In December 2025, Australia banned young people under 16 from having social media accounts. France, Greece, Spain, Denmark, Malaysia, Norway, India, Egypt, Canada, Türkiye, and the United Kingdom are hot on their heels. French president Emmanuel Macron said: “Banning social media for those under 15: this is what scientists recommend”. American senator Brian Schatz, author...Read More
State Rep. Brandon Guffey during a meeting of the South Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Tracy Glantz tglantz@thestate.com COLUMBIA, S.C. Young teenagers in South Carolina will no longer be able to see like counts, stay up late watching autoplay videos or receive notifications for new posts on social media under a...Read More
Cloud phones—virtual devices hosted in remote data centers—are emerging as one of the most difficult fraud tools for banks and cybersecurity teams to detect. Unlike traditional emulators or bots, cloud phones behave like legitimate smartphones, generating authentic hardware identifiers, sensor activity, and device telemetry that can bypass standard...Read More
Zero Networks has recorded rapid growth in adoption of its OT microsegmentation products among industrial enterprises, with its OT customer base up 80% year on year. The increase includes multiple manufacturers ranked among the world’s top 20, alongside customers in energy, utilities and transportation. OT environments now feature in 26% of net new deals, while...Read More
Judd Trump issued a statement claiming his Instagram account was hacked after explicit content allegedly appeared on the snooker star’s social media account Judd Trump issued a statement after the incident occurred (Image: Sam Bloxham/Getty Images) Snooker star Judd Trump has claimed he fell victim to a social media hack after an explicit Instagram story...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers at the firm Novee Security have discovered a dangerous flaw in pretalx, a popular open-source software, which allows cybercriminals to completely hijack organiser accounts without having to click a single link. It is a high-severity stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41241 with a high CVSS score of 8.7. For your information,...Read More
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Chris Kelly, Kelly Investments founder, former Facebook general counsel and chief privacy officer, and Sacramento Kings co-owner, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the tech sector, AI boom, cybersecurity concerns, AI data center buildout, and more. ——————————————————- Click Here For...Read More
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen recently triggered a controversy over her comments comparing children’s use of social media to smoking. Speaking about online safety, Mette Frederiksen was purportedly heard as saying, “If I had small kids today, I would rather have them smoking than allowing them to stay on their own on social media. But...Read More
Recognising that mule accounts are the lifeline of cyber fraud, Gujarat Police decided to attack the problem at its source. Investigators gathered intelligence from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), the Coordination Portal, and the national cyber fraud helpline 1930. This massive pool of data was analysed to...Read More
A high-profile cyber breach has hit a piece of digital presidential history. According to a report by entertainment news outlet TMZ, the official archived White House Instagram page from the Barack Obama administration was briefly compromised over the weekend. The breach was caught on Sunday after the account—which operates under the verified handle @obamawhitehouse and...Read More
