General News ADVOCATES of children’s rights have urged the National Assembly to speedily pass the Bill for an Act to enact the Child Online Access Protection and Online Violence Against Nigerian Child and for Other Related Matters. The advocates made the call in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ round table...Read More
After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the researcher got to wondering what else a hacker might do. So he turned his attention to FreeRTOS, the open source operating system that ran the Katana V2X. It contained a set...Read More
What do mechanical engineering, medical devices, supercomputers and artificial intelligence have in common? The answer lies in the career of Asmae Mhassni, a Moroccan engineer whose journey has taken her from Florida classrooms to the forefront of cybersecurity at Intel. Today, Mhassni is a Principal Engineer at Intel, one of the company’s highest technical ranks,...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a new law aimed at protecting kids’ mental health by cutting off “addictive features” like autoplay videos and infinite scrolling for users under 16. The law requires large social media companies to estimate users’ ages and obtain parental consent for younger teens. FULL STORY: SC wants teens...Read More
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced the arrest of an Alabama man for cybercrimes following a joint investigation with the FBI. Landen Westfall, 24, of Athens, Alabama, has been booked on charges including criminal assistance to suicide, indecent behavior with a juvenile, and child pornography. The investigation began in late October 2025, when juvenile detectives...Read More
For 13-year-old Samantha Milan, the worst part about being bullied was the fact that it happened in front of a huge audience. “This kid started threatening me, and then it went online to Instagram,” she said. “The caption said something like, ‘Look who’s hungry.’ It made me feel like I just wanted to die.” A...Read More
Thousands of individuals had their sensitive personal information exposed after Tulane University experienced a major data breach after hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite. In a recent filing with the Office of New Hampshire Attorney General, Tulane University said it experienced a data security incident after attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in...Read More
Identity governance startup Opal Security has announced raising $23 million in a new funding round that brings the total investment in the company to $59 million. The fresh round of funding was led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with additional support from Cambium Capital. Founded in 2020, San Francisco-based Opal has built an AI-native platform...Read More
New Delhi, June 05, 2026: Convergint India marked the 25th anniversary of Convergint Social Responsibility Day by undertaking school safety and infrastructure improvement projects across multiple educational institutions under its STEP (Secure, Train, Educate, Protect) Up for Schools initiative. The company said more than 400 employees across India contributed over 3,400 volunteer hours to support...Read More
Woman defrauded by a Facebook ad that featured an AI-generated deepfake video of Prime Minister urging people to invest $350 into a cryptocurrency scheme After Judy Skene was scammed of nearly a million dollars by a case of online fraud, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has offered advice to the public to spare them from suffering...Read More
