In today’s Digest, we discuss a New Mexico judge ordering Meta to pay an additional USD$567m (£419.5m) over child safety issues, Burnham fast-tracking subscription trap crackdown as cost-of-living tour begins, and YouTube extending its shopping affiliate program to UK creators. Meta hit with additional $567m child safety penalty A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta...Read More
What Happened? CISA now flags a Microsoft SharePoint code execution bug as used in ransomware attacks, six weeks after it first added the flaw to the same catalog. Attackers who broke into SonicWall SMA1000 appliances took passwords, live session records, and the seed files that generate one-time MFA codes. Shadowserver counts more than 8,500 SharePoint...Read More
Every agent incident disclosed this summer ends the same way: the agent completed its task with everything it had. The problem is how much it had. Taken one at a time, the flood of recent reports about AI agents breaking containment reads like a series of security failures. When we shift the viewpoint from the...Read More
A strike on a cargo vessel killed at least two people near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off the coast of southern Yemen, British maritime security company Vanguard reported Tuesday, in the latest incident in the contested waterway. “Two crew members, one Pakistani and one Indonesian national, were killed, while four others, comprising three Pakistani and...Read More
Erika Dean Tricentis has appointed cybersecurity executive Erika Dean as chief information security officer, putting her in charge of the company’s global security strategy as enterprises increase their use of AI across software development and testing workflows. Dean will oversee enterprise cybersecurity, compliance and product security at Tricentis, with responsibilities spanning the company’s internal operations...Read More
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Equip your team with the intel they need to stay ahead of global threat actors and threats such as social engineering and AI deepfakes.Read More
Schools must initiate action against a bullying complaint within two days of a reported incident as part of a new national plan to tackle bullying. The announcement follows a renewed focus on the devastating impacts of school bullying, which has been linked to the suicides of young people across Australia. If you or anyone you...Read More
ANI | Updated: Aug 11, 2026 17:36 IST New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): The Centre has blocked a total of 3,718 mobile applications, including fraudulent loan apps, till June 30, 2026, as part of its efforts to curb cybercrime and protect citizens from online frauds, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok...Read More
NeuShield, creators of the industry’s first Mirror Shielding™ technology, today announced Exfiltration Protection, a major enhancement to NeuShield Data Sentinel that helps organizations prevent cybercriminals from accessing sensitive files, even when attackers compromise legitimate user credentials. The new capability addresses a growing challenge facing organizations as modern ransomware campaigns increasingly steal sensitive data before launching...Read More
Claiming first championship following last year’s third-place finish, solving all challenges within 25 hours of the 50-hour competition Demonstrating human-AI collaboration by combining AI-powered security analysis technology with expert judgment SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AUTOCRYPT, a leading Physical AI security solutions provider, announced that its Red Team won first place at...Read More
