Malwarebytes earns PCMag Best Tech Brand spot, scores 100% with MRG Effitas
Malwarebytes is on a roll. Recently named one of PCMag’s “Best Tech Brands for 2026,” Malwarebytes also scored 100% on the first-ever MRG Effitas consumer…
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Discord will limit profiles to teen-appropriate mode until you verify your age
Discord announced it will put all existing and new profiles in teen-appropriate mode by default in early March. The teen-appropriate profile mode will remain in…
How safe are kids using social media? We did the groundwork
When researchers created an account for a child under 13 on Roblox, they expected heavy guardrails. Instead, they found that the platform’s search features still…
Man tricked hundreds of women into handing over Snapchat security codes
Fresh off a breathless Super Bowl Sunday, we’re less thrilled to bring you this week’s Weirdo Wednesday. Two stories caught our eye, both involving men…
Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been serving a trojanized installer that silently converts victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes—and it…
AI chat app leak exposes 300 million messages tied to 25 million users
An independent security researcher uncovered a major data breach affecting Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI chat apps on Google Play…
Is your phone listening to you? (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E03)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… In January, Google settled a lawsuit that pricked up a few ears: It agreed to pay $68…
Apple Pay phish uses fake support calls to steal payment details
It started with an email that looked boringly familiar: Apple logo, a clean layout, and a subject line designed to make the target’s stomach drop.…
Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC
Cybercriminals behind a campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX are taking phishing one step further by delivering malware inside virtual hard disks that pretend to be ordinary PDF…
Flock cameras shared license plate data without permission
Mountain View, California, pulled the plug on its entire license plate reader camera network this week. It discovered that Flock Safety, which ran the system,…
Grok continues producing sexualized images after promised fixes
Journalists decided to test whether the Grok chatbot still generates non‑consensual sexualized images, even after xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and X, the social…
Firefox is giving users the AI off switch
Some software providers have decided to lead by example and offer users a choice about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) features built into their products. The…