Hannah Smith was a 14-year-old living in Lutterworth, England, when she began receiving hateful messages on the social-networking site Ask.fm. A few weeks later, she committed suicide. Convinced their daughter was a victim of cyberbullying, her family called for the question-and-answer site to be shut down. But when Ask.fm officials investigated what happened, they found...Read More

Story audio is generated using AI A TikTok creator known as Nobangela Lokishi has opened up about the difficulties of pursuing higher education due to a criminal record. The record stems from a 2024 incident involving homophobic and body-shaming comments he made about fellow creator Dominic Zaca. In a recent social media video, Lokishi explained...Read More

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman has introduced a formidable legal shield against organized crime in the digital age with the promulgation of Royal Decree No. 61/2026, establishing the new Law on Combating Cybercrimes. Issued on June 1, 2026, this landmark legislation is designed to fortify national digital security, protect society from evolving cyber threats, and ensure...Read More

Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they’re asking for without bothering a human. Meta’s new AI support assistant took that brief a little too seriously. Over the past few months, attackers have been opening support chats, telling the bot they were locked out of Instagram accounts they didn’t own, and walking...Read More

Cisco on Thursday warned of a zero-day vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN product that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, is the result of insufficient validation of user-supplied input. The flaw, which has a severity score of 7.8, could allow an attacker to conduct command-injection attacks...Read More

The spirit of unity and community responsibility took centre stage as Child Protection Week was officially launched recently at Umhlangeni Pre-Primary School in Randfontein. The initiative was spearheaded by the Randfontein police, in partnership with Lenmed Randfontein Private Hospital. • ALSO READ: ‘Child safety is everyone’s responsibility’ The event brought together key stakeholders committed to...Read More

Ransomware is not a future threat. It is a present reality. Eighty-three percent of CISOs say they are confident in their organization’s ability to recover from a ransomware attack. More than half experienced a disruptive incident in the past year. Not a single respondent recovered within 24 hours. That gap — between confidence and capability...Read More

Sahara Reporters publisher and activist Omoyele Sowore, on Friday, refused to enter his defence in his ongoing cyberbullying trial in which he is accused of falsely calling President Bola Tinubu “a criminal.” Since 8 May, when the court dismissed Mr Sowore’s no-case submission, there has been a back-and-forth on the issue of him entering his...Read More

Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik has issued a Royal Decree enacting a new Law on Combating Cybercrimes. It imposes strict penalties, including imprisonment and fines, for offences involving the misuse of information technology systems, particularly in relation to gambling activities and the creation, distribution or possession of pornographic content. Under provisions of the Cybercrime...Read More

Hackers stole data from thousands of GitHub repositories, the code-hosting giant said on Tuesday. “While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity,” the company said in a post on...Read More