Guarding your family against the latest online threats
Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts.…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI.…
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was…
Banning VPNs
This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs, because…think of the children! As of this writing,…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Neon Squid Found on Israeli Beach
A meter-long flying neon squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the…
Prompt Injection Through Poetry
In a new paper, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” researchers found that turning…
Top Security Mistakes Developers Make with Code Signing Certificates
Software supply chain attacks keep climbing and attackers are getting better at slipping malicious code into trusted software. Code signing…
Story of Cyberattack: Salesforce Supply Chain Breach
The Salesforce ecosystem just got a harsh reminder that the weakest link rarely lives inside the core platform. It often…
ShadowPad’s Silent Invasion: Crafting Persistence Through WSUS Exploitation
The ShadowPad malware campaign represents an urgent and advanced cybersecurity threat, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s WSUS service to…