A New Reminder to Watch Which Apps You Download

As a general rule of thumb, it’s important to exercise caution when downloading apps onto your devices. Whether you’re using a PC for work, or a personal smartphone, malicious apps from your device’s marketplace can steal data and infect your system. This is great advice especially when looking at apps and software on various websites across the internet. These sites …

How Dark AI Can Jeopardize Your Business

The AI systems you hear about on a daily basis aren’t inherently dangerous. ChatGPT, for example, is built by a team of developers who want the program to help people, not hurt them. As such, there are safe guards in place and in development to ensure there are limits to what the chatbot can do, and that the actions it …

Look Out for This Subtle Scammer Trick

A scammer’s best friend is subtlety. Unfortunately for them, that’s hard to come by in the trade. Many of the telltale signs of spam and scam are well known and easy to spot, which is how so many messages end up in your spam folder rather than the top of your inbox. However, not all of the tricks scammers use …

Watch Out for Holiday Deal Scams

This time of year, there are holiday deals everywhere you look. Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the rush to get people to buy gifts before the end of the year, you’ll no doubt encounter many discounts on products across the web. Bad actors know this, too, and may try to use this knowledge to scam you. You don’t want …

Ransomware Attacks Are More Common Than We Think

Ransomware attacks aren’t just in the news. They happen all the time, perhaps more often than many assume. As reported by Cybersecurity Dive, roughly 9 in 10 CISOs reported at least one attack during this past year. Of course, many deal with more attacks than one: In the same survey of 350 security executives, almost half of responders reported multiple …

AI Bots Are Susceptible to “Prompt Injection”

AI is the “it” tech of 2023, dominating the conversation as well as people’s interests. However, as impressive as generative AI can be, it’s also not immune from cyberattacks. As such, AI can potentially pose a security risk to your business. One such vulnerability currently being investigated is known as “prompt injection.” How prompt injection works In a prompt injection …