Two senators have sent a letter to TikTok executives demanding answers about an experiment the company ran that withheld a safety feature from millions of users, including a teenager who died by suicide. The senators, co-sponsors of an online child safety bill, called TikTok’s decision to conduct the test “depraved.” The existence of the experiment,...Read More
NEWS A Romeo High School sophomore, DJ Phillips, was victimized by a 15-year-old girl from Novi who created fake online profiles using his images, leading to identity theft and cyberbullying. As a result, DJ faced bullying, public humiliation, and physical assault, prompting a police investigation that traced the harassment back to the Novi teen. The...Read More
(TNS) — Artificial intelligence is becoming both a weapon and a shield in cybersecurity. Attackers can use it to produce more convincing phishing messages, search for vulnerabilities faster and lower the technical barrier to launching attacks. Defenders can use the same technology to examine networks, automate routine work and identify weaknesses before criminals exploit them....Read More
I’ve seen many people voice concerns about the child safety trial involving Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and how it could wreak havoc on the business. Not only could it result in significant fines and changes to its processes, but it may end up crippling the stock along the way. I don’t agree with that. I’m...Read More
CHICAGO (AP) — Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is fighting allegations in a California federal court that it contributes to the youth mental...Read More
(InvestigateTV) — The FBI is warning the public that scammers are impersonating employees of its Internet Crime Complaint Center, known as IC3, to target victims a second time. IC3 is where people who have been scammed online can report the crime. Paul Keener, a cybersecurity strategist at GuidePoint Security, said the scheme is particularly harmful...Read More
Unknowingly, a member of key personnel is living two separate lives. On the clock, they are a highly-trusted systems administrator, but in their personal time, they moonlight on the deep and dark web, advertising their trust and access to the highest bidder. One day, they get a simple offer: $15,000 in the crypto of their...Read More
Eric White Cyber security reports warning about AI-assisted attacks now for a while. Your team seems to have found another report of one that is meaningfully different than another example of hackers using new tools. We obviously, the big one making headlines was OpenAI, AI system hacking into a rival company. This one is a...Read More
A critical sandbox escape vulnerability was discovered and patched in isolated-vm, a library for running JavaScript code inside an isolated process. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow attackers to hijack the host’s control flow, which could enable remote code execution. Isolated-vm is downloaded more than 1 million times per week and is also used as...Read More
The first APJ-based AI security partner to achieve this milestone DALLAS, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TrendAI™, a global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704), today announced it has surpassed $1 billion in global AWS Marketplace sales, becoming the first APJ-based AI security partner to achieve this milestone....Read More
