Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the legal action, alleging that OpenAI marketed ChatGPT aggressively while concealing serious safety risks. “People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it,” Uthmeier told reporters. The lawsuit cites several incidents in which ChatGPT allegedly provided information to individuals who later committed violent...Read More
The City of Sandstone in Minnesota said it discovered a major ransomware event affecting its systems in April that compromised the personal information of citizens and employees. Located in Pine County, Minnesota, the City of Sandstone is home to around 2,500 residents and carries the name thanks to a major sandstone quarry in its...Read More
In October 2025, the world adopted its first global treaty against cybercrime in Hanoi. By early 2026, 76 countries including the European Union had already signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime. The treaty remains open for signature until 31 December 2026. Bangladesh still has time to decide whether it wants to join the global...Read More
WINTER PARK, Fla. (CBS12) — Alan Chambers, the former president of an infamous Florida-based anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy organization, was arrested in an undercover child predator sting. Detectives said 54-year-old Chambers of Winter Park was taken into custody Tuesday following an undercover operation in which he allegedly communicated online with an undercover detective posing as a...Read More
Ransomware is still a booming business, according to new research from Rapid7 Labs. So much so that cyber criminal gangs are outperforming major companies. Analysis from the cybersecurity firm found ransomware groups made an estimated $529.2 million in the first quarter of this year, with total revenues up by 39% year-on-year. That’s a better performance...Read More
The restrictions affect posts related to body image and mental health.
Tada Images/Shutterstock Meta is experimenting with new limits on the type of content teens can interact with on Instagram. The company says that it will now attempt to restrict “repeated” exposure to posts about anxiety, weightlifting, nutrition and other content that could...Read More
In his 13 years as the Lincoln Public Schools security director, Joseph Wright saw the impact that the safety team had. He recalled one school resource officer who helped a student with behavior challenges by having lunch with them as often as he could. “For two years they had lunch together every day, and the...Read More
A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and FakeUpdates techniques on compromised sites. Thousands of websites have been compromised in DriveSurge campaigns to redirect visitors to malware-delivery infrastructure, according to researchers at cybersecurity company SilentPush. ClickFix is a popular social engineering tactic that deceives victims into copying...Read More
Most businesses that operate this way do not fail dramatically; they just slowly lose ground: a client who walks after a data incident, a contract that stalls because the vendor questionnaire revealed gaps, a week of lost productivity that nobody formally tracked. The businesses that grow consistently tend to treat IT differently, not as overhead,...Read More
A British man has been jailed for 28 months after being found guilty of grooming a teenager via “dangerous” online game Roblox. 18 year-old Carlo Tritta first met the 14 year-old victim on Roblox before encouraging her to communicate via Whatsapp and Snapchat over an 11-month period instead. “The young girl in this case thought...Read More
