Why you need a fake online identity
The danger of using an unprotected identity Venturing online can be a dangerous business. Bad actors want your personal data, and will go to almost any lengths to get hold of it for their own…
April 2024
April 2024
Hotspot Shield review: This speedster VPN’s still got it
At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Good speeds Free version available Streaming supported servers Cons Expensive No independent audit Some privacy issues Our Verdict Hotspot Shield is a good-quality VPN with some of the fastest…
What is an AI PC, exactly? We cut through the hype
An AI PC is the next big thing in PCs…or so a lot of companies would have you believe. But what is an AI PC, why should you buy one, and what — if anything…
Forget the iPhone 16, Apple’s best new feature in 2024 will be for older iPhones too
The iPhone 16 lineup will bring in more money for Apple than anything else this year. As many other parts of the company (namely services) are growing, the overall fortunes of Apple still rise and…
Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users
Apr 24, 2024NewsroomEncryption / Mobile Security Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in…
eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners
A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm…
CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers
Apr 24, 2024NewsroomMalware / Data Security A new ongoing malware campaign has been observed distributing three different stealers, such as CryptBot, LummaC2, and Rhadamanthys hosted on Content Delivery Network (CDN) cache domains since at least…
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Getty Images Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware. The attack worked because the service delivered updates over HTTP, a protocol vulnerable to attacks that corrupt…
Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
Getty Images On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Its…
Photoshop took my favorite feature and massively boosted it with AI
It’s probably fair to say that the Generative Fill feature within Adobe Photoshop has utterly transformed my photo-editing workflow. Today, Adobe just made it better — and spun off several additional features that complement Generative…