That’s according to new research published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, for which analysts conducted a meta-analysis of 39 existing studies involving 110,380 participants ages 12 to 18. The study found that nearly 15 percent of teens had sent a sext and approximately 27 percent received one. There were no significant sex differences in the...Read More

A phone company launched by Donald Trump’s family business is investigating a potential security flaw on its website that appears to have exposed the personal details of an estimated 27,000 people who sought to buy a gold-coloured smartphone. Trump Mobile said in a statement that it was investigating the issue – “with the assistance of...Read More

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shut down operations of a call centre in India, alleging that it defrauded hundreds of elderly people in the United States and other countries, siphoning off millions of dollars through the tech support scams. Two senior executives who operated “a business that enabled it” have admitted to not...Read More

Operation Firewall Press Conference. Photo Credit: YouTube Five-county digital sting by the regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force targets online exploitation, human trafficking, and illicit material networks. Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested 341 suspects and rescued 40 children during a massive, two-week digital sting targeting online predators across five Southern California...Read More

Earlier in May 2026, Check Point Software Technologies launched its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, an autonomous, intent-based system that uses a proprietary Network Knowledge Graph and acquired Deepchecks AI capabilities to automate complex, multi-vendor network security tasks across enterprise environments. The move highlights how Check Point is trying to turn decades of security expertise...Read More

Independent councillor Andrew Anthony plans to raise parents’ concerns at Monday’s council meeting Published May 24, 2026 Link copied! Copy failed! After reading of the serious safety concerns raised...Read More

District Attorney Summer Stephan Every day, cybercriminals use increasingly sophisticated tools to trick people into clicking on harmful links sent by email. Even businesses and government agencies with strong security systems are vulnerable if a single employee unknowingly releases a dangerous message. Here is how easily a moment of trust can lead to serious consequences....Read More

The unauthorized person gained access to information relating to approximately 22,500 individuals, DSS said in a news release on Friday. The information did not involve Social Security numbers or financial account information, according to DSS.   DSS and Gainwell Technologies, which provides account administration services for the Connecticut Medicaid program, or HUSKY, learned on March...Read More

The trucking industry has no shortage of cybersecurity reports and cargo crime statistics. What it lacks is timely, operational intelligence that fleets can actually use. When I was a driver, I would hear from other drivers that a particular truck stop had seen a rash of cargo thefts and was best avoided or, at best,...Read More

Photo by Zulfugar Karimov Around the US, a number of state legislatures have passed, or ar working to pass, various laws which would require people to “verify” their ages such that those under different ages would find themselves excluded from some or all computer and Internet access. It all started, of course, with Internet pornography....Read More