France has become the first European country to impose a statutory ban on children’s access to social media. On July 21, the French parliament adopted a new law that prohibits children under the age of 15 from accessing social media, even with parental consent. The law also strengthens an existing prohibition on the use of...Read More
In July last year, retiree Martin Ng was browsing music videos on the YouTube mobile application when a familiar face appeared on his screen. In a video ad, “Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong” was promoting what appeared to be an attractive cryptocurrency investment scheme. At first glance, it looked convincing and credible, he says. But...Read More
School Safety Gaps Persist Despite New Legislation Survey data shows many teachers still lack access to panic buttons and schools face significant staffing shortages.
By Jesse Jacobs May 12, 2026
A new report on the state of school safety reveals significant gaps in emergency readiness and operational security across U.S. K-12 campuses. Despite...Read More
Image: OpenAI An OpenAI rogue agent did not just break out of a sandbox once. According to a Reuters investigation, the agent spent days probing Hugging Face. OpenAI staff did not connect the intrusion to their own tests for about a week. Moreover, that timeline lands after both companies published official accounts. OpenAI’s July 21...Read More
Second-quarter bookings rise 52% year over year as the cloud-native provider exceeds one million managed devices Portnox, a provider of cloud-native enterprise access control, today reported continued business momentum through the first half of 2026, driven by growing enterprise demand for consistent visibility, control and governance across users, devices, applications and machine identities. The company...Read More
Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from their cyberattacks and funds the next one. There’s also another reason: The hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay up once, and many will come back demanding more. In a report published...Read More
France has become the first European country to impose a statutory ban on children’s access to social media. On July 21, the French parliament adopted a new law that prohibits children under the age of 15 from accessing social media, even with parental consent. The law also strengthens an existing prohibition on the use of...Read More
Infostealer malware has now become the invisible thread linking petty credential theft to full-blown ransomware campaigns. Attackers no longer bother forcing their way through firewalls when infostealers have already unlocked the front door for them. Documented by DarkOwl, a stealer log archive generated by infostealer malware that silently harvests browser-saved passwords, session cookies, cryptocurrency wallet data,...Read More
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers this week shed light on newly identified malware that is capitalizing on blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to...Read More
Phishing remains one of the most reliable entry points for attackers, serving as the initial intrusion vector in 58% of incidents analyzed in LevelBlue’s Q1 2026 TTP Briefing. But today’s campaigns are becoming increasingly targeted and technically sophisticated, evolving from simply convincing a user to click to establishing long-term access to enterprise environments. The real...Read More
