By Billy Begas The House of Representatives, under Speaker Faustino Dy III, is pushing to make online spaces safer for young Filipinos, especially on social media. During the LegisHear in South Cotabato over the weekend, Senior Deputy Speaker Ferdinand Hernandez said he and Dy have been pushing for stronger safeguards on children’s access to social...Read More
Vadodara: Victims of cyberfraud in Anand district have received some relief after the cybercrime police restored Rs 1.13 crore that had been frozen in connection with cybercrime cases over the past two months.According to the Anand Cybercrime police station, the amount was returned to victims following intervention by the cybercrime team.As part of the process,...Read More
Hyderabad: Telangana police have facilitated the refund of ₹139.6 crore to about 24,000 cyber fraud victims so far this year, with a significant portion of the money being returned through the Lok Adalat and the newly introduced Money Restoration Module (MRM). During the recently held National Lok Adalat, Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB), along with...Read More
In the past year, FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has seen a growing number of attempted malware and cyberattacks around their critical infrastructure. “Our defensive systems block tens of thousands of automated malicious connection attempts against public facing services each month,” said Brian Harrell, the chief security officer at the company that serves 2.1 million electric customers across...Read More
Even a decade ago, the horror stories behind some of the 13 children’s online protection bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday seemed the stuff of fiction. An AI chatbot coaching a teenager to isolate himself from friends and family and ultimately take his own life. Children’s AI-enabled plush toys detailing how to light...Read More
Before social media, being a teenager meant finding creative ways to stay entertained and connected with friends in the real world. Sharing music meant carefully burning CDs and decorating them with questionable marker art, hanging out required actual planning, and embarrassing moments weren’t permanently documented online. Life moved a little slower, but somehow every small...Read More
Wedbush cited CrowdStrike’s platform strength and its positioning around AI-driven and agentic cybersecurity. Elastic also received an ‘Outperform’ rating, with Wedbush raising its price target to $125 on expectations for a potential fiscal 2027 growth inflection. Check Point, Fortinet, Varonis and Telos were downgraded, although Wedbush raised its price targets for Fortinet and Varonis. CrowdStrike...Read More
If you’re a parent, chances are you’ve had some concerns about your children interacting with social media. With organizations such as the American Psychological Association raising mental health warnings around adolescents and social media use, it’s no surprise that many caregivers are struggling to know the best ways to keep kids safe on these platforms....Read More
Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent’s Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor. Researchers at cybersecurity company Gen Digital warn that the security issue is a one-click remote code execution (RCE) flaw. “We observed this vulnerability actively exploited in the wild by...Read More
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real chance AI could...Read More
