Overlooking the Irish Sea just south of Dublin, Greystones is one of Ireland’s most affluent and scenic towns. Its coastal views, independent shops and tight-knit community have made it one of the most desirable places to live in the country.  In recent years, Greystones has also become known for something else: Raising children without smartphones. At...Read More

GDANSK, June 18 (Reuters) – Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. Below is a summary of what countries and companies are doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over...Read More

4 min readBengaluruUpdated: Jun 18, 2026 04:08 PM IST The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday opposed the bail plea of gambling businessman Sunish Hegde, arguing that he utilised the services of notorious hacker Srikrishna, alias Sriki, to hack online poker sites and extort Rs 2 crore in the form of gambling chips at casinos, cash,...Read More

Dragos’ industry-leading OT threat detection, trusted vendor-neutral platform and proprietary dataset will be enhanced through the acquisitions of runZero and NetRise. The addition of runZero will bring comprehensive exposure assessment and attack-surface intelligence. NetRise will add a unique software supply chain dataset and firmware-level visibility into device exposure. Combining Dragos with runZero and NetRise will...Read More

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Eset Links Group’s Growth to Integrated Endpoint-Killing Tools Tiffany Wang • June 18, 2026     Image: Shutterstock/ISMG Prolific ransomware group The Gentlemen is anything but mild and calm with endpoint detection and response, say researchers who found that the extortionists have turned EDR killing into a...Read More

David Dunmoyer, associate vice president at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, urges Congress to pass legislation similar to Texas’ App Store Accountability Act.  Matt Rourke/AP Few things have been more troubling in recent years than the unfettered social experiment of throwing children in front of black mirrors and hopping them up on app-induced dopamine. After...Read More

INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment, covering January 2024 to March 2025 across 18 member countries, reports that more than half of surveyed countries cite cybercrime above 30 per cent of national crime, alongside more than 135,000 ransomware attacks and a 92% rise in DDoS attacks. INTERPOL has published its 2025/2026 Asia and...Read More

Countries that have banned or are moving to ban social media for children 1. UAE The UAE Cabinet has banned children under 15 from creating or using social media accounts. Those aged 15–16 will have restricted access, with safeguards including age-appropriate content filters, disabled stranger interactions, screen time limits, and parental controls. Platforms have up...Read More

A ransomware group that was relatively unknown just a few years ago has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s most active cybercrime operations, according to new research from Acronis’ Threat Research Unit (TRU). The report traces the rise of INC ransomware from its appearance in 2023 to its current position as a major global...Read More

FortiBleed Exposes Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2026 FortiBleed: Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls Are Out in the Wild. Half the Internet-Facing Fortinets on the Planet. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found a server sitting open on the internet containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including usernames,...Read More