A whistleblower whose testimony helped build a child safety case against Meta Platforms said on Wednesday that the firm’s settlement with a coalition of U.S. states does not meaningfully address harms from social media that he described in court. Former Meta safety engineerArturo Bejar told a judge and eight jurors last week that the firm...Read More
The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram and Facebook that will apply...Read More
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , The Future of AI & Cybersecurity Unit 42 Says Human Experts Will Increasingly Oversee AI-Driven Defense Work Emilia David • August 28, 2026 Image: Shutterstock The job of security professionals will shift more toward administration as security moves to more autonomous...Read More
JFrog (FROG) is back in focus after an Outperform rating from RBC Capital Markets and new product news on software supply chain protection related to autonomous AI coding agents. RBC’s Outperform call and JFrog’s new security integrations with Zscaler, Cloudflare and Netskope come on top of a strong quarter and raised guidance. The stock’s 30-day...Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Two Kansas City women are suing a security officer and his former employer, alleging he used his uniform and badge to sexually assault them. Monsees & Mayer says the lawsuits were filed on Wednesday, Aug. 26, in Jackson County Circuit Court. The suits come two months after the officer, Brandon...Read More
In an open letter published Thursday by OpenAI, more than 100 firms called on technology companies, government and organizations of all kinds to increase their cyber defenses. Signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other companies, the letter said there is a limited window of time before artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks become more widespread and...Read More
Sophos Inc. Malicious email is the leading attack method, and recovery costs now average $2.26 million OXFORD, U.K., Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today released its annual State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report, which found that identity-based attack techniques were used in 85% of ransomware attacks against education...Read More
Russian-speaking cybercriminals spent seven weeks this spring running a coding assistant like a junior pentester, and it worked. According to an exclusive Reuters report published August 27, 2026, and a companion investigation from Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security, an affiliate of the Aurora ransomware operation used the AI agent inside Cursor, the code editor SpaceX now...Read More
(Hong Kong SAR, China, August 26, 2026) — A new AI-powered portal designed to detect illegal wildlife trade online has been unveiled, giving conservation and law enforcement professionals a powerful tool in the fight against wildlife cybercrime. IFAW officially unveiled the AI Guardian of Endangered Species Portal today at the AI for Nature: How AI...Read More
(Hong Kong SAR, China, August 26, 2026) — A new AI-powered portal designed to detect illegal wildlife trade online has been unveiled, giving conservation and law enforcement professionals a powerful tool in the fight against wildlife cybercrime. IFAW officially unveiled the AI Guardian of Endangered Species Portal today at the AI for Nature: How AI...Read More
