BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 30. The Kurultai of Kazakhstan ratified the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime during a meeting, the Kurultai’s press service reported. “The document is aimed at countering crimes related to violations of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer systems, networks and data, as well as their unlawful use,” the press service said. The...Read More

In April, Nikesh Arora applied a simple but unsettling test to his $300 billion cybersecurity company, Palo Alto Networks: He turned loose on the company’s internal infrastructure an unreleased version of a terrifyingly powerful new AI model called Mythos, created by the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Arora’s team prompted it to find vulnerabilities in the...Read More

This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin America and the implications/risks for tech moderation. Since 2021, major platforms have informally treated Latin American cartels as equivalent to terrorist entities in their internal moderation hierarchies, including through shadow-banning — suppressing the visibility of content or search results without...Read More

Today, the European Commission has adopted the EU KIDS Act to enhance the online safety of children throughout the Union. The proposal prohibits social media platforms from accessing children under the age of 13 and sets an EU-wide minimum age for minors to open an account of their own at the age of 15, thereby...Read More

The cybercrime group that claims to have stolen a massive amount of personal data about what it describes as “all FBI employees and applicants” now says it has no plans to make the information public. ShinyHunters, which breached the agency and defaced its jobs website last week, told Straight Arrow on Monday that it “never...Read More

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Two men were indicted by a Lubbock grand jury on Tuesday in connection with a child predator sting operation earlier this year. Jose Arredondo indictment Jose Arredondo, 55(KCBD Graphic) Jose Arredondo, 55, is charged with online solicitation of a minor. He was one of five people arrested in March during “Operation...Read More

Under the MRM, the unit has disposed of 244 of the 255 matters received, recording a disposal rate of 95.6% Chandigarh: Chandigarh Police has ranked first in the Money Restoration Module (MRM) and fifth in the Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), following a sharp reduction in the pendency of...Read More

Hegseth says U.S. National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems in November That the nation’s security agencies will be on the lookout for bad actors attempting to subvert our 2026 midterm elections is not a new thing. They’ve done this for the past decade, ever since in 2017...Read More

TOPEKA, Kan. — The state of Kansas and the online gaming platform Roblox have reached a settlement over child safety concerns. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced Tuesday that the agreement secures more than $10 million in financial commitments and requires Roblox to implement stricter safeguards to protect children. Roblox describes itself as the “ultimate...Read More

2026 has become a turning point in how governments worldwide treat young people”s access to social media. Australia entered the year with its under-16 restrictions already in force—the world’s first nationwide ban of its kind. Indonesia followed with restrictions on under-16 access to so-called “high-risk” digital platforms, becoming the first Southeast Asian nation to do...Read More