Keeping with Apple’s pledge that Tim Cook would remain involved in Apple’s government relations around the world after stepping down as CEO, he met this week with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Here are the details. Tim Cook discusses EU Kids Act with EC President When Apple announced that Tim Cook...Read More
Child predators are arguably the most reviled demographic in society. So when someone like Chris Hansen, the former NBC Dateline journalist and host of the To Catch a Predator series, decides to take up the mantle of exposing them to the public, he is naturally praised as a hero. But, as is revealed in Lance...Read More
Robert Pattinson transports you into a sleazy fever dream in mere moments in his latest film, Primetime, centred on the 2000s Dateline NBC series To Catch a Predator, hosted by Chris Hansen (played by Pattinson). In a fictionalized account of the circumstances that led to this show’s popularity and its impact on the people who...Read More
Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a powerful cybercrime platform that used AI at every step of the attack chain—from compromising email accounts to designing intricate roadmaps for financial fraud and scams. While EvilTokens helped cybercriminals access email accounts, at the center of the service was an AI-style chatbot that could analyze a victim’s inbox and help...Read More
Microsoft, along with a group of industry partners, disrupted EvilTokens, a short-lived but highly consequential cybercrime platform that investigators linked to more than 12,000 compromised Microsoft customer email inboxes across more than 10,000 organizations globally, the company said Tuesday. Acting on federal court order Sept. 15, Microsoft and partners seized 50 websites the phishing-as-a-service used...Read More
Keio Corporation announced on September 26 that servers at its group companies had been hit by a ransomware attack, causing system disruptions across several group businesses. The company detected the attack in the early hours of the same day and immediately notified police while implementing containment measures including network isolation. No data leaks have been...Read More
Ransomware remains a persistent and disruptive threat to industrial organizations, continuing to impact critical operations and challenge the security and resilience of essential infrastructure. Following the record-high ransomware activity observed in 2025, ransomware pressure remained high into Q1 2026, reinforcing that ransomware targeting of industrial sectors has entered a sustained state in which adversaries focus...Read More
We are learning more this week as it appears OpenAI is tapping the brakes on the training of its latest artificial intelligence models. This comes after new reports that indicate its automated AI agents had accessed U.S. government websites in ways that were not expected as they were gathering and distributing information. LiveNOW’s J Russell...Read More
Six cybersecurity leaders from BeyondTrust, Check Point Software Technologies, Exabeam, Horizon3, Saviynt and Secure Code Warrior have provided their response to the news that an OpenAI agent had infiltrated Australia’s Medicare system. While the breach raises important questions for the nation’s government, cybersecurity leaders and business community, the country is left asking whether Australia’s regulatory and...Read More
This article was co-authored by Andrew Simpson, Trainee Solicitor. Meta’s historic US$17.1 billion child-safety settlement has redefined the digital enforcement landscape. The US Attorneys General have hailed it as both the largest Big Tech settlement to date, and the largest US consumer-protection resolution in US history. This outcome forces a critical regulatory shift onto UK...Read More
