A new year means another tax season—and all the associated headaches. Not just navigating the byzantine maze of US tax code, but dodging related scams, too. One particular tax scam is especially thorny since it…
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Jan 20, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan As the digital world becomes more complicated, the lines between national security and cybersecurity are starting to fade. Recent cyber sanctions and intelligence moves show a reality where malware and fake…
I don’t know about you, but working on multiple devices at once makes me feel like some kind of 90s hacker. I’m programming on my PC, answering emails on my laptop, responding to chat messages…
You may have heard the news about the PowerSchool breach—hackers breaking into a software system that helps schools keep track of student data, then demanding a ransom in exchange for not leaking the information. Depending…
There are lots of reasons why you might find that your MacBook won’t turn on, or your Mac won’t start up, but you probably just want to get it working again. We’ll run through the…
Apple Intelligence arrived on the Mac in October 2024, and if you’ve been looking for it on your Mac and can’t find it, you’re probably not alone. It’s not as if there’s an app called…
Every week seems to bring news of another data breach, and it’s no surprise why: securing sensitive data has become harder than ever. And it’s not just because companies are dealing with orders of magnitude…
Unlike Sir Keir Starmer (who, rather ominously, says he wants to mainline the technology into Britain’s veins) I’m broadly pessimistic about AI. We may not be talking existential doom—if you ask me, the chances of…
Jan 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Solana Cybersecurity researchers have identified three sets of malicious packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that come with capabilities to steal data and even…
As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are at particular risk of having their data stolen.…