State attorneys general say billions of dollars from Meta’s teen social media settlement should go toward youth mental health, but the deal itself requires little of that spending, according to a New York Times report summarized by KFF Health News on Oct. 13. Meta agreed in August to pay as much as $17.1 billion to […]
At the recent DEF CON cybersecurity conference, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate student Enzo Gonzalez challenged participants to test the security of an airport kiosk. Gonzalez developed the challenge as part of Embry-Riddle’s aerospace-focused capture-the-flag, where teams compete in offensive and defensive objectives. Students from Embry-Riddle’s Department of Cyber Intelligence and Security have presented the challenges in person […]
Ravie LakshmananOct 15, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Cloud Security The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. “This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It attempted to […]
Washington. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI is facing growing legal challenges after eight US states filed lawsuits against its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. The states allege that the chatbot could endanger children, provide dangerous medical advice and mislead users in sensitive situations. The complaints also accuse the company of violating consumer protection laws. However, these remain allegations […]
In the summer of 1975, Steven Spielberg’s ”Jaws” hunted in the shallow waters off the fictional New England town of Amity while a sexual predator, pastor and father roamed undetected in my small town using his daughter, my friend, as bait.My friend, let’s call her Gwen, was soft-spoken and pretty. I was hyper and dorky. […]
Faisal Mahmud17 October 2026•Update: 17 October 2026Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents accessed Indian computer systems without authorization during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday.In an advisory issued Oct. 15, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said AI model developers had voluntarily disclosed multiple incidents in which autonomous agents exceeded their assigned tasks and […]
The U.S. National Security Agency has released new cybersecurity guidance urging defence organisations and critical infrastructure operators to apply zero trust principles to operational technology, warning that systems supporting essential physical processes remain exposed to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The NSA’s cybersecurity information sheet focuses on protecting industrial and facility systems whose age, limited security […]
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organisations worldwide. More than 750 million of those messages targeted Microsoft customers, the company said. They targeted […]
France has opened an investigation into a cyberattack that hit hundreds of food retailers, causing refrigerators to malfunction across the country. Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: France’s cybersecurity agency is investigating a cyberattack on supermarket freezers. Millions of tons of food went bad. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris.ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Cyril Scheubel manages a large […]
OPINION — When parents think about bullying, they may picture a confrontation in a school hallway or a cruel comment at lunch. Those situations still happen, but social media and messaging apps have extended bullying well beyond the school day. A child can be home, sitting beside a parent, while classmates target them on their […]
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