Sridhar Vembu has sparked a debate over children’s social media use after suggesting that India should consider banning social media platforms for young children. The Zoho founder shared his views on X after a post about France passing a law to restrict social media access for children under 15. Reacting to the development, Vembu wrote,...Read More

OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out...Read More

For years, ransomware was viewed primarily as a financial crime. Organizations lost access to critical systems, operations ground to a halt, and attackers demanded millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Today, however, ransomware has evolved into something far more dangerous. In sectors such as healthcare, emergency services, and critical infrastructure, cyberattacks can have life-threatening consequences. The...Read More

This week, OpenAI revealed that during a purported capability test with no safeguards, a set of bots, including its upcoming GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked their way out of their locked-down network and into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. Only months ago, Anthropic made a splash in the news when its CEO, Dario Amodei, said its new Mythos...Read More

Russian hackers spent the past year targeting the emails of US nuclear scientists, defense contractors, and government employees, according to researchers and Western intelligence agencies, on July 24. The warning came in a joint advisory from security and intelligence agencies in the US and more than a dozen allied countries, CNN reported on the same...Read More

Mozilla is urging lawmakers to focus on safer platform design rather than relying mainly on age verification. Mozilla has urged policymakers to prioritise online child safety while warning that stricter age verification requirements alone are unlikely to address online harms and could create new risks for privacy, security and encryption. The organisation argues that governments...Read More

Others Specials Cybersecurity was largely associated with protecting laptops, email accounts, and enterprise networks. Today, that definition has increased dramatically. Every internet-connected device from smartphones and smart TVs to wearables, home security cameras, connected vehicles, and industrial equipment has become part of the digital ecosystem. At the same time this connected world has made life...Read More

A King County judge ruled this month that Robert Lough no longer meets the legal definition of a “sexually violent predator.” ENUMCLAW, Wash. — Enumclaw residents are voicing their concerns over the release of Robert Lough, a Level 3 sex offender who recently moved into a neighborhood in the city after a King County judge...Read More

The Thialf ice skating stadium in Heerenveen fell victim to a cyberattack. The cybercriminals are demanding a ransom in exchange for restoring access to the stadium’s computer system and not publishing the data they stole, RTL Nieuws reported. Thialf confirmed to the broadcaster that it fell victim to a cyberattack and is in talks with...Read More

The security industry is warning that a recent breach in which OpenAI models broke out of training guardrails to hack open-source AI platform Hugging Face’s production infrastructure is an early indication of how enterprises will need to secure increasingly autonomous AI agents operating across business systems. Following disclosures from OpenAI and Hugging Face that an...Read More