Attorney General Phil Weiser announces over $17 billion settlement with Meta over child safety claims | #childsafety | #kids | #chldern | #parents | #schoolsafey

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 […]

Australia’s Social Media Ban for Teens Is Going, Uh, Pretty Badly | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey

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 […]

NSA Joins FBI in Issuing Warning about Chinese Hacking Group QTFY Cyber Activity | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

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, […]

Unexpected chat between OpenAI bots led to Hugging Face hack | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

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 […]

CISA identifies security hurdles that led to very different results in two red-team engagements | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

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 […]

‘AI introduces a new set of problems’ in cybersecurity: Securonix CEO Toby Weiss | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

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 […]

AG Griffin announces historic $17.1 billion child safety settlement with Meta | #childsafety | #kids | #chldern | #parents | #schoolsafey

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 […]

Q&A: Will Meta’s $17 billion settlement make social media safer for kids? | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey

On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay about $17 billion to settle claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and teens, misled the public about the platforms’ safety and improperly collected children’s data. The settlement requires Meta to adopt protections for young users, including a combined two-hour daily limit on Facebook […]

FBI Shuts Down China-Linked Hacking Platforms Used to Target NASA and U.S. Networks | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI have seized domains associated with two China-linked hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, allegedly used to target NASA, federal agencies, critical infrastructure, and sensitive U.S. networks. Court documents unsealed in the Southern District of California link the infrastructure to a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group tracked as QTFY. […]