unknown security flaws in one of the most scrutinized browsers on the planet, the cybersecurity industry needs to reckon with what that actually...Read More