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
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Convicted sex offender Ryan Pontello appeared in Onondaga County Court on Wednesday morning for his new child sex crime case. The defense and prosecution met again to go over what evidence would be suppressed when Pontello goes to trial in January 2027. Specifically, the defense is seeking to suppress statements Pontello made...Read More
How Businesses Can Navigate 2026, and Beyond Navigating today’s landscape can be disorienting, and Darrah acknowledges this. “We are living in strange times where reports of nation-state meddling, ever changing privacy laws, advances in technology such as AI, data extortions, and data breaches are constant.” His advice for small businesses is to prioritize strategically. Not...Read More
JAKARTA – Ariana Grande is rumored to have filed a lawsuit against a group of anonymous hackers who are suspected of hacking personal devices and leaking hundreds of unreleased music and video recordings to the public. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles District Court, United States, on Monday local time. Launching Variety, Ariana Grande’s...Read More
