Category: Security Software and Services

The threat from AI-powered online scams is on the rise. You can be fooled by realistic-looking fake emails and messages pretending to be from your bank or other companies, that convince you…

With the constantly evolving security threat landscape introducing new and ingenious methods for hackers and organisations alike to track our movements on the web, our online privacy is increasingly difficult to protect….

If you’ve received emails that appear to come from Mozilla, you should avoid clicking on any links within those emails. According to a Mozilla blog post, there’s an extensive phishing campaign going…

Swiss technology company Proton—known for its privacy-centered software solutions and services—just launched Proton Authenticator, a new open-source two-factor authentication (2FA) app. Proton Authenticator is very much like the other 2FA apps you’ve…

One of the phenomena triggered by the AI boom in recent years is deepfakes. The term is made up of the words deep learning and fake. Deep learning refers to machine learning…

When you imagine personal data stolen on the internet, like your address, phone number, internet history, or even passwords, you probably think of hackers passing it to identity thieves. Maybe you think…

Google is trying to shove its “AI” into all of its products at once. You can’t use Search, Android, or Chrome without being prompted to try out some flavor of Gemini. But…

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of more…

Between email, calls, texts, and now an unending torrent of AI slop, I feel like I’ve been fighting off scammers every single day for basically my entire adult life. And now that…