Ariana Grande attends the AFI Awards Luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 9, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Ariana Grande is about to confront the hackers who allegedly stole her music and videos. In a Wednesday order obtained by ABC News, Judge Mark H. Epstein...Read More
Feds have hit 17 Iranians with criminal charges for allegedly conducting a years-long campaign of cyber attacks — including trying to extort HBO for $6 million in bitcoin. The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that the 17 individuals were working with the Mabna Institute, which carried out hacking campaigns on behalf of Iran’s Islamic...Read More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is formally soliciting feedback on a new guide designed to integrate artificial intelligence into cybersecurity assessments. NIST Special Publication 1353 ipd details practical applications of AI for analyzing an organization’s progress with the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. The document provides structured AI prompts as tools for practitioners, enabling them...Read More
The UAE Banking Cybersecurity & Resilience Forum 2026 is a high-level executive gathering bringing together banking leaders, regulators, CISOs, CIOs, risk and compliance executives, cybersecurity experts, and technology innovators to address the evolving cybersecurity and resilience priorities shaping the UAE’s financial sector. As all major banks in UAE continue to accelerate digital banking, cloud adoption,...Read More
Windows 11 has a command-line tool called Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), which is mostly used by enterprises, but it’s also present on consumer PCs, and it has often been abused by cybercriminals to deploy malware or ransomware against even home users. Windows Latest recently reported that Windows 11’s next Patch Tuesday update removes WMIC...Read More
Opening statements are set to kick off Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court, where states are seeking billions of dollars in damages for social media harms to children. Opening statements are set to kick off Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court,...Read More
A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was responsible for a culture that may have led the company to shirk its responsibility to protect children who use its Facebook and Instagram platforms from harm. Arturo Bejar, a vocal Meta critic who worked at the company from 2009 to...Read More
Diana Novak Jones and Jonathan Stempel Updated August 19, 2026 — 8:29am,first published 3:20am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Meta Platforms has rejected accusations by US states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms...Read More
If you are a malicious hacker, cybersecurity professionals may very well be the worst people in the world to try to hack, as there is a very good chance they are going to catch you. A person pretending to work for a leading crypto news site targeted several cybersecurity professionals around the time of the...Read More
One of the most anticipated video games of last decade is set to release later this year, but a gameplay footage leak may have spoiled the surprise for millions of fans. “Grand Theft Auto VI” will be unleashed on a frenzied gaming community on Nov. 19, 2026, barring any more unforeseen delays, and developer Rockstar...Read More
