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Children are no longer just being told about the risks they face online. They are being placed inside them. A new Virtual Reality game developed by CYENS for the Digital Security Authority (DSA) asks schoolchildren to make their own decisions when confronted with online strangers, misinformation and threats to their personal data.

A 28-year-old Waipahu man was sentenced to 264 months in federal prison Thursday for using online gaming and messaging apps to groom and sexually exploit more than ten children, some as young as 10 years old, over a two-year span. After U.S. District Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park handed down the sentence, Yamamoto was remanded into…