In December, password manager LastPass issued a report detailing a massive data breach. The breach saw customer data leaked, including company names, user names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses. Most concerningly, though, hackers were able to obtain copies of all customers’ encrypted password lists, which means, these bad actors have access to your entire vault of passwords. …

While the majority of PC users are running Windows 10 and Windows 11, millions of people around the world still run Windows 7. In fact, according to Statcounter GlobalStats, 11% of the world’s Windows systems are running version 7. That’s bad news for a multitude of reasons, not least of which being Microsoft’s decision to finally end support for Windows …

You might have noticed recently an interesting trend on social media: More and more people are sharing portraits of themselves “painted” by AI. This AI art is generated by software to make fantastical portraits in seconds. But while the technology and its results are cool, there are concerns over it privacy and security implications. The most popular app for AI …

In software, security vulnerabilities are inevitable. It isn’t about preventing them outright with perfect code. Rather, the challenge is discovering vulnerabilities and patching them before bad actors take advantage of them. Google has been working overtime to fight against security vulnerabilities with Chrome this year, as the company just issued a patch for the browser’s ninth zero-day. The patch comes …

TikTok is no stranger to controversy, particularly from a cybersecurity perspective. The app has come under fire many times in the past as a data mining tool for the Chinese government, including an allegation the company had plans to spy on a US citizen. Now, the FBI is expressing its deep concerns with the social media app. As reported by …

It can be difficult these days to quickly identify whether a message is spam or not. Sure, some are dead giveaways: Emails that get your name wrong; texts riddled with typos and grammatical mistakes; calls from services you don’t subscribe to. However, others are more sophisticated, copying legitimate design cues to trick users into thinking their alerts and websites are …