A public exploit called ShieldBreak defeats Microsoft’s July fix by turning Windows Defender into the escalation path. There is still no patch. That should change how security teams hear the phrase “fully patched.” ShieldBreak went public in mid-August, and it earns the attention it’s getting for a reason most privilege escalation stories don’t. It hits...Read More
DENVER (KKTV) – Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Wednesday that Meta Inc. will pay over $17 billion and implement child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook under a nationwide settlement. Attorney General’s office officials said the agreement, which is subject to court approval, resolves claims that Meta designed Instagram with “addictive features,” knowingly exposed young users...Read More
Imagine for a moment that you’re an Australian 14-year-old (if you are an Australian 14-year-old, well, thank you for reading Business Insider, first of all. You can skip ahead). Life is already hard enough — your toilets flush the other way, and there’s that whole cane toad problem. But worst of all, as of December 2025, your...Read More
FORT MEADE, Md. — Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory titled, “China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems.” This guidance alerts organizations about China-linked cyber threat actors using the acronyms QTFY,...Read More
When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI started unexpectedly communicating, it led to a large group banding together in order to hack into Hugging Face. “We consider this incident a ‘warning shot’ for us and for the world”, OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, wrote in its report. In July, OpenAI’s models went rogue...Read More
Operational silos, technological sprawl and cloud-platform blind spots are serious issues preventing organizations from spotting and repelling cyberattacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned in a new report. Those were three of the main factors that allowed CISA’s red team to break into the networks of two unnamed partner organizations — one a...Read More
It has been just a couple of months since Toby Weiss took over as the CEO of enterprise cybersecurity software company Securonix, headquartered in Texas. He has assumed the role at a time when AI is transforming the threat landscape, with autonomous agents escaping a sandbox during an OpenAI safety evaluation and compromising parts of...Read More
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that he, along with 50 other attorneys general, has reached a $17 billion settlement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit accused Meta of violating the law by designing addictive features targeted at children and misleading the public about platform...Read More
On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay about $17 billion to settle claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and teens, misled the public about the platforms’ safety and improperly collected children’s data. The settlement requires Meta to adopt protections for young users, including a combined two-hour daily limit on Facebook...Read More
Listen to the article 10 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta has announced a range of new measures designed to better protect teen users from the harms of social media overuse. However, questions remain regarding what that might mean for social media engagement more broadly, and how...Read More
