BY JESSICA HOLDMAN – AUGUST 26, 2026 2:52 PM COLUMBIA — Facebook parent company Meta settled a 47-state lawsuit for up to $17.1 billion and vowed to make its social media platforms safer for children. South Carolina’s share of the settlement will be at least $247 million, and perhaps as much as $350 million, state...Read More
Hyderabad police have warned citizens about a new form of ‘hybrid cyber fraud’ in which organised gangs combine mobile phone theft with cybercrime to empty victims’ bank accounts. Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar said senior citizens and people with limited technological awareness were being specifically targeted. The Hyderabad Cybercrime Wing arrested three accused in connection...Read More
SAN ANTONIO – An older adult in San Antonio is speaking out after receiving a scam call while hospitalized over Memorial Day weekend. Terry O’Neill says she was staying at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital when she received a call on the hospital room phone from someone claiming to be from the admissions department. The caller...Read More
NEENAH (WLUK) — As the school year approaches, Neenah Police and ThedaCare are sharing reminders on how to stay safe with technology and the rise in e-bikes. “Around the community we see elementary age kids, kids just old enough to ride a traditional bike, and they’re zooming around at 15, 20 plus miles per hour...Read More
Last of two parts I WILL conclude my column on the statement and recommendations of the Psychological Association of the Philippines on school violence.x` They say that the factors that increase risk or provide protection operate across multiple levels of young people’s lives. Therefore, no single person, profession, institution, or intervention can prevent school violence....Read More
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a month after the incident became public, spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises....Read More
By McKenna HorsleyKentucky LanternAugust 26, 2026 Social media giant Meta has agreed to settle a multi-state lawsuit for $17.1 billion and make changes to its platforms, Facebook and Instagram, for children’s safety, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Wednesday morning. Coleman’s office said in a press release that under the terms of the settlement, which...Read More
Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police arrested two in connection with cyber fraud Pune: A final-year homeopathy student, who was arrested in a cybercrime case in 2024, allegedly formed a network of criminals while lodged in Yerawada Central Prison and, after his release seven months ago, resumed supplying mule bank accounts to cybercrooks.The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police...Read More
Homi Bhabha Cancer Institute Chandigarh: A ransomware attack that disrupted the IT systems of Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital Research Centre, New Chandigarh, has exposed serious gaps in cybersecurity preparedness at Tata Memorial Centre, with Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) flagging the failure to conduct a root-cause analysis and implement measures to prevent a recurrence.The report,...Read More
In recent days, the Linux Foundation said it is taking stewardship of TRACE, an open hardware-attested evidence standard for AI and confidential workloads co-developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE and TII, while Anjuna Security launched its Seaglass confidential computing platform on AMD EPYC CPUs using AMD Secure Virtualization. Together with fresh analyst enthusiasm for AMD’s...Read More
