The hacker behind the gigantic GTA 6 gameplay leak has been removed from a secure hospital and transferred to a standard prison following his sentencing late 2023. Arion Kurtaj was found guilty of numerous charges such as hacking and fraud after a spree of cybercrime. It ended with him accessing Rockstar’s internal communications system and...Read More
Asking teenagers to limit their own social media use is a laughable waste of time (UK 16- and 17-year-olds to be encouraged to follow midnight social media curfew, 14 July). I am still mystified that the regulation of these massively profitable services is being left to the user. In Britain, television is tightly regulated by...Read More
A new interagency clearinghouse will centralize AI vulnerability reporting and triage, promising faster fixes for energy and finance systems while raising questions about funding and oversight. The White House is launching a new AI cybersecurity center – a clearinghouse called Gold Eagle – to coordinate the protection of critical infrastructure from cyber threats and to...Read More
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in cybersecurity and cybercrime, Index Engines is urging organizations to strengthen their cyber resilience strategies, arguing that AI-powered ransomware is making attacks faster and more difficult to defend against. The cyber resilience company said emerging AI models are accelerating existing attack techniques by helping threat actors identify vulnerabilities, automate...Read More
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — The Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging hosted its annual “scam jam” seminar at the Heritage House in Brookville on Wednesday. The event brought together multiple agencies and community partners to educate older adults about financial exploitation from scammers. Officials say seniors also took part in a ‘scam bingo,’ an...Read More
Acting on the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) recommendations, India temporarily blocked the Telegram messaging app from Jun 16 to 22. The NTA said the ban was “in response to the organised use of the platform by cheating rackets to defraud candidates” ahead of the re-examination on Jun 21. Telegram challenged the temporary ban, but a New Delhi court...Read More
Canada seeks to ban social media accounts for children under 16, joining growing global effort SUMMER VACATION IS ALMOST HERE. SO IS THE MISSION FOR PARENTS TO PRY THEIR KIDS AWAY FROM SCREENS AND GET THEM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE, BUT THAT CAN BE AN UPHILL BATTLE. NUMBERS FROM THE ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT...Read More
From Timothy Olanrewaju, Maiduguri Worried by the renewed attacks on schools by armed groups, Borno State government and some development partners have organized an education summit to review safety around schools across the state and education inclusiveness. The State Commissioner for Education, Science Technology Engr Lawan Wakilbe while reviewing the education sector in Borno since...Read More
TL;DR Temu is a real shopping app, not an outright scam — but multiple users have reported suspicious bank activity and data concerns after using it. The app has faced scrutiny over data privacy, and security researchers have flagged it for aggressive data collection. Whether the risk is worth the low prices is genuinely up...Read More
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an earlier build should upgrade. Triggering it...Read More
