Policy & Regulation — Page 10
EU Parliament Accidentally Extends Mass Message Scanning Until 2028
Too many MEPs skipped the vote. Now service providers on Discord, Gmail, Instagram and more can read your private messages without a warrant, until 2028.
Lumen Technologies Found It Had 1.1 Million Assets, Not 17,000
A new Axonius survey shows most companies still can't see what they own. Lumen's cleanup shows why that matters.
Storage Wars Star Darrell Sheets Died by Suicide After Leaving Note About Cyberbully, Police Report Says
A police incident report from Lake Havasu City names cyberbullying as a factor in the death of the reality TV star, raising questions about how online harassment translates into real-world harm.
npm 12 Turns Off Auto-Run Install Scripts to Blunt Supply Chain Attacks
GitHub's package manager for JavaScript now ships with a safer default, and it retires a token type that let developers skip two-factor login.
UK Government Unveils AI Security Plan and Calls on Industry to Commit
Two announcements on 7 July 2026 signal that Britain is treating artificial intelligence safety as a national priority, not an afterthought.
Microsoft to switch off Outlook Web Access Light next August
The stripped-down webmail client, aimed at old browsers and slow connections, will be removed from Exchange Server in an update expected around August 2026.
Interpol Sweep Nets 5,811 Fraud Arrests and $293 Million Across 97 Countries
Operation First Light 2026 identified more than 142,000 victims of romance, investment and business email scams between January and April.
European Workers Trust Their Collaboration Tools. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
A new survey finds that most IT leaders in the UK, France, and Germany feel confident about how securely their teams share information at work. But the same survey shows files staying open too long, consumer apps slipping in through the back door, and fewer than a third of organisations using a secure channel for outside partners.
Farage's £5m Crypto Gift Was Flagged to the UK's National Crime Agency Over Money-Laundering Fears
Bankers who processed the payment raised a formal suspicion report. Now the Reform UK leader faces scrutiny from two directions at once.
Seven Arrested Over Alleged Council Fraud in Shepparton as Police Probe Four-Year Scheme
Greater Shepparton City Council referred its own employees to police after internal checks flagged suspicious financial activity stretching back to 2022.
Mexico's World Cup Moment: A New Cyber Plan Meets Its First Big Test
The FIFA World Cup 2026 is stress-testing Mexico's seven-month-old National Cybersecurity Plan before the country even has a proper cybersecurity law.
DuckDuckGo browser starts blocking YouTube video ads by default
The privacy-focused browser now strips pre-roll and mid-roll ads on the world's biggest video site, joining Brave and Opera in offering built-in blocking.
Estonia Plans to Give AI Assistants Their Own Government ID Numbers
The Baltic nation wants AI agents to act inside government systems as semi-independent registered entities. Security experts say a registration number alone will not make that safe.
The 13 security certifications paying the biggest salary premiums right now
New data from Foote Partners ranks the credentials that translate most directly into a bigger pay cheque, from a $165 Microsoft exam to a portfolio qualification that can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
The Qantas Settlement Text That Looks Like a Scam But Isn't
More than one million Qantas customers are receiving texts and emails about a $105 million class-action settlement over COVID-19 flight credits. The messages are real, and ignoring them could mean missing a payment.