The Coca-Cola Company has confirmed that production at its Fairlife dairy business in the US has been temporarily suspended following a ransomware attack that compromised part of the company’s systems. According to Coca-Cola, Fairlife identified unauthorised access by a third party to a portion of its IT infrastructure, including production-related systems, prompting the company to...Read More
The U.K.’s online safety regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into TikTok to determine whether the platform has met its obligations under the Online Safety Act to protect children from harmful content. The watchdog’s probe will cover concerns raised in its two reports on children’s experiences online and age assurance that age inference models used by TikTok, which guess...Read More
Case #2026-1214 The Baytown Police Department arrests 33-year-old Toby James Woods of Houston in connection with a proactive undercover operation targeting individuals attempting to exploit minors online. Woods has been charged with Online Solicitation of a Minor, a felony offense. During the investigation, it was also determined that Woods is a convicted sex offender from...Read More
U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport of London (TfL), the government body overseeing the U.K. capital’s public transit system, in 2024....Read More
Writer’s latest series created with campaigner Ellen Roome and Simon Cowell’s partner, Lauren Cowell Jeff Pope will explore the devastating impact social media can have on children in his latest drama for ITV. The as-yet-untitled series will follow the story of Ellen Roome and families around the world who have campaigned for better online safety....Read More
The disruption comes ahead of Q2 earnings, as investors assess recovery efforts, cyber risks and potential financial impact. After detecting unauthorized access, Coca-Cola has activated its response plan. U.S. Fairlife production is temporarily suspended, and the company is still assessing the attack’s impact. Coca-Cola will report Q2 earnings on July 28. The Coca-Cola Co. (KO)...Read More
Forbes reported that crypto hack losses in the first half reached $1,315,676,432, up about 28% from a year earlier excluding a major incident from the same period last year. About 44% of losses came from Kelp DAO and Drift Protocol, with the report attributing them to operational and infrastructure security failures rather than smart-contract vulnerabilities....Read More
If your cyber security strategy is built around buying Managed Detection and Response (MDR), deploying an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent, and calling it “done”, then someone has sold you a story, not a strategy. There is a growing trend in the industry that is becoming difficult to ignore: organisations believe that once the...Read More
Australia’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector will enter the next stage of national child safety reform when advanced child safety training will become available from July 2026, expanding on the mandatory foundation modules introduced earlier this year. The new training forms part of the nationally consistent child safety framework agreed by Education Ministers...Read More
Nearly two years after a cyberattack disrupted Transport for London’s (TfL) online services and exposed customer data, two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced to prison. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, each received a prison sentence of five years and six months at Woolwich Crown Court, bringing one of...Read More
