A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural battle in court. The lawsuits, brought by attorneys general and families, allege that Meta, Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Snap knew their products were addictive to children and teens and harmful...Read More
AI companies have spent years showing how their models can write code. Now those same coding skills are becoming good enough to break things. Recent cybersecurity evaluations involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have produced incidents where AI agents interacted with real systems outside their intended test scope. OpenAI went further, describing the compromise of Hugging...Read More
Ransomware protection is a coordinated set of controls that reduces the likelihood of compromise, detects and contains malicious activity, protects recovery infrastructure and restores operations when an attack succeeds. It spans identity security, vulnerability and patch management, endpoint protection, EDR or XDR, incident response, targeted rollback, immutable backup and disaster recovery. No single control covers...Read More
Zscaler (ZS) is back in the spotlight after management outlined higher capital spending plans tied to AI focused cybersecurity demand, along with fresh Gartner recognition and upbeat reseller and analyst commentary. See our latest analysis for Zscaler. Zscaler’s share price has been volatile, with a 1 month share price return of 23.89% and a 7...Read More
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“I am heartbroken, and I’m angry.” Those are the words John O’Nabigon shared over the weekend after losing another young community member to a drug overdose. The chief of Long Lake #58 First Nation, located about 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, is taking action following the third drug-related death of a...Read More
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a free collection of K-12 cybersecurity resources on Wednesday to help school and district leaders mitigate and respond to their unique cyber risks. The CISA resources include...Read More
Jaydeep Joshi Washington, D.C. — A group of legislators has introduced the bipartisan Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act to the House of Representatives with the intention to strengthen rural hospitals’ protection against cyber threats. The group includes U.S. Reps. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.), Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), Erin Houchin (R-Ind.), Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii), Jefferson Shreve (R-Ind.),...Read More
New York is taking another step to address growing concerns about the impact of social media on children’s mental health, with new regulations that will require platforms to limit addictive features for users under 18. State officials on July 29 released final rules implementing the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation, or SAFE, for Kids Act, which...Read More
Publication Date: August 15, 2026 Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed a near-autonomous AI cyber attack in July 2026 in which autonomous agents mapped 21 connected government systems and compromised 85 accounts [1], validating what Tenable’s Research Special Operations team had already detected while tracking seven incidents and three threat actors within an agentic AI...Read More
