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Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 38 minutes ago Preventing cyberbullying image Authorities must enforce existing cybercrime laws to track and prosecute individuals distributing videos of sexual violence against women online, activist Edmond Yakani says. The Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmond Yakani, requested the intervention of the National Communication Authority...Read More
The astounding growth of the hair-transplant industry in Turkey is not just a medical tourism success story; it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment and algorithmic craftsmanship. From a biological and evolutionary perspective, human hair is often viewed as an unremarkable mass of keratin that still plays some important functions—protecting our scalps from the...Read More
Back on May 11, 2026, Polish ABW (the country’s internal security agency) warned the world that cyber attacks were “shifting from espionage and data theft toward physical disruption of critical infrastructure.” Here’s an excerpt from that article: “Security researchers say the mechanics behind many of these attacks are often far less sophisticated than commonly imagined....Read More
Courtney McCarty sent an urgent message to parents after seeing a rise in a “deeply concerning” trend involving social media and children. She warned to “act now” A social media ban for kids could happen within weeks(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) A mum has issued an urgent warning to other parents after noticing a horrifying rise in...Read More
Getty Images By Sophie Kao Social media has always been known for being a major influencer on how people dress, study, talk, and more. This includes the way people can perceive unhealthy things such as drugs or alcohol. When people use social media, what once may have been stigmatized is now being presented as harmless...Read More
The 2026 World Happiness Report has arrived, and once again Finland sits atop the global happiness rankings like a serene Nordic wizard calmly sipping oat milk coffee while the rest of the planet doomscrolls itself into psychic shrapnel. Meanwhile, the United States ranked 23rd overall, trailing Costa Rica, Mexico and … Reminder: You are seeing...Read More
Dive Brief: Cybercriminals are becoming much faster at handing off initial access in targeted environments, with the window shrinking to just 22 seconds in 2025, according to a report Monday by Google Threat Intelligence Group and its incident response unit, Mandiant. That compares to about eight hours in 2022. Exploits remained the leading initial access vector,...Read More
Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by the education-technology company Monday night, the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more...Read More
Cybersecurity policy has long been treated as a communications function instead of an operational mission, which creates a disconnect between cyber professionals and operators in the field, according to Daniel Austin, senior cybersecurity subject matter expert for the U.S. Space Force. At the Engage Public Sector conference on May 28 in Washington, D.C., Austin outlined...Read More
