By SÍLE MOLONEY COUNCILMAN OSWALD FELIZ (C.D. 15), chair of the city council committee on public safety, holds a joint hearing with the city council committee on education on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, to evaluate the operations of school safety agents (SSAs) and crossing guards. Photo courtesy of the Office of Councilman Oswald Feliz Bronx...Read More

Coca-Cola says milk production has resumed at its Fairlife brand after a ransomware attack shut down US-based facilities for over a week.  Fairlife has “resumed the majority of production at its four facilities in the United States,” Coca-Cola said on Monday. That said, the company is still working to restore all impacted systems and operations. In...Read More

France became the first country in the European Union (EU) to ban children under 15 years old from using social media. Both chambers of France’s Parliament voted in favor of the law, PBS reports, with lawmakers citing growing concerns of the harmful impact of social media on children. Sentiment against social media use for children...Read More

PHISHING FEST: Those looking to extort companies and individual people might use AI to increase the scope and effectiveness of their nefarious ambition, officials said By Shelley Shan / Staff Reporter Cybercriminals using artificial intelligence (AI) could make ransomware more automated and targeted, while employing double-extortion tactics that involve stealing sensitive data and threatening...Read More

Employees connecting to hotel or conference Wi-Fi are being targeted through the network equipment managing their connection, allowing attackers to redirect them to fake Microsoft login pages without sending a phishing email or infecting their computers. The campaign has operated since at least June 2026, according to research published by ReliaQuest, which identified compromised Wi-Fi...Read More

Why security needs a new Cyber Stack — Introducing Project Perception The physics of cybersecurity are changing. Autonomous systems can now reason, adapt and operate continuously. At the same time, the cost of offense is falling, while the volume, velocity and complexity of what must be secured continues to grow. Attackers can generate exploits faster,...Read More

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The District of Columbia Housing Authority suffered a cybersecurity incident June 28, a disruption that led to a shutdown of its network systems and impacted the public housing authority for weeks. DCHA announced July 17...Read More

Recovery costs – covering legal fees, public relations, and technical containment, but excluding any ransom – averaged $235,000 and reached $2.1 million at the high end. Business email compromise averaged $26,000, though high-end cases exceeded $1.4 million. For New Zealand-specific context, Kordia’s 2025 New Zealand Business Cyber Security Report found that 59% of surveyed organisations...Read More

The Coca-Cola Company has confirmed that hackers stole data from its dairy subsidiary, Fairlife, during a ransomware attack earlier this month. In a short statement earlier today, the global beverages giant says that it is still working to restore some of the impacted systems and operations, but most of the production in the U.S. has...Read More

Digital platforms are facing greater accountability as regulators strengthen rules around youth protection and algorithm-driven content recommendations. The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that TikTok failed to meet the Digital Services Act’s requirements for protecting minors, citing the platform’s public account settings and recommendation system. TikTok allows minors to set their accounts to ‘public’,...Read More