WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has unveiled a proposed law banning children younger than 16 from using social media platforms, citing what he said Monday was “harm being done to a generation” of young people. However, the bill hasn’t yet attracted enough support to pass into law because two...Read More
Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and June 2026, according to Black Kite. The analysis covered 13,336 incidents with known revenue and defined mid-market companies as businesses with annual revenue between $10 million and $1 billion. Their share...Read More
In a notice filed with the California attorney general’s data breach registry on Friday, Apollo said an investigation found intruders had unauthorized access to some of its cloud-based systems between July 6 and July 10. The firm said it wasn’t until August 12 that it pinned down exactly which categories of information were taken: full...Read More
The cybercriminal group xpl0itrs claims to have compromised the infrastructure of Gruppo Spaggiari Parma, one of the main technology providers for the Italian educational system, and to have stolen 6.1 TB of data from more than 3,000 schools. Hackmanac, a platform specialized in monitoring cyber threats, reported the alleged intrusion this past Thursday. According to...Read More
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Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. What are other countries and companies doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over the impact of social media on children’s health and safety?...Read More
Zero-Click Grok Chat History Theft: Adversa AI Demonstrates Cryptographic Context Injection Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2026 New Cryptographic Context Injection technique bypasses AI guardrails via AES-encrypted payloads, leaking full Grok chat histories zero-click Adversa AI researcher Rony Utevsky devised a new attack technique, called Cryptographic Context Injection, that bypasses AI safety filters by sending instructions...Read More
According to the Market Growth Reports, the global Cybersecurity Market is valued at approximately USD 181,625 million in 2026 and is projected to reach around USD 302,445 million by 2035, registering a CAGR of 5.8% during 2026-2035. Pune, Maharashtra, India, August 24, 2026 /MarketersMEDIA/ — The Cybersecurity Market is becoming increasingly important as organizations across...Read More
Sydney: New Zealand’s conservative coalition government will introduce a bill in Parliament on Monday that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, and proposes fines of up to 10% of a platform’s global revenue for non-compliance. The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages, including...Read More
Several methods could be used to do this, including “using existing account information, facial age estimation, digital ID services, and formal ID”. Age-restricted platforms are defined by the Government as being internet services accessible in New Zealand which enable users to exchange content with others, and which have one or more specified features. These include...Read More
