Category: Cybersecurity

[ad_1] Getty Images A major international study suggests there has been a sharp rise in what it calls “problematic” social media use among young people since the pandemic. Researchers came to the conclusion after surveying almost 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15 across 44 countries. The Health Behaviour In School-aged Children (HBSC) study found,…

[ad_1] The water treatment facility for a small city in Kansas experienced a “cybersecurity incident” on the morning of Sept. 22. Arkansas City — population 12,000, a two-hour drive north of Oklahoma City — sits at the junction of the Walnut and Arkansas Rivers, the latter of which supplies the town’s drinking water. A notice…

[ad_1] Oleksandr Hruts/Getty Images The time has come: Artificial intelligence (AI) can now solve reCAPTCHAv2 tests — those image identification quizzes that pop up as checkpoints during your browsing journey to verify you’re not a bot — and it can solve them as accurately as you can.  Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have trained an…

[ad_1] The ban specifically aims to prohibit imported automobiles with vehicle connectivity systems (VCS) and automated driving systems (ADS) from these countries. Why ban connected vehicles? Connected vehicle technologies, which rely on internet connectivity, sensors, and data exchange for enhanced features such as autonomous driving, navigation, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, pose several security concerns for importing…

[ad_1] Now that the iPhone 16 has arrived with new colors, AI features, and camera controls — and with it, iOS 18 — you may also be on the lookout for a new way to improve your online privacy. While Apple’s iPhones of all models and generations tend to have excellent connectivity, we always recommend using a virtual private…

[ad_1] A China-linked cyber-espionage group has attacked Taiwanese government agencies, the Philippine and Japanese military, and energy companies in Vietnam, installing either the Cobalt Strike client or a custom backdoor known as EagleDoor on compromised machines. Dubbed Earth Baxia by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, the group primarily uses spear-phishing to compromise victims, but it has…

[ad_1] Steven Kahn Half a billion fans, a multi-million dollar personal fortune and a global business empire. It would take a lot to dethrone YouTube’s biggest influencer Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast. But a 54-page court document could be his toughest test yet. Five female contestants on upcoming Prime Video show Beast Games are launching legal…

[ad_1] themotioncloud/Getty Images The rise of AI-generated content has brought both innovation and concern to the forefront of the digital media landscape. Hyper-realistic images, videos, and voice recordings — once the work of expert designers and engineers — can now be created by anyone with access to tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Sora. These technologies…

[ad_1] The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a plan to align the “collective operational defense capabilities” of federal agencies to reduce their cyber-risk. The plan’s focus is to have more synchronized and robust cyber defenses, improved communications, and better agility and resilience in the federal government. For the most part, federal agencies built…

[ad_1] The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), in cooperation with the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), has dealt a severe blow to the “infrastructure of digital money launderers in the underground economy,” it said Friday. As part of the “Final Exchange” campaign, a total of 47 so-called Exchange Services hosted in Germany…