LAS VEGAS — When Livingston Parish deputies executed a search warrant at a suspect’s home, they discovered him actively using voice-changing technology to pose as a teen girl while communicating with a real child online— exactly the crime they had come to arrest him for. “He had a 14-year-old girl on the phone, he was...Read More

Combating spam and phishing attacks is now, thanks to AI, almost a full-time job. These hackers and criminals are constantly adjusting their attacks with increasingly clever social engineering, and now their latest target is AI itself. And sometimes even AI falls for it. Recently, Meta hastily patched a Meta AI chatbot security hole that allowed...Read More

OpenAI has announced the rollout of a new security-focused feature called Lockdown Mode, a protective setting designed to reduce the risk of sensitive information being stolen through one of the most persistent and challenging threats facing artificial intelligence systems today: prompt injection attacks. The feature, which is being introduced to eligible ChatGPT users across multiple...Read More

A growing number of families are suing Roblox after learning their children were groomed, exploited, or exposed to sexually explicit content through the platform. Roblox spent years branding itself as a safe, kid-focused place to create and play. These lawsuits say that the promise did not match reality, and too many children have been exploited...Read More

We uncovered personally identifiable information (PII) stolen from a China-based hotel chain being sold on a deep web forum we were monitoring. Further analysis revealed that the stolen data was not only the PII of Chinese customers, but also included the hotel chain’s customers from Western and East Asian countries. The sample data we saw...Read More

Jonathan, I really wanted to have you back. We had a wonderful conversation a couple of years ago, and you’ve done a lot of work since then and I’ve done a lot of thinking about it too, I must admit. And I think I’m not alone. Since you published The Anxious Generation in 2024, a...Read More

Ruag paid ransom to blackmailers after hacker attack Keystone-SDA The federally owned defence company RUAG has paid hackers a ransom. This was in response to a demand from the hacker group Akira, which hacked and blackmailed the RUAG subsidiary LLC in the US last autumn. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...Read More

Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative’s Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from roughly 16 yards (15 meters) away, with no pairing or physical contact, in a blog post published on June 3. By exploiting an unauthenticated Bluetooth interface and the absence of firmware signing, an attacker can...Read More

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their family. The association representing Northern Territory foster carers has voiced its support for proposed changes to child protection laws, arguing the interests of families are currently being put...Read More

Asheville Watchdog: “I sought comment from Whatley and his campaign spokesman about his support of West by email and text but received no response.” DC insider Michael Whatley is ducking questions from reporters about new reports that he “champion[ed] the rise to power” of a convicted child sex predator. When he was NCGOP Chair, Whatley...Read More