L-R — Abideen Olasupo, Founder of FactCheck Africa; John Best UCHE, Development Communicator; & Maria Alvaro Sanchez, Project Coordinator, FIAP/EPSG …As John Best Uche, others take advocacy to EU diplomatic levels As Nigeria and many other countries create draconian laws ostensibly to check cyberbullying, a group has joined efforts to teach the GenZ segment how […]
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Justice, NASA and other federal agencies were victims of computer intrusions by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, the DOJ said Wednesday morning as it announced the court-ordered seizure of internet domains used for hacking platforms. The hacking platforms, known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” were “used to […]
A public exploit called ShieldBreak defeats Microsoft’s July fix by turning Windows Defender into the escalation path. There is still no patch. That should change how security teams hear the phrase “fully patched.” ShieldBreak went public in mid-August, and it earns the attention it’s getting for a reason most privilege escalation stories don’t. It hits […]
DENVER (KKTV) – Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Wednesday that Meta Inc. will pay over $17 billion and implement child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook under a nationwide settlement. Attorney General’s office officials said the agreement, which is subject to court approval, resolves claims that Meta designed Instagram with “addictive features,” knowingly exposed young users […]
Imagine for a moment that you’re an Australian 14-year-old (if you are an Australian 14-year-old, well, thank you for reading Business Insider, first of all. You can skip ahead). Life is already hard enough — your toilets flush the other way, and there’s that whole cane toad problem. But worst of all, as of December 2025, your […]
FORT MEADE, Md. — Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory titled, “China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems.” This guidance alerts organizations about China-linked cyber threat actors using the acronyms QTFY, […]
When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI started unexpectedly communicating, it led to a large group banding together in order to hack into Hugging Face. “We consider this incident a ‘warning shot’ for us and for the world”, OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, wrote in its report. In July, OpenAI’s models went rogue […]
Operational silos, technological sprawl and cloud-platform blind spots are serious issues preventing organizations from spotting and repelling cyberattacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned in a new report. Those were three of the main factors that allowed CISA’s red team to break into the networks of two unnamed partner organizations — one a […]
It has been just a couple of months since Toby Weiss took over as the CEO of enterprise cybersecurity software company Securonix, headquartered in Texas. He has assumed the role at a time when AI is transforming the threat landscape, with autonomous agents escaping a sandbox during an OpenAI safety evaluation and compromising parts of […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that he, along with 50 other attorneys general, has reached a $17 billion settlement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit accused Meta of violating the law by designing addictive features targeted at children and misleading the public about platform […]
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