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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If there’s one thing that scam hunter Julie-Anne Kearns wants everyone to know, it is that no one is immune from a scam. And she would know—she fell for one last year. For years now, Kearns has made a name for herself on TikTok as a scam […]

Sometimes it can seem as though everything’s toxic online, and the latest good thing turned bad is here: Browser pop-ups that look like they’re trying to help or authenticate you could be programmed to steal data from your password manager. To make matters worse, most browser extension-based password managers are still vulnerable to the attack.

I’m starting to feel like a broken record, but I feel you should know that yet another AI has been found sharing private conversations so that Google was able to index them, and now they can be found in search results. It’s déjà vu in the world of AI: another day, another exposé about chatbot

Google has agreed to a $30 million settlement in the US over allegations that it illegally collected data from underage YouTube users for targeted advertising. The lawsuit claims Google tracked the personal information of children under 13 without proper parental consent, which is a violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The tech

Are AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered stuffed animals really the best alternative to screen time that we want to offer our children? Some AI startups think so. One of those startups is Curio, a company that describes itself as “a magical workshop where toys come to life.” Curio offers three different AI powered plushies named Grem, Gabbo,

Security alerts from tech companies are supposed to warn us when something might be amiss—but what if the alerts themselves are the risk? Scammers have long impersonated tech companies’ security and support staff as a way to sniff out users’ login credentials, and reports suggest that they’re doing it again, at scale. The attack goes

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Italian hotels breached for tens of thousands of scanned IDs National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak Romance scammers in Ghana charged with more than $100 million in theft Netflix scammers target jobseekers to trick them into handing over their Facebook logins Russians hacked US courts, say

The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Italy’s “Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale” (AGID) issued a warning that cybercriminals are selling stolen identity documents from hotels operating in Italy. This summer, a criminal hacker group named “mydocs” infiltrated the booking systems of at least ten Italian hotels, stealing high-resolution scans of ID documents, including passports and