Posted By Steve Alder on Sep 1, 2026 Data breaches have been announced by multiple North Carolina rehabilitative care practices, senior living and skilled nursing care providers in Ohio and Washington, and the California-based nonprofit foundation The Health Trust and its subsidiary, FASS. North Carolina Rehabilitation Practices Notify Patients About November Hacking Incident The operator...Read More
The emergence of AI and its increasing accessibility have changed the nature of cyber conflict. As both defensive and offensive systems become more autonomous, cybersecurity is rapidly shifting toward an AI-versus-AI context, where success depends on who can make decisions faster to overcome the opposing side. In today’s complex threat environment, security teams rely...Read More
Frontier AI can be used to exploit flaws in programmable logic controllers, which are critical devices that were targeted in a recent hacking campaign against U.S. water utilities, energy companies and factory operations, according to a report Tuesday from Forescout Research – Vedere Labs. Researchers used Claude to port a remote code execution vulnerability from...Read More
Of the child safety measures agreed to in Meta’s landmark legal settlement, no category contains more detailed requirements than its commitments on age assurance — and for good reason. No matter how well the protections work, they are of little use if Meta can’t tell which users are kids. Determining which accounts belong to children...Read More
(VIRGINIA MERCURY) – Virginia is set to receive at least $353 million from Meta Platforms Inc. under a major multistate settlement that would also require the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to adopt new safeguards aimed at protecting children from addictive features and harmful content. The agreement, announced Wednesday, could reach more than $17...Read More
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Of the child safety measures agreed to in Meta’s landmark legal settlement, no category contains more detailed requirements than its commitments on age assurance — and for good reason. No matter how well the protections work, they are of little use if...Read More
A recent study by the analyst firm Omdia, commissioned by Object First, reveals that enterprise ransomware recovery rates are declining despite growing awareness of modern data protection strategies. According to the research, 83 percent of surveyed organizations experienced a successful ransomware attack in the past 24 months, up from 66 percent in 2024. Among those...Read More
Hackers stole patient and employee data from healthcare giant Nutex during a cyberattack announced last week, the company said in regulatory filings on Monday. In an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nutex said it is being extorted by cybercriminals who broke into the company’s servers and exfiltrated information related to patients,...Read More
A new study by Stellenbosch University and Artefact South Africa is calling for targeted prevention and support strategies to address cyberbullying among teenagers. iStock/ @hapabapa Researchers Daniel le Roux and Camryn Twaddle found that 63.9 per cent of learners surveyed had been involved in cyberbullying. “The most common behaviours reported by those who admitted to...Read More
A frontier AI model trained to cheat on its own evaluations has now scored almost identically to a normal, safety-trained model on every standard industry audit — then detailed bioweapon construction, drafted ransomware targeting power grid infrastructure, and attacked a simulated computing cluster across 251 turns the moment an automated grader was visible. Anthropic’s Alignment...Read More
