OCRI also uses funds to support training cybersecurity skills for K-12 students for summer campus, afterschool cyber clubs and other events that encourage young people with an interest in cybersecurity, explains Michael. A good example is OCRI hosted its annual statewide Capture the Flag (CTF) competition back in April. The event involved 68 teams with...Read More
A group of civil society organizations led by the Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) issued an open letter opposing the Kids Off Social Media Act (S. 4213) introduced by Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Katie Britt (R-Ala.). The group—which...Read More
Guwahati. A major cyber fraud network allegedly operating under the guise of Customer Service Point (CSP) centres has been uncovered in Bajali district during an ongoing crackdown on cybercrime. Police have arrested four individuals in connection with the racket, which investigators believe has links across multiple states. Four Accused Arrested The arrested accused have been...Read More
For years, a unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency quietly turned ordinary home routers into tools of espionage. The GRU group known as APT28, the same outfit behind the 2016 DNC hack and a string of attacks on NATO targets, exploited unpatched firmware and unchanged default passwords to compromise thousands of devices across 23 US...Read More
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 7, 2026 09:38 AM IST The tech industry continues to grapple with layoffs, and Google is the latest company to cut jobs. According to reports, the search giant has been quietly laying off employees in its Google Cloud division over the past two weeks. So far this year, 164 companies...Read More
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Evan Bray: What Australia’s social media ban is hoping to do? Leaver: Australia has put through legislation that prevents users under the age of 16 from holding social media accounts across the big social media platforms. The aim is to, in the words of our Prime...Read More
Muscat: Engaging in online begging or soliciting for benefits through digital platforms now carries significant legal risks in Oman, including imprisonment and substantial fines. The new legal framework introduces strict deterrents against the misuse of technology for exploitation, while providing specific protections for vulnerable groups and exceptions for cases of genuine humanitarian need. Penalties for...Read More
A former IBM cybersecurity executive is alleging that the tech giant was breached tens of thousands of times by a Chinese state-linked hacking group and then systematically covered it up to protect its federal contracts. The lawsuit, filed under seal in 2020 and recently unsealed in New York federal court, paints a picture of a...Read More
The dome of the US Capitol building. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press On Thursday, June 4, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection hosted a hearing titled, “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience.” Witnesses included: Sandra Joyce, Vice President,...Read More
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
