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EU přitvrzuje ochranu dětí v online prostoru • Děti do 13 let nebudou mít přístup na sociální sítě, další dva roky pouze pod dohledem rodičů • Omezení se týkají i návykových obsahů služeb a aplikací

Ofcom chiefs have acknowledged that most fines issued under the Online Safety Act (OSA) remain unpaid, highlighting limitations in the comms regulator's enforcement powers. The regulator's director of enforcement, Suzanne Cater, told the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee that although another payment arrived this week, "realistically the majority have not been paid." Ofcom has imposed fines totaling more than £7 million ($9.4 million) on 11 service providers under its OSA powers so far, but when asked, it refused to specify exactly how many have not paid, nor detail the payment that came in this week. Oliver Griffiths, group director at Ofcom, said the regulator's enforcement action had primarily focused on smaller companies in the pornography industry. Its largest fine under the OSA, for example, was the £1.4 million ($1.88 million) penalty imposed on 8579 LLC in February. However, Ofcom plans to pursue larger companies, which Griffiths said should make difficulties collecting fines less pronounced. "I think it looks acute at the moment," he told peers on Tuesday. "I think over time, as we are fining the bigger companies, if they're in breach of the act, this will be less of an issue." Asked why it had not collected more of the fines, Ofcom officials pointed to the limits of its powers and the ways online platforms structure their businesses to evade enforcement. Cater said the regulator was beginning to exercise its powers to hold senior managers personally liable in certain circumstances. She acknowledged, however, that its business disruption powers have limits. Ofcom cannot shut down a website globally, but it can ask a court to restrict access to one in the UK. It first invoked that power in May, applying for an order against an unnamed suicide forum whose operator it had already fined £950,000 ($1.2 million). Services do not escape the OSA merely by moving their operations and infrastructure overseas, as courts can order third parties such as ISPs to restrict UK access. However, business disruption measures require continuing noncompliance with the OSA and cannot be used solely to recover an unpaid fine. Griffiths said some services had complied after being fined but failed to pay the penalty, leaving Ofcom to pursue the debt separately – a potentially difficult process when a company has no UK assets. Ofcom regards disruption measures as a last resort. It would prefer to secure compliance before opening an investigation or, when collecting an unpaid penalty, register the fine as a judgment debt. The regulator told The Register that it was working with the UK government to consider strengthening these powers while preserving safeguards for fundamental rights such as freedom of expression. Cater insisted that Ofcom was showing its teeth despite criticism that the regulator had been too timid. "I think we are very active in using our enforcement powers," she told peers, pointing to the six active enforcement programs and 40 formal investigations covering more than 100 different services, including Telegram, TikTok, and X. An Ofcom spokesperson repeated Cater's figures, telling us: "We've been more active than any other regulator in the world when it comes to enforcing online safety laws." They added: "Some of the fines we've issued have been paid and some have not yet passed their deadlines to pay. Where deadlines have passed and we have yet to receive payment, we have initiated work regarding the pursuit of that debt. "If a company has assets in the UK, the process is relatively straightforward. If a company does not have assets in the UK, the process is more complex. Given this is an ongoing operational matter, we can't provide further details about specific companies." Plenty of enforcement, not enough impact Despite Ofcom's defense of its enforcement record, Griffiths said its own tracking metrics left him "underwhelmed" by the OSA's effect on online safety so far. He cited commitments from X to remove hateful and terrorist content more quickly, and from Meta and Snap to tackle grooming, as encouraging signs. "But I think [this is] a one-way ratchet that is going to be building up over time, and we're confident that the commitments that we've seen from some of the big services and the continuing momentum that we have is going to make a significant change over time," Griffiths said. The comments came a week after Children's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza told peers that children believed the OSA "has made absolutely no difference." Young people have little understanding of the legislation or how it aimed to change their online experience, de Souza said. She was especially critical of the legislation's focus on moderating content instead of looking to change online platforms' harmful and addictive designs. The hearing also turned to Meta's recent settlement of US claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children. Lord James Knight asked whether the "eye-catching" agreement, worth up to $18 billion, would influence Ofcom's enforcement strategy. Griffiths said the case demonstrated both how much platforms might pay to settle online safety litigation and how effective enforcement could bring about changes to their services. ®

The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025. "SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor," ESET security researchers Alexandre Côté Cyr and Romain Dumont said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning model behavior" that took place over the past six months, while sharing a new framework for reporting, tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment in a bid to improve transparency. "As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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The China-linked espionage group FamousSparrow has been using a new backdoor named SparroWocky in attacks on government organizations in Latin America. [...]

Sony uvádí nové herní headsety Pulse a Pulse Edge. Oba lákají na planární měniče s čistým a bohatým zvukem, Edge má navíc ANC, lepší mikrofon a pouzdro.

Microsoft shared a temporary fix on Wednesday for a known issue that prevents Windows 11 users from logging in with valid domain credentials after installing the September 2026 security updates. [...]

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released BIND 9.20.29 and 9.21.26 to fix fourteen security flaws it disclosed on 16 September in BIND 9, its open-source DNS server software. One of them affects any BIND server that answers DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). A sender with no credentials can crash the server process, named, with a single request that carries an invalid SIGSwati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Přestože byl letošní rok z hlediska hráčů produktově chudý, příští rok to příliš nevynahradí. Nejspíš sice dorazí očekávané GPU AT2, náhrada Radeonů RX 9070 (XT)…

A Linux path can be valid when a program checks it and point somewhere else when the program uses it. That gap creates a time-of-check to time-of-use, or TOCTOU race condition, whenever an untrusted process can change part of the directory tree between two separate lookups.

Novinář Brian Krebs našel v databází svůj řidičák s časovým razítkem z června 2025, kdy v půjčovně Hertz podal přes pult řidičský průkaz. Hned o pár sekund vedle byl záznam jeho matky, která byla v půjčovně s ním. Služba se jmenovala Nexus a inzerát na ruskojazyčném fóru Exploit se objevil 31. ...

Novinář Brian Krebs našel v databází svůj řidičák s časovým razítkem z června 2025, kdy v půjčovně Hertz podal přes pult řidičský průkaz. Hned o pár sekund vedle byl záznam jeho matky, která byla v půjčovně s ním. Služba se jmenovala Nexus a inzerát na ruskojazyčném fóru Exploit se objevil 31. ...

A security breach at Gyazo, Helpfeel's image-sharing service, exposed about 23.62 million user records, including email addresses and password hashes, the Kyoto-based company said in a notice published Wednesday. It also exposed about 490 million image metadata records, mostly for images from January 2019 or earlier, including the IDs that make up Gyazo image links. Helpfeel said Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity Identity Services Engine vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild. [...]

Britská armáda tajně utratila miliony dolarů za vojenský systém Starshield • SpaceX totiž zakázala používat běžný civilní Starlink pro přímé bojové operace • Spojené království tímto krokem získalo rychlé spojení i bezpečnostní rizika

Cisco has warned of a fresh maximum-severity security flaw impacting Identity Services Engine (ISE) that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76460 (CVSS score: 10.0), could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication. "This vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication control on an API endpoint," Cisco said. "An attacker Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Nintendo Switch 2 nedávno zdražil na třináct tisíc. • Mall teď ale nabízí tuto konzoli jen za 10 385 Kč. • Oproti předchůdci má lepší displej i Joy-Cony a vyšší výkon.

Generace Radeonů RX 9000 s architekturou RDNA 4 původně měla sestávat ze tří GPU, ne jen ze dvou. Možná si na to ještě pamatujete. Je paradoxní, stávajícímu trhu by lépe vyhovovalo původní portfolio…