Unwrapping a new gadget this holiday season will put a big smile on your face but things may quickly turn sour if the device and data on it aren’t secured properly. As the festive season approaches, we’re all looking forward to being pampered by our friends and family. Increasingly, this means our stockings will be … More Safeguard the joy: 10 tips for securing your shiny new device
AI-driven voice cloning can make things far too easy for scammers – I know because I’ve tested it so that you don’t have to learn about the risks the hard way. The recent theft of my voice brought me to a new fork in the road in terms of how AI already has the potential of causing … More Your voice is my password
A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jews who used 23andMe services to find their ancestry info and genetic predispositions. 23andMe told BleepingComputer* that … More Hacker leaks millions of genetic data profiles
According to Bleeping Computer*, More than 101,000 ChatGPT user accounts have been stolen by information-stealing malware over the past year, according to dark web marketplace data. Cyberintelligence firm Group-IB reports having identified over a hundred thousand info-stealer logs on various underground websites containing ChatGPT accounts, with the peak observed in May 2023, when threat actors … More Over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts stolen via info-stealing malware
Twitter’s ditching of free text-message authentication doesn’t mean that you should forgo using 2FA. Instead, switch to another – and, indeed, better – 2FA option. Starting today, Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for all but paying users following a decision that, not unlike other recent moves by the social media giant, has been … More Twitter ends free SMS 2FA: Here’s how you can protect your account now
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