A small power plant in the UK was shut down during a cyber attack. The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK’s energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyber attacks. The Telegraph...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. “When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,” TrendAI, Trend Micro’s enterprise...Read More
By Angelis Pseftis A cyberattack does not have to knock out 911 to put officers and the public at risk. Phones and radios may still work while computer-aided dispatch (CAD), records, warrant checks, jail systems or digital evidence disappear. At that point, the question for command staff is no longer, “Is this really a cyber...Read More
This month, a federal trial against the world’s biggest social media kicked off in Oakland. California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey are leading a lawsuit that accuses Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, of knowingly creating products that put children and teenagers at risk. And as KQED’s Rachael Myrow explains, the outcome of...Read More
A woman faculty member of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has lodged a complaint alleging cyber harassment, character assassination and online defamation against a man running a social media page that allegedly targeted her, police said on Sunday. According to police, the complainant named a social media page titled ‘Voice of AMU’, alleging that objectionable material...Read More
A small power plant in the UK was shut down for four days last month by a cyber attack carried out by hackers believed to be linked to Iran. Energy bosses have since been briefed by Britain’s security chiefs on the attack with advice, direction and next steps. British officials did not deny a report...Read More
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. OpenAI has imposed a two-week pause on frontier-model development after internal signals indicated that an upcoming system known as Astra could reach a “Critical” level of cybersecurity capability under the company’s Preparedness Framework. Strengthening Security Controls The company...Read More
Today is Sunday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2026. There are 130 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 23, 2003, former priest John Geoghan (GAY’-gun), the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in...Read More
Key insights Is social media use reasonably safe for children and adolescents? We call this the “product safety question”, and we present seven lines of evidence showing that the answer is no. The evidence of harm is found in: 1) surveys of young people; 2) surveys of parents, teachers, and clinicians; 3) contents from corporate...Read More
Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – Social media platforms that fail to keep teenagers safe from features that fuel addiction may be required to raise their minimum age beyond the current industry standard of 13. This is part of the Government’s priority to make social media safer by design, which includes cracking down on...Read More
