DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) – A Morgan County judge is warning the public about online scams after a hacker took over her Facebook account and used it to steal money from her friends. Jennifer Howell, a longtime Morgan County circuit court judge, woke up one morning in early February to find herself locked out of her...Read More
Chicago FBI’s cyber squad is on the front lines of a digital war against an international cyber mafia. Special Agent Ali Sadiq tells the I-Team the dirty digital tricks of cyber criminals are evolving at a rapid pace. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch “It involves malware or malicious software that...Read More
The true language of an AI model is math — or in tech lingo, matrix multiplication — but a quirk of how models are built means they communicate with the outside world in English. So when OpenAI’s agents, in their hack of Hugging Face this summer, figured out a way to build a kind of...Read More
ai and ml Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren’t enough to keep frontier models at bay. “Data diodes” might do the job To prevent frontier AI models breaking out of test environments and collaborating to hack other companies, we may have to rethink the network architectures used for model training. Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, CEO of Intuition Machines,...Read More
3 September 2026, Cairo, Egypt – As health systems become increasingly dependent on digital technologies, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is calling for stronger cybersecurity measures to protect patients, health services and critical health infrastructure from cyber threats. A regional webinar on “Cybersecurity in Health Care: Strengthening Health Security...Read More
Buckingham Palace has more than doubled its taxpayer-funded cyber security spending amid concerns over Russian hackers targeting the Royal Family. In a major overhaul noted in this year’s Sovereign Grant, the palace has increased its digital services expenditure from £2.4m in 2016-17 to £5.6m in 2025-26. In a review presented to the government, the palace...Read More
POCSO: Kerala HC delivers key ruling The Kerala High Court has held that kissing a child’s penis, when done with sexual intent, amounts to penetrative sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.The ruling came while the high court dismissed an appeal filed by a man convicted under the POCSO Act...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
What followed was that under-16s were barred from 10 social media platforms, with hefty fines for platforms that do not take reasonable steps to prevent under-16s from having accounts. When the law was passed, though, Kelly did not feel happiness. “You can’t get your child back, but it’s (a) relief that other people might,” she...Read More
The Brief Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested four men during an undercover sting targeting online child predators in south Hall County. Authorities charged the North Georgia suspects with felony offenses after they offered money to engage in sexual acts with officers posing as minors online. The weekend operation involved joint efforts from local investigators...Read More
