[ad_1] New polling results show strong support among voters for legislation restricting social media use among kids and teens. The Bay State Poll released Thursday and conducted by The University of New Hampshire Survey Center found 72% of respondents either somewhat or strongly support legislation banning social media use for all kids under 14 and...Read More

[ad_1] However, there are members of the Scattered Spider group still active: last year it branched out and attacked a number of other businesses, including Marks and Spencer, Co-op and Harrods – although there were other arrests following these attacks. The group works by sending SMS phishing attacks to the mobile phones of employees of...Read More

[ad_1] A new survey by Truecaller finds that 77% of Asian Americans fear AI-powered scams, with nearly one in three already falling victim to deepfake voice fraud, including immigration-based scams. Recently, Truecaller—a platform at the forefront of combating digital fraud—conducted its 2026 AI and Fraud Scams Survey. The study revealed key insights into how AI...Read More

[ad_1] A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions. The flaw is identified as CVE-2026-41651 and received a medium-severity rating of 8.8 out of 10. It has persisted for almost 12 years in the PackageKit daemon, a background service that...Read More

[ad_1] Turkey has become the latest nation to introduce a social-media ban for younger teens after lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would effectively restrict users under 15 years of age from accessing YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X and other digital media platforms. In addition to banning social-media access for users under 15, the bill...Read More

[ad_1] Professionally trained K-9s will become part of the security team at the Detroit Assembly Complex – Mack, a Stellantis spokesperson said.  “The highly trained dogs, contracted through a professional K9 service, along with their handlers, will work alongside plant teams as part of ongoing efforts to support workplace safety and employee well-being,” the company...Read More

[ad_1] The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) does not yet have access to Anthropic’s bug-hunting AI model, Claude Mythos, even though other government agencies do, Axios reported earlier this week. As if that weren’t a big enough slap in the face for the national cyber-defense agency, the list of those who do have...Read More

[ad_1] Data privacy and security are often framed as organizational requirements, and as such include discussions of ROI, staffing, compliance, and so on. However, the obligations enterprises and agencies face in protecting data extend beyond liability, because the data they protect often represents someone’s life and well-being.  As a result, duty of care is evolving...Read More

[ad_1] Two U.S. banks say they are investigating data breaches targeting their customers’ information. “We have been managing an incident involving data extracted from a third party vendor,” Citizens Bank said in a statement Tuesday (April 21). “For Citizens, most of this was masked test data, although a limited set of information for a small number of customers was...Read More

[ad_1] Oil City News publishes letters, cartoons and opinions as a public service. The content does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Oil City News or its employees. Letters to the editor can be submitted by following the link at our opinion section. You may have noticed blue pinwheels around town: in front of government buildings,...Read More