QR codes are quickly becoming a favorite tool of bad actors looking to launch phishing attacks, with one cybersecurity vendor saying the strategy appeared in 22% of phishing campaigns it detected in the first weeks of October. The numbers collected by Hoxhunt feed into the growing amount of data detailing the rise of such QR-based..

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Google is strengthening its Google Play Protect tool with new real-time scanning features that aim to deal with the growing challenge of malicious apps that use polymorphic malware to evade detection. The new capabilities enable Play Protect to scan in real time apps that have never been scanned before and will let the Android device..

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It’s worthwhile to familiarize yourself with open source alternatives to popular commercial cybersecurity offerings.

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As violence and protests spread in the chaotic war between Israel and Hamas, evidence of the parallel battle going on in cyberspace continue to emerge. It started almost immediately after the initial bloody incursion by Hamas fighters into southern Israel October 7, with cybersecurity experts detecting multiple threat groups launching cyberattacks, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)..

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Investment money is flowing into a fast-growing digital identity solutions market that is being fueled by the ongoing increase in data breaches launched via identity scams, a government focus on the issue, and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. “The impact of the pandemic on the digital identity market cannot be overstated,” Liminal, a digital..

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Almost half of of Forbes Global 2000 companies do not have control over their branded artificial intelligence (.AI) domain names.

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Straya strikes back: Musk’s mob declines to answer questions, breaking law dunundah.

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As Microsoft aggressively integrates AI into its broad portfolio of products and services, the IT giant now is looking for help to ensure they are free of vulnerabilities. The company this month unveiled a new bug bounty program that will pay between $2,000 and $15,000 for flaws found in its AI-powered Bing offerings, including its..

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A survey of 1,005 IT decision-makers published today found 89% expected their organizations to use passwords for less than 25% of logins within five years.

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This is why we can’t have nice things: 38 victims of Apple’s “negligence” named in amended class action.

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