Hackers compromised the official HBO Max account on Reddit and used it in a malvertising campaign leading to a ClickFix landing page. During a 48-hour window, the attackers pushed 108 malicious advertisements across five lure groups as part of the campaign, tracked as PasteSwitch. Using the verified u/hbomax account, the threat actors targeted both macOS...Read More

KEY TAKEAWAYS: Buying cybersecurity software does not provide adequate protection unless tools are properly configured, monitored and maintained. Businesses should use multiple layers of security, including MFA, SIEM technology and around-the-clock SOC monitoring. Cybersecurity should be treated as an ongoing risk-management strategy rather than a one-time technology purchase. Penetration...Read More

AI safety concerns could support a multiyear investment theme in cybersecurity, access controls and data recovery. My working view is that businesses will need to spend more to deploy AI safely. Investors should test that thesis against customer demand, profits and valuations, while watching whether tighter controls also slow spending on AI infrastructure. The next...Read More

Apple first previewed a new set of child safety features at WWDC in June, and parents can now start using them with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. The update gives families more control over which apps children can access, what websites they can visit, who they can communicate with, and how much time...Read More

A week of advising parents and caregivers to get their car seats checked by certified child passenger safety technicians. (ATLANTA) – The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) reminds all parents and caregivers to have their child’s car safety seat checked on a regular basis to make sure it is properly installed. The National Highway Traffic...Read More

The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Aisling Parkes, has warned that introducing an age limit at which children can set up their own social media accounts carries the risk of blocking young people from having an input and restricts freedom of expression. According to international obligations, under the Committee on the Rights of the Child,...Read More

An attacker exploited a Gnosis Safe wallet on Ethereum, removing about 2,900 rsETH, worth roughly $7.8 million, on Tuesday. An automated bot known as “yoink” front-ran the attack transaction and extracted the tokens, security firms BlockSec, Blockaid and SlowMist said. The victim’s wallet was set up to let a helper contract move money for it,...Read More

A threat actor targeted multiple vulnerabilities in Fortinet and F5 products to gain access to Thai broadband provider 3BB’s systems, Hunt.io reports. The attack was discovered after the hackers left their intrusion arsenal in an open directory hosted on infrastructure in Thailand. The directory contained 298 files across 30 subdirectories: multiple exploitation scripts, brute-force and...Read More

AI has shortened the distance between discovery and exploitation considerably, and the acquisition system has not kept pace. Mike Centrella September 15, 2026 5:34 pm 4 min read Federal agencies rarely struggle to identify their cyber risks. They struggle to close them in time. A June Government Accountability Office report on federal cloud procurement confirmed...Read More

Last month in Savar, a father noticed an alarming change in his seven-year-old son after he returned from his madrasa: withdrawn and ill. The boy had been sent there to learn the Quran and live under the care of adults his family had trusted. Instead, according to a case filed by his father, he was...Read More