Ahead of the Day of the Communications and Cybersecurity Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which from now on will be observed on August 8, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with service members of the Communications and Cybersecurity Forces and presented them with state awards. The Head of State thanked them for their service and...Read More
By Rae Ann Varona ( August 7, 2026, 11:24 PM EDT) — A bipartisan bill Senate lawmakers introduced Friday aimed at protecting small businesses from threats to their networks would require the U.S. Government Accountability Office to develop a report informing small business owners what federal cybersecurity tools and programs are available to them…. Law360...Read More
Meta’s ad platform did something it has promised, repeatedly, never to allow again. According to a new investigation from Wired, Meta ran dozens of paid ads over the past nine months containing explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some of which stayed live even after the company was directly confronted about them. If this feels...Read More
A proposed private member’s bill could introduce stricter safeguards for children using social media and online gaming platforms in India. The Safeguarding Healthy Internet Environments for Little Digital-Natives (SHIELD) Bill, 2025, proposed by BJP MP Baijayant Panda, seeks to bar children under 13 from creating accounts on social media and gaming platforms without verified parental...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 05, 2026AI Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic’s large language models (LLMs), including Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the...Read More
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. OpenAI’s internal evaluations indicate that its upcoming frontier model, Astra, may have reached the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · Aug 8, 2026 12:46 EDT Image generated by ChatGPT Over the past few months, we...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve...Read More
Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users in India add their date of birth, an update to the massively popular messaging service in its largest market. Screenshots circulating online in recent days show a box that appeared atop the app for some users saying, “Add your date of birth. Upcoming...Read More
A former senior executive at PGIM and longtime real estate executive was arrested as part of a sting operation involving minors in San Francisco. Photo credit: Unsplash/Daniel von Appen Reuben Teague, 50, was one of five men arrested in the undercover operation conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with other U.S. law...Read More
