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How to crack your forgotten passwords
Passwords must be complex and as long as possible so that hackers have no chance of cracking them in a short span of time. However, complicated passwords are easy to forget. Anyone…
A new ‘super-realistic’ AI scam could get your Gmail account hacked
The advent of generative AI has opened up all kinds of opportunities, but it has also ramped up various risks and dangers. We’ve previously seen hackers who can use AI-generated codes, phishing…
Watch out for fake Disney+ scam sites in Google’s search results
If you’re trying to scam someone, you want to reach as many people as you can — that’s why you’ve almost certainly received one of the literally billions of scam phone calls…
Hackers are stealing more info than ever. These 4 actions protect you
Massive data leaks and breaches are continually piling faster upon each other—just in the last month, we learned about a few billion records lost through National Public Data, another few million through…
Hackers know your social security number. Here’s how to stay safe
For anyone trying to keep their personal information secure, recent headlines have been a grim kick in the pants. The harshest came last month when the National Public Data breach was disclosed—the…
You can now save passkeys to Google Password Manager on desktops
Yesterday, Google announced that we’re now one step closer to a future without passwords: you can now use Google Password Manager on both Android and desktop devices to save passkeys, not just…
Hardening Windows: How to protect your computer against attacks
Microsoft has invested heavily in increasing the security of Windows. The firewall, the automatically activated antivirus program, various security functions for protection against boot viruses and much more help to ensure that…
6 ways hackers sidestep your two-factor authentication
Protecting an account with just a username and password is not very smart. Both can be stolen, guessed, or cracked too easily. This is why two-factor authentication (2FA) is recommended for all…
YouTube vows to protect creators from AI fakes
If you watch as much YouTube as I do, you’ve no doubt been inundated with AI in the last year or so. AI-generated thumbnails, AI-generated voiceovers, even full-on AI-generated video is now…