On 23 July 2026, a confrontation between two groups of Chinese nationals in Colombo Port City led to an abduction and murder. Sri Lankan police have stated that three Chinese men were confronted by a group of around twenty others, threatened with firearms, assaulted and abducted. Two were later found bound tied up inside a...Read More

Hackers deployed an AI system to carry out sophisticated cyberattacks on Taiwan, officials said, in what experts believe is the first known fully autonomous attack on government agencies. Over four days in July, the AI agents were able to map 21 government systems, crack 85 government user accounts, and extract 2,500 personnel records, according to...Read More

The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less 13 Aug 2026  •  , 4 min. read Hugging Face disclosed that it had been attacked by AI; OpenAI came clean and declared that it was two of their AI models that had caused the breach. This is the...Read More

As Iranian hackers probe U.S. water infrastructure, the threat is less about shutting down the American water supply than demonstrating how widely an adversary can reach. Admiral (Ret.) Mike Rogers, a former director of the National Security Agency and commander of both U.S. Cyber Command and the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, says the decentralized nature...Read More

To stream CBS 8 on your phone, you need the CBS 8 app. Download the CBS 8 app New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez says Meta knowingly exposed children to predators and addictive features, prioritizing profits over online safety. Author:...Read More

The government has taken an initiative to establish a dedicated cell under the Prime Minister’s Office to combat cyberbullying and strengthen digital safety, according to sources at the PMO. The move, cleared in principle by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, aims to create a central mechanism to respond to online harassment, particularly on social media platforms,...Read More

When we think about security threats, we generally imagine them coming from far away across the wider internet. But what if the connection between you and your ISP was the target? [Rithwik Jayasimha] and [Rithvik Vibhu] have explored how fiber to the home connections may not be as secure as you would hope. The hack...Read More

The Government has been developing its own approach, with National aiming to introduce legislation and secure its passage before the 2026 election, although exactly how age verification and enforcement would work remains under development. Boys fear a ban will do more harm than good For five Tauranga Boys’ College students, social media is not simply...Read More

When Nikesh Arora spent roughly $10 million buying Palo Alto Networks shares in late March, investors were questioning whether artificial intelligence could disrupt the cybersecurity industry itself. Palo Alto’s stock had fallen more than 20% since the start of the year, while growing concerns about increasingly capable AI models were weighing on cybersecurity companies across...Read More

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