Senior financial crime leaders warn that while threats are increasingly global and sophisticated, domestic regulatory frameworks and information-sharing mechanisms are failing to keep pace. Australian financial crime executives have expressed concerns that they are being left to fight a rising tide of sophisticated, offshore-originated financial crime with one hand tied behind their backs, citing slow...Read More
Seamus remembers when one of his kids came up to him to tell him about the “gross” YouTube ad they’d seen. “They told me that there are these really uncomfortable and awkward ads about games and their apps, and these ads were clearly designed to sit just on the right side of not being pornographic,”...Read More
Artificial intelligence-native security platform startup depthfirst Inc. announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding to train additional security models across new domains, expand its AI research team and scale up enterprise adoption. Founded in 2024, depthfirst is taking on the issue of a rapidly changing threat landscape where software is developed faster than...Read More
North Korean hackers have breached key back-end software, Axios, used in everyday online applications, in an attempt to steal sensitive login information, according to Google. This attack manipulated a recent Axios software update, integrating malicious code that potentially exposed login credentials, paving the way for further data theft and cyber operations. The breach, described...Read More
What You Should Know The Reversal: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is officially reversing a controversial 2024 reorganization that consolidated major enterprise technology roles under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). The Name Change: The 2024 initiative dually titled the ONC as the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office...Read More
27 March 2024 Copenhagen, Denmark WHO/Europe today released the second volume of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, which focuses on patterns of bullying and peer violence among adolescents across 44 countries and regions. While the overall trends in school bullying have remained stable since 2018, cyberbullying has increased, magnified by the increasing...Read More
A report on absenteeism in Rhode Island schools found 5% of students have missed school due to safety reasons. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing more than 10% of school days in a year for any given reason. It dramatically increased during the pandemic and remains concerningly high throughout the U.S., affecting nearly 25% of...Read More
Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada. Courtesy: Verkada Security technology startup Verkada has reached a $5.8 billion valuation after a new funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s venture capital arm, announced Wednesday. “I think Google saw the opportunity with us in the application of AI and everything we’re driving to apply AI to the physical security...Read More
Google Drive just picked up a serious security upgrade, and if you keep anything important in the cloud, this is one you’ll want to know about. According to a new post on the Google Workspace blog, Google confirms that its AI-powered ransomware detection and file restoration tools have officially graduated from beta and are now...Read More
The Brazilian Government has taken a new step to strengthen the protection of children and adolescents online. On Tuesday (March 17), decrees regulating the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents (Law No. 15,211/2025) entered into force, establishing rules for digital platforms, online services, and app developers operating in the country. The regulation introduces unprecedented protection...Read More
