Category Archives: Privacy and Security

You won’t get a job – but you might get a virus If you’re hiring, or looking to get hired for a new job – be very careful who you talk to. Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto’s Unit 42 have

Options have existed to hide certain photos and apps for years, but Google is working on an all-in-one solution that’s more secure than ever. While wanting to keep certain apps, data, and photos on our phones private is nothing new,

PSA: If your WinRAR installation is older than version 6.23, released in August, you should update the software as soon as possible. The latest version patches a vulnerability that has been known for months. Recent reports indicate that state-backed hackers are actively exploiting

Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated. GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against

Microsoft says an initial access broker known for working with ransomware groups has recently switched to Microsoft Teams phishing attacks to breach corporate networks. The financially motivated threat group behind this campaign is tracked as Storm-0324, a malicious actor known

A significant portion of social engineering attacks, such as phishing, involve cloaking a metaphorical wolf in sheep’s clothing. According to a new study by Abnormal Security, which looked at brand impersonation and credential phishing trends in the first half of 2023,

To no one’s surprise, criminals are tapping open-source generative AI programs for all kinds of heinous acts, including developing malware and phishing attacks, according to the FBI. The agency on Friday held a call with journalists to discuss how generative AI programs—which are all the

Embarrassing old posts, data brokers selling your information, a desire for more privacy; there are any number of reasons for wanting to erase yourself from the internet. But is it actually possible to delete yourself entirely? The short answer is

Why it matters: Hackers have been exploiting vulnerable drivers for years, and Microsoft can’t easily fix the underlying issue without angering some of its paying customers who are using older software. Over the past few years, a Windows policy loophole allowed

Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare. Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order