Actor expresses anguish over recurring violence against children, urges stronger action Actor Zara Noor Abbas has voiced concern over the safety of children and questioned the effectiveness of the justice system following a recent incident in Karachi. In an Instagram story, she expressed anguish over what she described as the lack of meaningful consequences for...Read More
Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Again. One study found that ransomware gangs claimed “6,883 unique attacks” on dark-web leak sites in 2025, a 19% increase over 2024. Europol’s 2026 Internet Organized Crime Assessment likewise describes ransomware as a “dominant threat” in a “complex and evolving landscape.” The legal challenge, we argue, is not only...Read More
VPNs and Tor are separate technologies and neither needs the other. They overlap on two levels: both encrypt your traffic and both hide your IP address. You can use Tor by itself and stay anonymous, and putting a VPN in front of it isn’t automatically an improvement, particularly if you connect them in the wrong...Read More
GDIT will provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity services for the Army National Guard and federal partners. Credit: DC Studio/Shutterstock.com. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a division of General Dynamics, has secured a $1.3bn contract to provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity services for the US Army National Guard and other federal government partners. The Enterprise Network...Read More
OpenAI has announced it suspended certain aspects of development on its upcoming model, Astra, after an internal review found the model had reached what the company calls a “critical cybersecurity threshold,” meaning it could independently identify and execute cyberattacks against well-protected real-world systems. Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, established in 2023, this finding triggered additional safeguards....Read More
Cyberbullying has long ceased to be merely an argument on the internet. Insults, harassment in chats, the publication of humiliating photos and videos, coordinated mockery, threats, and the spread of false information can cause harm comparable to offline violence. In Central Asia, the problem is becoming increasingly visible, but legal responses still vary significantly. As...Read More
Cyberbullying has long ceased to be merely an argument on the internet. Insults, harassment in chats, the publication of humiliating photos and videos, coordinated mockery, threats, and the spread of false information can cause harm comparable to offline violence. In Central Asia, the problem is becoming increasingly visible, but legal responses still vary significantly. As...Read More
Meta Platforms will head to court in the United States this week to defend itself against allegations that its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, harmed children by fostering addictive usage patterns and exposing young users to mental health risks. The trial is among the first major cases stemming from a wave of lawsuits filed...Read More
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. SMA1000 is an enterprise-grade secure remote access gateway used by large corporations, government agencies, and Managed Service Providers (MSSPs) to provide VPN access to internal applications and corporate networks. SonicWall released patches for the two...Read More
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. SMA1000 is an enterprise-grade secure remote access gateway used by large corporations, government agencies, and Managed Service Providers (MSSPs) to provide VPN access to internal applications and corporate networks. SonicWall released patches for the two...Read More
