The UN Human Rights Office has urged governments and technology companies to adopt a rights-based approach to protecting children online, warning that social media bans alone are unlikely to address the underlying causes of digital harms. New guidelines call for safer platform design, stronger accountability measures and privacy-preserving safeguards. The UN Human Rights Office has...Read More
Experts warn that digital abuse is increasingly weaponised to silence women in public life (IANS) New Delhi: In the digital world, women, especially politicians and public figures in India, are literally at the receiving end, facing cyberbullying, sexist trolling and online harassment. Experts warn that digital abuse is increasingly weaponised to silence women in public...Read More
6,635 confirmed ransomware attacks. One year. That’s 552 attacks per month on average, or ~18 attacks daily. That’s how busy the ransomware ecosystem was in 2025 — and attackers didn’t just scale activity. They evolved. New groups entered the ecosystem. Established operations accelerated. Entire industries absorbed repeated disruption. And AI-related risk made the shift from...Read More
Johnson Outdoors Inc. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend Key Highlights from the Latest SEC Filing Dividend Declaration: Johnson Outdoors Inc. (NASDAQ: JOUT) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend. Dividend Details: The dividend will be payable on July 30, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July...Read More
Security Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands Dutch police say they dismantled a large botnet this week comprising at least 17 million infected devices. After being tipped off by a researcher at the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), police began an investigation, which resulted in the discovery...Read More
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant or speculative issue for cyber security. The most advanced tools, often referred to as frontier AI, already make it easier, faster and cheaper for attackers to discover and exploit weaknesses. This means that tasks which once required specialist skills – such as writing exploit code, understanding system...Read More
As AI systems grow more capable, criminals are using them to deliver increasingly sophisticated scams. Yet even as attacks on systems grow in scope and frequency, the exploitation of human trust through social engineering remains the most common entry point to full system infiltration. “The most common attacks we see are social engineering attempts leveraging...Read More
Thousands of college students had their final exams rescheduled and their grades delayed when the Canvas platform was hacked earlier this month. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure, the company behind the learning management system used by about 40% of universities. The attack exposed student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and communications from some...Read More
The Facebook Files. The TikTok ban. Snapchat sextortion scams. Over the last few years, you’ve probably heard a lot about social media and the harms it can cause. Like the fact that these sites are designed to cater to our interests and keep us scrolling indefinitely. Or how parasocial relationships can interfere with our real-world...Read More
Concern has been expressed over new government figures showing a reduction in the proportion of charities deeming cybersecurity a high priority. The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology’s cybersecurity breaches survey for 2025-26 shows that cybersecurity was considered a high priority for senior management in six in 10 charities (60%). This is a “significant decline”...Read More
