Parents hold images of children who allegedly took their lives due to social media during a protest at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & US Courthouse in Oakland, California, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. Meta Platforms Inc. is headed to court Tuesday for a high-stakes showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general...Read More
National Office of Investigation Chief Hong Sug-gi (Korean National Police Agency) The digital revolution of the 21st century has brought humanity remarkable advances, fundamentally transforming the way we structure our societies and lead our daily lives. However, technological progress always brings new security challenges. Today, the surge in deepfake-based digital sex crimes and the viral...Read More
Photo Credit: Ariana Grande (@arianagrande / Instagram) A judge has approved Ariana Grande’s request to subpoena information that will help reveal the identities of the hackers who allegedly leaked unreleased music and recording session footage. A Los Angeles judge has granted Ariana Grande permission to subpoena information that will help identify the hackers who allegedly...Read More
The entrance to the National Police Agency’s headquarters in western Seoul is seen in this 2020 photo. Yonhap Korea plans to review allowing investigators to lawfully hack into websites distributing illegally filmed sexual material in a push to clamp down on digital sex crimes, officials said Thursday. Under the proposed move, investigators will be able...Read More
Swati KhandelwalAug 19, 2026Cloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used...Read More
eSafety secures enforceable child safety undertaking from Roblox Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from Roblox requiring the gaming platform to strengthen measures designed to protect children from grooming, sexual exploitation and abuse. eSafety said it had concerns that Roblox was not meeting requirements under Australia’s Online Safety Act, including obligations covering contact...Read More
The Australian internet regulator is threatening a gaming giant with legal action if it fails to take steps to protect kids from grooming. Roblox on Thursday received an enforceable undertaking following concerns about exploitation and abuse guardrails on its platform. The eSafety Commission alleged the game was not meeting its obligations under the Online Safety...Read More
States v. Meta: The landmark case that could change social media Several attorneys general allege Meta deliberately created addictive features for children and violated federal privacy laws. WASHINGTON — A federal trial is underway in California, where attorneys general from several states are suing tech giant Meta, accusing the company of designing addictive features on...Read More
Attorneys representing four states argued that Meta (META) developed its products to hook young users on its platforms and harvested the data of children under 13 to its benefit in the latest social media addiction trial on Tuesday. The case, which is being heard before District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the US District Court...Read More
