How McAfee’s Scam Detector Checks QR Codes and Social Messages
Scams don’t always arrive with obvious warning signs. They show up as QR codes on parking meters. As casual DMs that start...
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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
McAfee Report: In the AI Slop Era, Americans Spend Weeks Each Year Questioning What’s Real
Merriam-Webster’s word of 2025 was “slop.” Specifically, AI slop. Low-effort, AI-generated content now fills social feeds, inboxes, and message threads....
WhatsApp rolls out Strict Account settings to strengthen protection for high-risk users
WhatsApp rolls out Strict Account settings to strengthen protection for high-risk users Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026 Meta announced new...
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Active Office Zero-Day
Image: iLixe48/Envato Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The...
Apple Issues Urgent Software Fix Affecting Over 2 Billion iPhones
Image: vadymvdrobot/Envato Apple has rolled out a wave of urgent software updates… and this time, the warning signs are hard...
When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue
At 6:32 a.m., a hospital in Belgium pulled the plug on its own servers. Something was already inside the network,...
NDSS 2025 – On the Robustness Of LDP Protocols For Numerical Attributes Under Data Poisoning Attacks
Session 10C: Privacy Preservation Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xiaoguang Li (Xidian University, Purdue University), Zitao Li (Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc.),...
Power shortages, carbon capture, and AI automation: What’s ahead for data centers in 2026
“Despite a broader use of AI tools in enterprises and by consumers, that does not mean that AI compute, AI...
Celebrating Data Privacy Week with NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program
Credit: NIST Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week!Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the...
Shadowserver finds 6,000+ likely vulnerable SmarterMail servers exposed online
Shadowserver finds 6,000+ likely vulnerable SmarterMail servers exposed online Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2026 Shadowserver researchers found 6,000+ SmarterMail servers...
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Office, GNU InetUtils, SmarterTools SmarterMail, and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Office, GNU InetUtils, SmarterTools SmarterMail, and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini...
The AI Fix #85: ChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone’s wrong about LLMs
In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet’s mental health...
Keyfactor Allies with IBM Consulting to Spur PQC Adoption
Keyfactor has partnered with IBM Consulting to enable organizations to accelerate adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) before existing legacy encryption...
In Davos, warnings about AI and jobs
At Anthropic, Amodei said he envision a time when the company needs less people in junior and intermediate positions. “We’re...
WhatsApp Rolls Out Lockdown-Style Security Mode to Protect Targeted Users From Spyware
Ravie LakshmananJan 27, 2026Mobile Security / Spyware Meta on Tuesday announced it's adding Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp to secure...
