CNN Business —  When a mother in Washington state learned her teenage daughter was on Discord, a popular social media platform, she felt reasonably comfortable with the idea of her using it to communicate with members of her high school marching band. But in September, the mother discovered the 16-year-old was also using the audio and...Read More

By DAVID GREENE A DANGEROUS AREA for swimming cannot be easily seen with the naked eye as trees block the view from the Burke Avenue footbridge on Thursday, July 2, 2026.Photo by David Greene Unsupervised teens and pre-teens continue to head down a footpath beyond the Burke Avenue Bridge that connects the neighborhoods of...Read More

Lorena Giuberti Coutinho is a commissioner at Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) and a Professor at IDP in Brasília. She previously worked as an economist at the OECD and contributed to the initial phase of research behind Growing Up in the Social Media Age. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own...Read More

Parents, teens weigh social media limits as experts warn of addictive design Great Britain announced in June a ban on social media use for those under the age of 16. Australia also passed a law barring children under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms. We look at the impact of social...Read More

Mount Royal University in Calgary found out on June 17, 2026, that a criminal group almost nobody had heard of three months earlier had pulled more than 10 terabytes of student and staff records off its network. The ransom note gave the 100-year-old public university six days to pay 30 bitcoin, worth roughly $1.9 million...Read More

Government entities experienced 89 confirmed and 98 unconfirmed ransomware attacks in the first half of 2026, according to a report from Comparitech. US government agencies were targeted the most, accounting for 31% of those attacks, though at a rate 23% less than 2H 2025. Industries under increasing attack over the past six months include transportation...Read More

The agent used publicly available credentials to gain access to other services. Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock OpenAI has updated its blog post about the rogue agent that breached Hugging Face and admitted that it also infiltrated other other third-party accounts and services to achieve its goal. In the updated post, the company said it has...Read More

On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing to fix weaknesses in its code that a new AI model known as Mythos was uncovering at an unprecedented clip. The...Read More

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are rapidly evolving from simple chatbots into autonomous digital assistants capable of performing complex tasks such as managing emails, writing software code, conducting financial transactions, and even controlling industrial equipment. While these capabilities promise unprecedented efficiency, they also introduce a new category of cybersecurity risks. The question many organizations are asking...Read More

As companies rush to deploy AI agents that can act independently across business systems, a new cybersecurity challenge is emerging: how to know who — or what — is taking action, and what access those digital workers should have. Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security is tackling that challenge with a $30 million Series A funding...Read More