The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens

Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers and anyone else who wants to button up their digital lives...

The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

A cyberattack that shut down two of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023. It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that...

Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram

Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known as Yahoo Boys, a loosely organized set of cybercriminals that largely operate out of Nigeria and specialize in different types of scams. Meta took down a ho...

Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued

In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off...

Only half of teens agree they "feel supported online" by parents

Not enough children and teenagers trust their parents to support them online, and not enough parents know exactly how to give the support their children need. Those are some of the latest findings from joint research conducted this summer by Malwarebytes and 1Password, which we have published tod...

New tool lets teens report, remove their nude photos online

By Deeba Ahmed Teens can now report their explicit content through a tool that can be termed as a positive initiative against revenge and child abuse content. An online tool has been developed to help those young people who want to remove their nude images, whether or not they have been...

IRS Releases Recommendations to Keep Children and Teens Safe Online

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a news release urging parents and families to be wary of the risks posed when sharing home devices, shopping online, and using social media. As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CI...

On TikTok, Teens Meme Life360, the Safety App Ruining Their Summer

Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance...

Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps

Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies...

Rewards Points Targeted by Teens in Hack of 500K Accounts

A pair of Russian teens have been arrested for infiltrating more than a half-million online accounts, in particular targeting services that offer rewards points. Russian authorities at the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in an announcement Wednesday that the duo came to their attention in late...

pleasuregirl.net XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.pleasuregirl.net/category/teens/?category=%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=alert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27%3E// Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 32722 VIP...

UK Teens Arrested For Malware Crime Forum

Two teenagers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the world’s largest English-language cybercrime forum. Read the full article. The Register...