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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • November 06, 2026

    Pornhub Gets Initial Nod For $120M Child Content Class Deal

    A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Friday to a $120 million settlement reached by the companies behind Pornhub to end certified class claims in California and Alabama by child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the video-sharing website profited from crimes committed against them.

  • November 06, 2026

    Fla. Judge Rejects Guilty Plea Over TikTok Threats To Trump

    A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended that the court reject a woman's guilty plea for allegedly threatening President Trump in a profanity-laced TikTok livestream, saying the facts in the case don't show that the video contained a true threat of violence. 

  • November 06, 2026

    PHP Flaw Shows How AI 'Changing The Game' In Cyber Realm

    Artificial intelligence's role in uncovering a critical flaw in the PHP programming language that underpins a majority of the world's websites underscores its growing power to identify and help address cybersecurity vulnerabilities — and signals that such AI-driven discoveries may only just be beginning.

  • November 06, 2026

    OKCoin Beats $2M Hacker Crypto Theft Suit

    A California federal judge has permanently tossed a proposed class action accusing digital asset exchange OKCoin and its affiliates of enabling cryptocurrency thieves, ruling the plaintiffs' allegations that the company lacked certain safeguards do not show it is liable for the losses.

  • November 06, 2026

    FinCEN Scraps Unpopular Cross-Border Recordkeeping Plan

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said Friday it has withdrawn a controversial six-year-old proposal that planned to significantly lower the threshold for collecting and transmitting identifying information for financial transactions across U.S. borders and apply the requirements to cryptocurrency.

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