Google ads can be a mild annoyance, or useful, if relevant to your search or general interests. However, occasionally, they can be malicious and dangerous, so you need to be on the lookout at all times.  As reported by The Hacker News, there’s a new “malvertising” campaign, which tricks users looking for popular software into installing malware instead.  In particular, …

There are plenty of “rules” for keeping your various accounts safe: Use a strong password for each of your accounts; don’t reuse passwords; set up multi-factor authentication whenever possible. But as important as making your passwords is, it’s just as important to focus on where you keep those passwords. Storing passwords, especially those connected to a network like your company, …

We all need to be on the lookout for hacking, but some of us need to be more careful than others. The higher profile you are, the more likely you are to be targeted in one of these attacks. That’s what seems to have happen with members of Congress, American policy experts and U.S. journalists, according to The Washington Post. …

As AI—specifically generative AI—continues to capture the attention and imagination of us all, it becomes more evident than ever that we need to be prepared to live in an AI-influence world. Governments, as it seems, are well aware of this fact. This week, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) announced it would be creating an artificial intelligence security center …

One of the biggest stories in cybersecurity over the last decade or so has been election interference. The internet empowers hackers in different countries to meddle in other nations’ election processes. But there’s a new factor we haven’t seen in action before: AI. AI as we know it is in its infancy. ChatGPT, the generative AI program that kicked off …