Policy & Regulation — Page 11
EU Sanctions Russian Intelligence Officers Over Years-Long Cyber Spying and Sabotage Campaign
Brussels has placed travel bans and asset freezes on individuals tied to a Russian-linked network accused of spying on European governments and attacking critical infrastructure.
Nine in Ten Top Adult Sites Now Check Ages in Australia, But VPN Workarounds Are Next on the Regulator's List
Australia's online safety watchdog says most major adult platforms have put age gates in place since March. Now it wants to know whether a simple privacy tool is letting users walk straight around them.
Ofcom Wants Big Tech to Stop Scam Ads. Here's What That Means for You.
The UK's communications regulator has told the country's largest social platforms to clean up fraudulent advertising or face fines of up to 10% of their global revenue.
Bank of England Gets Power to Regulate Amazon, Google and Other Cloud Giants Serving UK Banks
New rules taking effect this week mean two regulators can now inspect and direct the tech companies that keep Britain's financial system running, a first for the UK.
A US Senator Wants Laws to Rein In AI Before the Damage Gets Worse
Senator Ed Markey has introduced a package of bills targeting AI's biggest real-world harms: water-hungry data centres, biased hiring algorithms, and workers being overruled by software they never saw.
The Security Researcher Who Took On the US Legal System and Won an MBE Doing It
Jen Ellis started out running PR for a cybersecurity firm. She ended up testifying before Congress, brokering a peace deal between hackers and the Justice Department, and picking up a royal honour along the way.
Bulgarian money launderer accused of siphoning $290,000 in seized crypto from behind bars
Rossen Iossifov, already serving ten years for laundering funds for a Romanian online auction fraud ring, allegedly moved government-seized cryptocurrency through mixers while in a US prison.
Banning Kids From Social Media Sounds Simple. Actually Doing It Is Not.
Countries across four continents are passing age limits for social media. The hard part, it turns out, is proving how old anyone actually is.
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.