LONDON (AP) — Britain will ban children aged under 16 from using a range of social media apps, including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday. The ban, which is expected to take effect early next year, makes the U.K. part of...Read More
Suno, the AI-generated music platform that’s currently being sued by both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, and recently acquired the concert discovery app Songkick, has been hacked. And the results revealed that “millions” of songs from YouTube, Genius, and the French streaming platform Deezer have been used to train Suno’s AI models, as have...Read More
STATEHOUSE, NAIROBI/FILE The government has temporarily restricted access to the official website of the President following a cybersecurity incident, as investigations and restoration efforts continue. In a statement issued on Saturday, July 18, 2026, Information, Communications and the Digital Economy Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo said the government detected the incident and moved quickly to contain...Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on July 14, 2026, charging three Russian nationals and two affiliated “bulletproof hosting” companies for running criminal infrastructure that enabled cyberattacks causing more than $62 million in losses to U.S. victims. The indictment, originally returned in December 2024 in the Northern District of Ohio, names Alexander Alexandrovich...Read More
The media industry is facing a social reckoning. After mounting scrutiny of social media’s impact on young users, the U.K. announced Monday that it would move forward with a ban on children under 16 using apps such as TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube. The news arrived just days after the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s “The...Read More
When rumors about DJ Phillips began spreading online, almost everyone believed them. The posts looked real. The account looked real. And for a while, DJ kept to himself about what was happening. Full story –> Macomb County teen’s world upended by total stranger who hijacked his life, spread rumors online That reaction makes sense, according...Read More
One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began using in the last year or so. Websites...Read More
The University at Buffalo is leading two National Science Foundation (NSF) awards — together totaling $950,000 — to prepare the next generation of the U.S. workforce in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing. Inside the Bonner Hall lab of Wenyao Xu, who is leading the workforce training projects. Image Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki, University at...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — Milk brand Fairlife is pausing its production in the U.S. after a ransomware cyberattack breached the company’s systems. Coca-Cola, which owns Fairlife, announced Thursday that its dairy company had identified “unauthorized access by a third party” to a portion of its systems, including those related to production. The company disclosed that...Read More
Mount Royal University staff are working alongside law enforcement to control a recent cyberattack that unfolded earlier in June, leaving most of MRU’s webpages, including student and faculty portals, inaccessible. The school has now confirmed that the incident was a ransomware attack. In addition, MRU said the attack primarily affected the school’s “H drive,” a...Read More
