Teen Chat and Chat Avenue are under scrutiny for allegedly failing to protect children from online grooming through open messaging and chat features. The UK’s online safety regime has entered a more confrontational phase, with Ofcom opening new investigations into Telegram and two chat platforms over suspected failures to protect children from serious harm. The...Read More

KOOTENAI COUNTY — A man convicted in Kootenai County’s largest child pornography case will face a parole hearing next week, prompting his own daughter to campaign for his continued imprisonment. Edmund Bergeman, who has served 20 years in an Arizona prison, is scheduled for a parole hearing on May 1. The Twin Lakes man pleaded...Read More

BY FBI COLUMBIA OFFICE LEXINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2025 annual report. The 2025 Internet Crime Report combines information from more than one million complaints of suspected internet crime and details reported losses exceeding $20 billion—a 26% increase in losses from 2024.  South Carolina ranked 21st...Read More

Drift Protocol and KelpDAO were attacked, suffering losses of approximately $286 million and $290 million, respectively; the attackers targeted peripheral infrastructure of the protocols. By Oluwapelumi Adejumo Translated by Chopper, Foresight News In less than three weeks, a North Korea–linked hacking group stole over $500 million from cryptocurrency DeFi platforms. Their attack vectors have shifted...Read More

Adolescents who spend either a lot of time — or no time at all — on social media may be more likely to report poorer wellbeing, according to a new Australian study. University of Adelaide researchers tracked more than 100,000 students from Year 4 to Year 12 over three years, finding that the link between...Read More

Check Point is integrating its AI Defence Plane with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to help secure autonomous AI agents used by enterprises. The integration adds governance and runtime protection to Google Cloud’s agent platform alongside the control functions the cloud provider already offers. Businesses are increasingly testing and deploying AI systems that do...Read More

Firefox uses a defense-in-depth strategy, with internal red teams applying multiple layers of “overlapping defenses” and automated analysis techniques, he explained. Teams run each website in a separate process sandbox. However, no layer is impenetrable, Holley noted, and attackers combine bugs in the rendering code with bugs in the sandboxes in an attempt to gain...Read More

Anthropic has ruled out releasing its latest AI model, Mythos, to the public because of the threat it poses to global cybersecurity. However, the US tech startup behind the Claude chatbot confirmed on Wednesday it was investigating a report that a group of people had gained unauthorised access to Mythos. The alleged incident has raised...Read More

Claroty has appointed John Ryan as Vice President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, putting him in charge of the company’s global partner programme. Ryan joins the cyber-physical systems security company after holding senior channel and alliance roles across the cybersecurity sector. His previous employers include Radiant Logic, Orca Security, Illumio, Guardicore, Rapid7 and ForeScout Technologies. At...Read More

Advertisement Friday May 8th from 11am to 1pm the Cortland County Health Department will be holding a Free Child Safety Seat Check Event at the Great Assembly of God (175 Port Watson Street, Cortland) No registration is required and walk-ins are encouraged! Advertisement Child Passenger Technicians will be on site to inspect car seats for...Read More