Category: MalwareBytes

A plate of fries and ketchup
17
Jun
2025

Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy

In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, the UK’s privacy czar has wagged a finger at air fryer…

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16
Jun
2025

The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Complex problems often assume complex solutions, but recent observations about increased levels…

week in security
16
Jun
2025

A week in security (June 9 – June 15)

June 13, 2025 – Users of the Meta AI seem to be sharing their sensitive conversations with the entire world…

Meta AI logo
13
Jun
2025

Your Meta AI chats might be public, and it’s not a bug

Conversations that people are having with the Meta AI app are being exposed publicly, often without the users realizing it,…

A woman stands in front of a timetable that includes information about departing and arriving flights
12
Jun
2025

US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHS

A data broker owned by some of America’s biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the…

23andMe logo
11
Jun
2025

23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic data

In a Senate hearing adequately titled “23 and You: The Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe Bankruptcy,” 23andMe…

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11
Jun
2025

GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex trafficking

Michael James Pratt, the owner of pornographic websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in a US…

easily fionding a phone number
10
Jun
2025

Google bug allowed phone number of almost any user to be discovered

Google has fixed vulnerabilities that made it possible to retrieve the phone numbers of almost any Google user. The flaw…

44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds
10
Jun
2025

44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds

It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and…

scammed online? let us help
10
Jun
2025

Been scammed online? Here’s what to do

Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial…

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09
Jun
2025

How and where to report an online scam

If you’ve been scammed it’s really important to report it, if you can, in order to help prevent others falling…

week in security
09
Jun
2025

A week in security (June 1 – June 7)

June 6, 2025 – How to update Chrome on every Operating System (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, iOS) June…