The Oyo State Government has reassured parents and guardians of its commitment to the safety and wellbeing of learners across the state, urging them not to withdraw their children from school following the recent release of abducted students and their teachers in Oriire Local Government Area. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Olusegun Olayiwola,...Read More
As more of our lives move online, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag) is seeing more people exposed to harmful behaviour such as bullying, hate speech, trolling, body shaming and personal attacks. “Social media has given people a platform to connect, but it has also made it much easier for hurtful comments to spread quickly...Read More
Warning shot or publicity stunt – how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack? BBC Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun The Guardian EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week Reuters How the Futuristic Hack by Rogue OpenAI Models Unfolded WSJ...Read More
Key Points Two cybersecurity experts say hotel Wi-Fi is generally low risk, but fake networks and poor security habits can still expose travelers. Travelers should verify the hotel’s official Wi-Fi network, keep devices updated, and enable multi-factor authentication before a trip. For banking, work accounts, and other sensitive activities, both experts recommend using a mobile...Read More
July 23 : U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced a new visa restriction policy that he said would target individuals responsible for or complicit in cybercrime and cyber-enabled crimes. Immediate family members of individuals engaged in such activities may also be subjected to visa restrictions, Rubio added in a statement released by...Read More
Zoho co-founder and ex-CEO Sridhar Vembu on Friday (Jul 24) triggered a debate online after suggesting that India should ban social media for young children. Vembu was reacting to a post about the French parliament passing a landmark bill, banning children under the age of 15 from using social media platforms. France became the first...Read More
The security tool millions of Windows machines trust to catch malware turned out to have its own privilege-escalation problem, and criminals noticed. Microsoft Defender’s CVE-2026-33825, nicknamed BlueHammer by the researchers who tracked it, lets a low-privileged local attacker claw their way up to SYSTEM, the highest access level on Windows. Microsoft patched it on April...Read More
The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various aspects related to victims. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the centrally administered RaaS operation under the name Funky Mantis. “The portal combined build generation, finance, victim chat,...Read More
The hacker behind the attack on AFX Trade converted stolen USDC into Ether (ETH) and is now swapping it into Bitcoin (BTC). The attacker stole about 24.15 million USDC and exchanged it for 12,468 Ether, of which about 655 Ether has been converted into 18.86 Bitcoin. The THORChain (RUNE) network is being used to convert...Read More
Swati KhandelwalJul 25, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security Security researchers depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.3 server that has not taken the update. Any authenticated user who can push to a project...Read More
