The dome of the US Capitol building. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press On Thursday, June 4, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection hosted a hearing titled, “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience.” Witnesses included: Sandra Joyce, Vice President,...Read More

Cybercriminals are not waiting for kick-off. FortiGuard Labs has exposed a highly co-ordinated cybercrime ecosystem leveraging lookalike domains, malicious Android app downloads from unofficial sources (third party APK downloads) and fake social media channels across Facebook and Instagram to target unsuspecting fans and organisations. More than 13 000 new Fifa World Cup-themed domains were registered...Read More

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story of the year. Yes, wars are still raging, the climate keeps worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But running beneath all of it...Read More

A newly released 2026 Digital Risk Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, produced with support from Outtake, finds that organizations are struggling to keep pace with a rapidly evolving digital threat landscape where attackers increasingly target trust, identity, and online reputation rather than traditional infrastructure alone. The research, based on responses from more than 1,100 cybersecurity, fraud,...Read More

Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead they say they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks, an industry that has swindled billions of dollars from Americans and turned Southeast Asia into the online scam capital of the world. Subscribe to read this...Read More

Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform GitHub on Wednesday morning confirmed that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were impacted in a supply chain attack. On Tuesday, the infamous hacking group TeamPCP, known for a series of recent supply chain attacks targeting the open source software community, claimed the hack of 4,000 GitHub internal repositories. Boasting about the incident on...Read More

I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password, and two factor authentication. I get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company’s server is unphishable, and less...Read More

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia will require facial-recognition-based biometric registration for all new mobile phone numbers starting July 1, 2026, as the government seeks to combat digital fraud and the use of SIM cards registered under false identities. But will the new system be enough to stop cybercrime? Cybersecurity experts say biometric registration could significantly strengthen identity...Read More

In the past I have had archaic rules about what games I keep on my phone. I used to get sucked into anything I had installed, and at one point I’d spent so much time playing the mobile versions of Settlers and Ticket to Ride that I  became miserable and ruthless to play the games...Read More

Executive Summary In May 2026, DentaQuest, a leading dental and vision benefits administrator serving Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, employers, health plans, and individual customers across all 50 states, experienced a significant data breach. The cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack, which resulted in the exfiltration and subsequent public leak of over 234 gigabytes of sensitive...Read More