Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that the government will toughen enforcement of the country’s pioneering social media ban for children, after a study claimed that the six-month-old law has had almost no impact on actual teenage internet use. Citing the report, news agency Reuters said that early data indicates that tech platforms are...Read More

Microsoft says it is adopting a new strategy against cybercrime by focusing on the broader attack supply chain rather than individual services, and has targeted two widely used cybercrime tools, Amadey and StealC, after AI-assisted analysis showed they depend on shared infrastructure. This action goes after the cybercrime “assembly line,” where coordinated tools drive ransomware,...Read More

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has claimed that the identity of the presumably white hat hacker who took $18.5 million worth of ADA from exposed Cardano wallet users is unknown. In an X talk yesterday called The Bingo Hall, Hoskinson claimed that he was informed by “Jer” of what went down in a meeting between the...Read More

A coalition of technology companies, including Anthropic, AWS, IBM and Microsoft, announced a joint effort to find, disclose and remediate security flaws in open-source software.  The group, called Akrites, will establish a shared security incident response team as well as a coordinated vulnerability disclosure process.  The founding members, led by the Linux Foundation, will commit...Read More

To stream KENS 5 on your phone, you need the KENS 5 app. Download the KENS 5 app Cybersecurity experts are urging people affected by the Alamo Heights ISD data breach to change passwords, freeze credit and enable multi-factor authentication. Author: kens5.com ...Read More

Accused child predator arrested Published 9:52 am Monday, June 22, 2026 BOWLING GREEN – A Canadian national has been arrested and charged by complaint, following an Investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with distribution of child pornography and attempted online enticement of a minor. The complaint alleges that between May 6 and June 15,...Read More

In this case, the hackers had gained access to login details and passwords for active users of the networks, including the IT professionals guarding it. ASIO had set up a specific team to deal with the issue of cyber sabotage. Australia isn’t alone in facing threats from the same state actors, Burgess said. “We struggle...Read More

Prior to taking up the role of senior vice-president of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Centre, Cynthia Kaiser worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for 20 years, becoming the deputy assistant director of cyber division for the agency. At this year’s Infosecurity Europe at the Excel London, Kaiser gave a keynote speech about the...Read More

A new investigation has revealed that a group of Russian hackers was responsible for a significant cyberattack on British automaker Jaguar Land Rover last year, The New York Times (NYT) reported on June 26. The attack, which occurred in late August 2025, forced the leading British automaker to lock down its computer networks and completely stop production for five weeks. The shutdown delivered a massive...Read More

The Federal Communications Commission approved new rules Thursday that boost cybersecurity regulations for the nation’s emergency alert systems and update security rules for the nation’s undersea cables, as reported by CyberScoop.The new regulations aim to protect the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) from hijacking attacks. These systems, used for disseminating critical...Read More