Best Mac for programming and coding
Do you have a great idea for an iOS app or a Mac app? Looking for the right Mac to code it on? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we will look…
Is 2024 the year Apple gets everything right?
Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a…
WordPress Admins Urged to Remove miniOrange Plugins Due to Critical Flaw
Mar 18, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Vulnerability WordPress users of miniOrange’s Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall plugins are being urged to delete them from their websites following the discovery of a critical security flaw. The…
APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme
Mar 18, 2024NewsroomCyber Warfare / Malware The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing campaigns that employ lure documents imitating government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South…
Score a year of NordVPN and Microsoft 365 Personal for only $35
If you recently bought a new computer or are just looking to upgrade your old rig, you’re going to want some professional software to help it shine. This deal for a one-year subscription to both…
Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer
Mar 16, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated…
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. Getty Images Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns…
Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected
Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries. Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday…
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
Getty Images It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT…
New SIM-jacking attack silently empties bank accounts
You’ve done the usual things to protect your sensitive accounts. You use a unique password. You have alerts sent to your phone. But a thief could still bypass all that with a simple “hack”—stealing your…