AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Here’s what parents should check before handing one to a child. 10 Aug 2026 • , 6 min. read AI is disrupting sectors as diverse as healthcare… Read More "Are AI tutoring tools safe for your kids?"
Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tools
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to AI agents and chatbots to autonomously plan and carry out cyber-attacks, according to new analysis of hacker activity. Cybersecurity researchers at ESET examined 900,000 AI skills, small functional components used by AI agents, listed in… Read More "Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tools"
Biggest Data Breaches in Retail (Updated August 2026)
Retail is the most consistently targeted consumer-facing sector in the history of breach reporting, and the reason is structural. Retailers concentrate payment card data, run point-of-sale (POS) estates across thousands of stores, load high-traffic checkouts with third-party JavaScript, and depend… Read More "Biggest Data Breaches in Retail (Updated August 2026)"
Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure
Mozilla announced on Monday that it has issued a new GPG signing subkey used for some Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts after the previous key was accidentally exposed in a GitHub repository. In general, if a GPG private signing key used… Read More "Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure"
New AI Security Charter Backed by Over 70 Cyber Firms
Over 70 cybersecurity organizations have signed a new charter, vowing a responsible use of AI for cybersecurity purposes. The AI Charter, launched by cyber industry body CREST on July 9, is built around nine principles for AI-enabled cybersecurity activities that… Read More "New AI Security Charter Backed by Over 70 Cyber Firms"
GhostApproval Flaw Hits Six Major AI Coding Assistants
Six major AI coding assistants have been found to share a flaw that turns their approval prompts into a rubber stamp, letting a malicious repository write to sensitive files on a developer’s machine and, in the worst case, achieve remote… Read More "GhostApproval Flaw Hits Six Major AI Coding Assistants"
The future of AI security research isn’t autonomous, it’s human-amplified
Meet HTTP Terminator, a new AI system that has identified hundreds of websites vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, hacked them live at scale, and even identified a “genuinely new class” of vulnerability, dubbed “shared-parser confusion.” But it didn’t do it… Read More "The future of AI security research isn’t autonomous, it’s human-amplified"
Chinese-Funded Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Leads to 5,800 Arrests
A new global anti-fraud operation against cybercrime has led to the arrest of over 5800 people and the interception of almost $300m in illicit assets. The operational phase of the crackdown effort, dubbed Operation First Light 2026, ran from January… Read More "Chinese-Funded Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Leads to 5,800 Arrests"
75% CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks
Over three quarters of cybersecurity leaders believe that the board level decision makers above them do not understand the cybersecurity risks associated with how their employees act in the workplace. That is according to a report by MetaCompliance, published on… Read More "75% CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks"
Multistate Water System Attacks Widen, Iran Suspected
Cyberattacks against water and wastewater systems reportedly have reached at least a dozen states, with threat actors exploiting low-complexity attacks against industrial controllers. The intrusions, possibly linked to the Iranian government, prove the US’s water infrastructure remains dangerously exposed. In… Read More "Multistate Water System Attacks Widen, Iran Suspected"