Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday night ended its fiscal 2026 on a high note and signaled that the good times will continue in the new year. The numbers and conference call commentary reinforce the essential role of cybersecurity in the artificial intelligence era. Revenue in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter increased 34% year over year...Read More
DPDP Act, 2023 And Rules 2025 — India Already Has The Stricter Statute It is worth being precise here: on paper, India’s children’s data regime is already more stringent than what Meta has agreed to in the US. Section 9 of the DPDP Act sets a bright-line rule: anyone under 18 is a “child,” with...Read More
(TNND) — California’s Legislature passed a bill Monday to keep kids under 16 off social media platforms with so-called addictive features. The bill targets features that have become part and parcel of social media apps: algorithms, infinite scroll, autoplay and notifications. Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, a Long Beach Democrat and the lead author of the bill,...Read More
LAS VEGAS, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A two-decade-old Russian hacking operation dubbed “Sality” is being dismantled, U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced on Tuesday. U.S. officials said they had seized the web domains hackers used to take over computers to send spam, carry out distributed denial-of-service operations or steal cryptocurrency, while CrowdStrike said it had...Read More
The proposed Delhi Digital Crime and Cyber Coordination Centre (D4C) of the Delhi Police will have a multi-layered structure with dedicated units for cybercrime investigation, financial fraud mitigation, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, cyber security and public awareness, according to a government circular. The centre will include an administrative wing, a cyber investigation wing and...Read More
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into...Read More
Advanced reactor developers preparing for U.S. military installations now have a new cybersecurity team built around the unusual demands of those projects. OSC Global and InfraShield have launched Janus Cyber, an initiative focused on securing reactors through design, regulatory authorization and eventual operation. The challenge goes beyond protecting a reactor from conventional cyber threats. Developers...Read More
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Virginia will receive $364 million as part of a nationwide settlement with Meta, resolving claims that the company hid the addictive design of its apps and misled the public about the risks to children, according to Attorney General Jay Jones. The investigation began in 2021 and now resolves claims from nearly...Read More
A landmark $17.1 billion mult-state settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc.— considered to be the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s – has been announced by state attorneys general, who joined in a lawsuit about dangers to youth on social media platforms. West Virginia Attorney General JB...Read More
(TNND) — California’s Legislature passed a bill Monday to keep kids under 16 off social media platforms with so-called addictive features. The bill targets features that have become part and parcel of social media apps: algorithms, infinite scroll, autoplay and notifications. Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, a Long Beach Democrat and the lead author of the bill,...Read More
