MACOMB, Ill. — Western Illinois University has been awarded an $89,401.33 GenCyber grant to host the WIU GenCyber Cybersecurity Camp in June 2027. The free, hands-on camp will welcome 30 students entering grades 9–12, including 15 male and 15 female participants. The program will recruit students from rural communities in Illinois and surrounding states, particularly...Read More
Primetime is a wild ride, but it’s also one that eventually loses momentum. Anna Faris, as Hansen’s long-suffering wife, is underused, as is the always excellent Wever, who is at the center of a subplot that goes nowhere. There are visualizations and reenactments that feel entirely unnecessary. There’s also a distinct messiness and lack of...Read More
Al Qadsiah Club and LogRhythm | Exabeam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for collaboration in the field of cybersecurity. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of LEAP 2026, reflecting both parties’ commitment to supporting innovation and strengthening digital security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The collaboration brings together...Read More
Everyone agrees that social media should be more heavily regulated to protect young people. Everyone is wrong. It should be less regulated to protect young people. Regulation provides a semblance of safety, an illusion of safety. It is better to admit that there is no possibility of safety here. Imagine a dangerous cliff path, from...Read More
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Sept. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Your teen has been flipping through Instagram for nearly an hour when they get a pop-up that says: “SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Social media is associated with significant mental health harms for children and young adults.” What are the odds this will stop their scrolling?...Read More
Meta’s massive landmark settlement with almost every U.S. state attorney general last month will have ripple effects for digital responsibility professionals for years to come. Much has already been written about the innovative legal approach to social media addiction in the lawsuit, its unique provisions that push for other competitors’ platforms to meet the same...Read More
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Thursday it would begin rolling out its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model to select customers, saying it had built in safeguards to mitigate security risks. “At this level of capability, safety has to become our top priority,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman told reporters on a call about the...Read More
It seems our children have always been under threat of media perils. Backwards-masking music, subliminal messages, AI deepfakes and music and video game violence have all been given attention in varying degrees. With the start of a new school year comes another warning, this time about cell phones — particularly in the classroom — and...Read More
Hackers exploited Lenovo’s flawed email verification to hijack ~5,000 Dropbox accounts Attackers created Lenovo IDs with victims’ emails, bypassing login; 2FA absence worsened impact Dropbox ended Lenovo ID logins, expired sessions, and urged password changes plus 2FA setup Around 5,000 Dropbox user accounts were compromised when hackers found a vulnerability in the Lenovo ID verification...Read More
Today, payment fraud is no longer arriving as an obviously suspicious request. It is arriving with a paper trail, an approval history, and no reason to prompt the receiver to question its integrity or ask any further questions. What’s more is the attack landscape is expanding as AI tools lower the barrier for youth and...Read More
