In 2019, a ransomware attack hit LifeLabs, a Canadian medical testing company. The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable…
Recently we’ve seen some heated discussion about Microsoft’s connected experiences feature. As in many discussions lately there seems to be no room for middle ground,…
Spotify and Amazon services have been flooded with bogus listings that push dubious “forex trading” sites, Telegram channels, and suspicious links claiming to offer pirated…
Andrew Tate’s online education platform The Real World—formerly known as Hustlers University—has been hacked and user data has been stolen. Hacktivists flooded the primary chatroom…
Meta provided insight this week into the company’s efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on…
Tech support scammers are again stooping low with their email campaigns. This particular one hints that one of your contacts may have met an untimely…
Apple has released security patches for most of its operating systems, including iOS, Mac, iPadOS, Safari, and visionOS. The updates for iOS and Intel-based Mac…
A mobile network operator has called in the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the battle against phone scammers. Virgin Media O2 in the UK…
A large social media campaign was launched to promote a free Artificial Intelligence (AI) video editor. If the “free” part of that campaign sounds too…
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Meta AI represent a stronger threat to data privacy than the social media juggernauts that cemented…
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that…
Accounting software QuickBooks, by Intuit, is a popular target for India-based scammers, only rivaled for top spot by the classic Microsoft tech support scams. We’ve…
