If you’re planning to attend our roundtable, Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children on July 31, in New Delhi, scroll down for a reading list that will help you prepare for this discussion. Please remember that you’re a participant in MediaNama’s discussions and not just there to listen. Your point of view matters...Read More

This year is shaping up to be another record-breaking year for ransomware attacks, with the amount of publicly disclosed victims having already increased by almost 25% from last year, according to one new report.   In 2026, ransomware incursions have grown by 60% during the second half of the reporting period for Black Kite, vendor of a cyber risk management platform. The cyber surveillance...Read More

OpenAI has revealed that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models breached a controlled testing environment and autonomously hacked another AI company, Hugging Face, describing the incident as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” The company said the incident occurred during an internal test designed to assess its AI models’ advanced hacking capabilities, with the usual...Read More

The UK’s Cyber Security & Resilience Bill may fail to achieve its goals unless the Government fundamentally shifts how it addresses the country’s cyber skills crisis, an authoritative new report warns. Published today by The CSBR, the report – The UK Cyber Skills Gap: Building Capability and Resilience – reveals that, while the UK has built a solid...Read More

KINSTON, Lenoir County — The Kinston Police Department is inviting residents to a town hall meeting Wednesday aimed at helping seniors avoid scams, financial crimes and elder abuse. The KPD CONNECT Town Hall Forum begins at 6 p.m. at the Neuse Regional Library, located at 510 N. Queen St. in Kinston. Police say the event...Read More

SPRINGFIELD — State Senator Michael E. Hastings is advancing legislation aimed at improving emergency response in Illinois schools using mobile panic alert systems. The bill seeks to provide schools with modern tools to quickly alert first responders in the event of a crisis. “As a dad, school safety isn’t abstract to me, it’s personal,” said...Read More

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — The Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan’s Oliy Majlis has approved in its second reading a draft law aimed at strengthening measures to combat offences committed using information technologies. Following its approval by lawmakers, the bill has been sent to the Senate for consideration. Under the draft law, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is...Read More

France’s Parliament passed a law Tuesday that will ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media, according to a new report from France24. Australia and Indonesia have similar laws for kids under 16, but France is the first member of the European Union to pass such legislation. The National Assembly passed the...Read More

The Hidden Wiki has a much bigger reputation than it deserves. Most people think it’s one secret list that opens up the whole dark web in a single click. From a security point of view, that’s mostly wrong. Here’s a plain breakdown of what it really is, how it works under the hood, and why...Read More

The panel discussion on Identity and Access Management in the Enterprise at the BusinessWorld Cybersecurity Summit in Pasay City. — RICHARD MENDOZA The country’s two e-wallet giants, Maya Philippines, Inc. and GCash, said ransomware, phishing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled attacks are among the biggest cybersecurity threats facing their platforms and consumers, with both companies integrating...Read More