As businesses accelerate their migration to cloud environments, cybercriminals are increasingly shifting their attention from infrastructure vulnerabilities to one of the weakest links in the security chain: user credentials. Stolen usernames, passwords, session tokens and authentication cookies can provide attackers with legitimate-looking access to cloud resources, often allowing them to bypass traditional perimeter defenses. For...Read More
The Tell Someone: Child Safety Small Grants Program provides funding for Tasmanian community organisations to develop projects that prevent child sexual abuse, grooming, and harmful sexual behaviours while strengthening child-safe practices. The programme offers grants from $500 to $10,000 (GST exclusive) to support organisations at different stages of their child safety development journey. Eligible applicants...Read More
Alexa PenaVega’s “heart is heavy” after the death of Hayden Panettiere, most notably because it marks the third passing of a fellow child star in 2026. The “Spy Kids” actor noted in a statement on social media that she rose to fame with and grew up alongside the likes of Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh...Read More
Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara is under an official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation for possibly committing cybercrimes. Carbonara, who is running in the primary election in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, is being accused of “willfully targeting” media companies by filing fake copyright infringement claims. The Floridian obtained the first complaint against Carbonara last...Read More
New Delhi: What do former ambassador Navtej Sarna and senior journalist Tavleen Singh have in common? They are both among several prominent Indians whose X accounts have been hacked over the past few weeks, with hackers using the profiles to post near-identical messages about investing in cryptocurrency. The posts claim the account holder had been...Read More
Blumira has announced the launch of Hearth, a vendor-agnostic AI command center designed to help security teams coordinate their environments from one place. Hearth integrates with both Blumira and non-Blumira customers and is designed to consolidate the command center rather than the security tools themselves. According to Blumira, the approach allows teams to continue using...Read More
Among the thousands of legal claims Meta faces over child safety across its platforms, none may prove more consequential than one going to trial in California this week. The lawsuit accuses the social media giant of contributing to a youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features to hook children on its platforms....Read More
France’s Constitutional Council has declared that legislation limiting social media to kids under 15 constitutes “a disproportionate infringement of freedom of expression and communication and, on the other hand, have not provided the legal safeguards necessary to ensure the right to respect for private life.” In short, this throws a wrench into France’s plan to...Read More
Meta is kicking off a court battle with some of the highest stakes yet. But it is far from the only litigation facing the social media giant and its competitors. In a federal trial beginning Tuesday in Oakland, California, the Instagram and Facebook parent company is fighting claims that it has contributed to the youth...Read More
The Gujarat CID has arrested a 25-year-old man from Assam who is allegedly linked to 1,090 cybercrimes worth Rs 1,071.5 crore across the country, including digital arrest cases. Police said the accused, Rafiqul Alam, was connected to China-based criminals and played a key role in moving tainted money through a large network of bank accounts...Read More
