Showing posts with label cybersecurity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cybersecurity. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Cybersecurity: AI Dulls Our Critical Thinking and Enables Scammers to be More Effective (Microsoft Warned Us!)

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The rise of "AI" (mostly Large Language Models, or LLMs, like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and so on) does enable a lot of "p...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Cybersecurity: Stop the Fake CAPTCHA Run Trap

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Recently, there has been a spade of reports in Reddit's /r/cybersecurity of a "new" attack that relies on users being unaware ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Cybersecurity: How Do You Know If Your Antivirus is Working (without actual Malware)?

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Antivirus is a lot like having insurance... you have it, but hope you never have to use it.  What if I tell you that you can test your antiv...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Cybersecurity: Stop Diagnosing Yourself with Pegasus!

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As one of the "trusted contributors" on /r/cybersecurity on Reddit.com, one of the FAQs was "Is my phone hacked with Pegasus?...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

App Discovery: Destiny, the secure cross-platform file transfer method

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Want to transfer a file across platforms (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, Linux) but can't find common ground? Destiny can help. Download ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Cybersecurity: Where did the term "pwn" come from?

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It is surprising how many people got the "true" origin of the verb "pwn" not quite right... even operators of "Have...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Cybersecurity: No, your email was (probably) NOT hacked, it's (probably) just spam

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Over in the subreddit /r/cybersecurityhelp we get one of these daily. This is NOT an exact copy, but the sentiments are the same.  Help! I g...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Darn it, Aliexpress, TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

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 Aliexpress.us is basically the international website of China's Alibaba group, sort of their international Amazon that long predates si...