It has now been confirmed that a major Sony security loophole is behind an alarming number of PS5 users having their PlayStation accounts hacked. “Hack” might not even be the right word for it, as what’s happening is basically one big social engineering scam successfully carried out with the help of PS Support agents. How...Read More
On Sunday, May 3, Côte d’Ivoire’s official government website published an interview with Stéphane Kounandi Coulibaly, Director of Innovation, Startups and the Private Sector at the Ministry of Digital Transition. In the interview, he outlined the country’s ambition to become a regional innovation hub. Yet significant challenges remain, particularly in cybersecurity. In that context, We...Read More
Indiana has become the latest state to sue Roblox over claims that the popular gaming platform failed to protect its young users from child predators. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, argued that Roblox has “corralled children into their online communities, and then opened the gates wide to adult predators.” The lawsuit referenced multiple instances of...Read More
Authorities in northwestern Iowa say seven students in the Storm Lake School District have been arrested on criminal charges for sharing nude photos on their phones. Police have not named the juveniles, and The Associated Press doesn’t typically name juveniles charged with crimes. Assistant Storm Lake Police Chief Chris Cole tells the Sioux City Journal...Read More
Ransomware used to be discussed as a technical incident. An infection happened, systems were hit, the security team responded, and the recovery plan kicked in. That framing no longer holds. In today’s environment, ransomware lands as a business crisis from the very first hour. It raises questions not just about containment, but about continuity, governance,...Read More
Classes have been canceled in Delano, Minnesota, on Wednesday after the school district said it suffered a “cyber incident.” Delano Public Schools Superintendent Matt Schoen says they discovered early Tuesday morning that someone gained access to their system, printing out hundreds of pages throughout the district that just said the word “ransom” at the top,...Read More
Fraud Alert For iPhone Users: I4C Issues Advisory About Sophisticated ‘Hybrid Cybercrime’ (IANS) New Delhi: The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Union Home Ministry on Saturday issued a nationwide advisory warning iPhone users about a sophisticated “hybrid cybercrime” campaign targeting people whose devices have been lost or stolen. The advisory, released by...Read More
Hackers can weaponize a legitimately signed Lenovo driver to terminate security processes, highlighting a dangerous Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack vector that can bypass endpoint protection controls. Security researcher Jehad Abudagga has analyzed a Lenovo driver, BootRepair.sys, originally associated with the Lenovo PC Manager utility, and discovered that it can be abused to kill...Read More
AS AI starts to shape what people buy, how platforms run, and how decisions are made, gaps in accuracy, consistency, and accountability become harder to control. At the same time, cybersecurity is gaining heightened traction in the face of the growing use of AI in the Philippines and the wider push for digital transformation. Speaking...Read More
Meghan Markle delivered a powerful speech while in Geneva, Switzerland over the weekend on the impact of online bullying on children. The Duchess of Sussex attended the inauguration ceremony for The Lost Screen Memorial on Geneva’s Place des Nations, ahead of the opening of the 79th World Health Assembly. She was joined by World Health...Read More
