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The Scam Strikes Back: Exploiting the CrowdStrike Outage
Authored by Lakshya Mathur, Vallabh Chole & Abhishek Karnik Recently we witnessed one of the most significant IT disruptions in...
Are Mobile Devices Less Secure than PCs?
Are smartphones less secure than PCs? The answer to that is, they’re different. They face different security threats. Yet they...
Olympics Has Fallen – A Misinformation Campaign Featuring a Voice Cloned Elon Musk
Authored by Lakshya Mathur and Abhishek Karnik As the world gears up for the 2024 Paris Olympics, excitement is building,...
What Does “Connection is Not Private” Mean?
Have you ever visited a site that triggers a “your connection is not private” or “your connection is not secure”...
Does PC Cleaning Improve Performance?
Cleaning up your PC has several advantages, including the speeding up of your system and safeguarding your personal information from potential threats. Besides, the process frees up storage space.
CrowdStrike Outage Provides Opportunities for Scammers
Recently, a significant global outage resulted in thousands of Windows computers being brought offline. The source of the outage was...
How to Identify the Different Forms of Identity Theft
Identity theft is a pervasive threat in today’s digital age, with various forms that can wreak havoc on individuals’ lives....
10 Artificial Intelligence Buzzwords You Should Know
Artificial intelligence used to be reserved for the population’s most brilliant scientists and isolated in the world’s top laboratories. Now,...
How to Tell Whether a Website Is Safe or Unsafe
Something looks a little…sketchy. Is that website safe or unsafe? Nowadays, it can take a bit of work to...
How to Help Protect Your Online Privacy
When it comes to protecting your privacy, take a close look at your social media use—because sharing can quickly turn...
ClickFix Deception: A Social Engineering Tactic to Deploy Malware
Authored by Yashvi Shah and Vignesh Dhatchanamoorthy McAfee Labs has discovered a highly unusual method of malware delivery, referred to...
How Does Jailbreaking Or Rooting Affect My Mobile Device Security?
In today’s interconnected world, our mobile devices serve as essential tools for communication, productivity, and entertainment. However, for some tech-savvy...
What Is Generative AI and How Does It Work?
It’s all anyone can talk about. In classrooms, boardrooms, on the nightly news, and around the dinner table, artificial intelligence...
Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Passwords Secure
How do you manage all those user names and passwords without having a cheat sheet in a file on your computer or stuck on post-it notes next to your computer? Neither option provides the security you should reserve for passwords.
RockYou2024: Unpacking the Largest Password Leak in History
This Fourth of July brought fireworks in the form of a digital security breach, one that has been recorded as...
How to Safeguard Your Digital Assets While Backpacking on a Budget
Traveling on a budget while backpacking allows individuals to immerse themselves fully in local cultures, explore off-the-beaten-path destinations, and forge...
What is Doxing?
Imagine someone putting your personal information out online for thousands of strangers to see—your home address, phone number, even details...
How to Protect Yourself on Social Networks
There are now over 5 billion active social media users worldwide, representing 62.3% of the global population. While social networks...
Get Yourself AI-powered Scam Text Protection That Spots and Block Scams in Real Time
The tables have turned. Now you can use AI to spot and block scam texts before they do you harm. ...
The Top 10 Online Booking Scam Hotspots in the U.S. Revealed
With a record-breaking number of Americans set to travel over the July 4th holiday, most of them by car, scammers...
Quality Over Quantity: the Counter-Intuitive GenAI Key
It’s been almost two years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, driving increased mainstream awareness of and access to Generative AI tools....
What Security Means to Families
What is our real job as parents? Is it to ensure our kids get good grades? – Maybe. Or is...
How to Protect Yourself from Vishing
“Vishing” occurs when criminals cold-call victims and attempt to persuade them to divulge personal information over the phone. These scammers...
How to Safely Connect to Public Wi-Fi While Traveling
As the summer sun beckons us to explore new destinations, many of us rely on public Wi-Fi to stay connected...
Thelma – The Real-Life Voice Scam That Made It into the Movies
This has to be a first. Something from our blogs got made into a movie. We’re talking about voice scams,...
How Online Dating Scams work and How to Spot Them
Sarah didn’t see it coming. A single mom in her late 40s, “Sarah” was especially lonely after her divorce (name...
How Teens Date in the Digital Age
Falling in love in the internet age is a whole different ball game to the social-media-free ’70s, ’80s and ’90s....
