A judge has granted Ariana Grande fast-track subpoena power to identify hackers who allegedly stole her unreleased music. Grande’s legal team persuaded the Los Angeles court that speed was crucial to identifying those who are suspected of stealing music, photos and videos, and selling the material on the dark web for “significant sums of money”....Read More
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Private equity investments spurred an uptick in M&A in the managed services industry during the first three months of the year, according to research by Channel Dive sister company Omdia. Acquisitions increased 73% year over...Read More
OAKLAND, California – A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Aug 19 that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram. Arturo Bejar, a vocal Meta critic, made the allegation during his second day of testimony in a landmark trial over...Read More
“Every one of them has appeared throughout our investigations,” Kenner’s Police Chief said after releasing a list of social, gaming, chat, and dating apps. KENNER, La. — From gaming platforms to social media and messaging apps, Kenner police say parents need to know what their children are doing online. That’s the message behind a recently...Read More
Meta knowingly hooked and exploited children, a US federal court heard Tuesday in a trial against the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users. In what many experts have called social media’s “big tobacco moment”, a coalition of states is asking that Meta be penalised by...Read More
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A Meta insider continued his testimony Wednesday in the landmark trial in which four states claim the tech giant chose profits over teen safety and knowingly misled the public about supposed addictive features of its social media platforms, resulting in negative impacts to the mental health of young users. During direct...Read More
An illegal intrusion into an IT system is a serious criminal offense in China, one that carries a 3-year jail term. Even so, some adrenaline junkies inadvertently go to great lengths to invite the ire of law enforcement agencies, as members of an API relay station centered on distributing ‘jailbroken’ AI models have just found...Read More
Cybercrime , Data Breach Notification , Data Privacy CareCloud Said Compromise Involved One of Its AWS Cloud Environments Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • August 19, 2026 CareCloud is notifying nearly 3.8 million individuals of a March data theft potentially compromising their personal and health information. (Image: CareCloud) Cloud-based electronic health records vendor CareCloud...Read More
SAN ANTONIO – A new semester at the University of Texas at San Antonio was scheduled to begin Wednesday. Instead, students are waiting another week to return to class after the university detected an attempted cybersecurity breach and took some systems offline as a precaution. UTSA said the attempted attack was stopped before reaching its...Read More
Australia’s internet regulator has reportedly secured a court-enforceable undertaking from Roblox to improve child safety measures tests found adult strangers could still breach protective safeguards introduced by the world’s biggest gaming platform. The agreement marks a sign of progress for the eSafety Commissioner as it intends to exercise its regulatory authority to make online platforms...Read More
