Internet Security
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Holiday Shopping Scams: What to Watch as Black Friday & Cyber Monday Approach
Nov 11, 2025 | 6 MIN READ
The Stars Scammers Love Most: McAfee Reveals World’s Most Deepfaked Celebs
You’ve seen the videos: a too-perfect Taylor Swift promoting free cookware. A fake Tom Hanks offering dental...
Holiday Shopping Scams: What to Watch as Black Friday & Cyber Monday Approach
It’s an all-too-familiar trap. You’re scrolling TikTok when an ad for your favorite shoe brand pops up....
This Week in Scams: Fake Steaks and Debit Card Porch Pirates
We’re back with a new edition of “This Week in Scams,” a roundup of what’s current and...
The Louvre Used Its Own Name as a Password. Here’s What to Learn From It
If you’ve been watching the news, you’ve probably seen the headlines out of Paris: one of the...
Kickoffs and Rip-offs—Watch Out for Online Betting Scams This Football Season
Football season is in full swing — tailgates, rivalries, fantasy leagues, and Sunday afternoons glued to the...
Frankenstein Data: How Data Brokers Stitch Together—and Sell—Your Digital Self
Your digital life is being stitched together—one purchase, one search, one swipe at a time. Data brokers...
Vampire Wifi: How Public Wi-Fi Traps Travelers in Cyber Attacks
They’re not hiding in dark alleys—they’re hiding in plain sight. Airports, cafés, hotels, even libraries can harbor...
Ghost Accounts: How Old, Forgotten Logins Put You at Risk for Identity Theft
Remember that website where you bought a T-shirt in 2013? No? Hackers do. And it’s one way...
This New “Verification” Trick Fools You Into Installing Malware
Cybercriminals are turning to TikTok to spread new scams that promise “free upgrades” or access to premium...
AWS Outage Disrupts Major Apps Like Reddit and Snapchat—What Happened and How to Stay Safe
Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud providers, recently experienced a major outage that...
Hackers Trick Staff Into Exposing Major Companies’ Salesforce Data–Find Out if You’re Safe
Cybercriminals tricked employees at major global companies into handing over Salesforce access and used that access to...
Astaroth: Banking Trojan Abusing GitHub for Resilience
by Harshil Patel and Prabudh Chakravorty *EDITOR’S NOTE: Special thank you to the GitHub team for working...
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