Vulnerability disclosure keeps setting records. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reports that CVE submissions rose 263% from 2020 to 2025, and the first three months of 2026 already tracked nearly one-third higher than the same period a year earlier. Every security team feels that curve in its backlog. The curve is not...Read More
Robert Pattinson’s latest A24 outing is pulling from very real and very uncomfortable television history. ‘Primetime‘ is based on Chris Hansen’s real life rise to the top as one of the most famous true crime TV hosts. It is a dramatization built around the show that made him a household name. So what is ‘Primetime’...Read More
An unusual conflict has erupted in the world of cybercrime: the ShinyHunters hacking group has claimed to have compromised the infrastructure of its rival, cl0p, by exploiting a software vulnerability. The dispute between the groups arose over the theft of an exploit last year, which exploited an unknown vulnerability in one of Oracle’s systems. “We...Read More
Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly unavoidable, especially here in South Africa. With frequency on the rise, the requirement to recover as quickly as possible following an attack is becoming an organisational imperative, but the latest State of Ransomware Report by Sophos shows that locally, recovery times are taking longer. The concerning statistic from the Report,...Read More
Most governments conduct offensive cyber operations to keep themselves safe from international threats, steal secrets, or disrupt adversaries. The United States government was one of the earliest and most prolific users of such cyber capabilities, in part by discovering and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities—flaws not yet known to those who made the software, and for which...Read More
A state supreme court ruling is sparking a major debate over constitutional rights and public safety as more than 20,000 sex offenders are being removed from Michigan’s registry. Michigan State Police have removed more than 20,000 people from the state’s sex offender registry following a landmark Michigan Supreme Court ruling — slashing the list by...Read More
Interior view of House of Commons at Canada Parliament. Ottawa, Canada – December 15, 2025. Shutterstock When the Canadian government introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, in June, much of the news coverage likened it to Australia’s social media ban. While Bill C-34 contains an under-sixteen social-media limit, it also grants a new...Read More
Three researchers from Hacktron AI, a small cybersecurity company, got their hands on OpenAI’s internal code repository, the parent company of ChatGPT, in less than 72 hours. And the tool that opened the door for them is called Claude, the AI from Anthropic, its direct competitor. It all started on OpenAI’s help forum, a community...Read More
For a television show that was canceled nearly two decades ago, “To Catch a Predator” has been having quite a moment. For years, the show entertained Americans by finding men seeking sex with minors in online chatrooms and luring them into decoy houses. The host, “Dateline NBC” correspondent Chris Hansen, would then confront the men...Read More
