The UN’s new permanent mechanism on international cybersecurity shifted from organisational discussions to substantive exchanges on the evolving cyber threat landscape, with member states identifying ransomware, attacks on critical infrastructure, and the malicious use of AI among the most pressing challenges requiring international cooperation. Meeting during the first substantive plenary session of the Global Mechanism...Read More
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – Hacking gang Anubis claimed credit on Tuesday for an attack on Coca-Cola-owned dairy company fairlife, threatening to publish stolen data unless it received an unspecified ransom. The group made the claim on its dark web site, saying it had stolen 1 terabyte of data from fairlife. Coca-Cola...Read More
Why it Matters A congressionally established program designed to strengthen the federal government’s cybersecurity workforce has seen limited participation. The Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program, managed by the Office of Personnel Management, was created to help federal cybersecurity employees develop new skills through temporary assignments at other agencies. According to a new Government Accountability Office...Read More
KYLE KELLAMS: Last week, ProPublica reported on a private school in Arkansas receiving state taxpayer money. The report provided evidence of child maltreatment at that private school. Despite the school’s founder being charged with nearly a dozen felonies, the school continues to receive state funding, and the school’s founder is still listed as a registered...Read More
Australia banned under-16s from social media in December; the U.K. is now investigating whether TikTok’s age checks even work; and France just finalized its own under-15 ban this week, racing to beat the August recess. Platforms are grappling with how to handle the “age verification trap,” how do you collect information about a user online...Read More
A Russian-speaking cyber-criminal has been observed moving in three months from posting a jailbreak tutorial on a Russian-language forum to selling a commercial offensive AI pentest platform built on the techniques he documented. According to new research from Cato CTRL, the research unit of Cato Networks, an actor using the handle Trim first appeared on...Read More
Most security leaders believe they have visibility across their environment. After all, today’s security stacks are packed with tools, from EDR and SIEM to XDR and DLP. These tools provide an abundance of security data such as failed and successful login attempts, endpoint process and file‑access events, email and identity‑related alerts and much more. Dashboards...Read More
Qilin Ransomware Affiliates Abuse CVE-2026-0257 to Gain Unauthorized VPN Access Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2026 Qilin ransomware exploits the PAN-OS GlobalProtect flaw CVE-2026-0257 to gain unauthorized VPN access to unpatched networks. Arctic Wolf researchers warn that the Qilin ransomware gang is exploiting the critical PAN-OS GlobalProtect vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 to compromise corporate networks. CVE-2026-0257 is a...Read More
President Emmanuel Macron, who has championed the initiative, wants the ban in effect before the upcoming school year. By AFP and The Associated Press Published On 21 Jul 202621 Jul 2026 France’s parliament has passed a landmark bill barring children under the age of 15 from using social media platforms. Lawmakers in both chambers of...Read More
