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Deepfake Safety: Five Things You Can Do Today

The generation of images, videos, and voices through artificial intelligence is evolving at a pace that demands we establish clear criteria and good habits to defend ourselves from the dangers of abusing these technologies. Deepfakes are already part of our everyday online life, so it is a very good idea…

Top Online Scams to Be Aware of in 2025

The internet is undoubtedly full of great content, hobbies, information, offers, products, and people, but there’s also a darker side to it. We might not realise it, but every day we’re exposed to threats and scams as we navigate the online world. Curiosity and trust can be exploited to lure…

Meet the new features for Avast Free AV and Avast Premium Security

With millions of active users worldwide, Avast stands as a benchmark in cybersecurity. Why? Because of the quality of its solutions, the reach of its tools and because it is a platform in continuous evolution. A platform that today, once again, places our security at the forefront by reinforcing every…

Trump Given Credit By Intel For $7bn US Factory Started Under Obama
Intel CEO’s statement that Arizona plant is because of Trump’s policies skews truth… Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, used a meeting with President Donald Trump to announce it would invest approximately $7bn building a factory in Arizona and create 3,000 jobs. The densely packed Oval Office meeting, filled with members of... Read more
MacOS Threat Proves You Can Teach An Old Virus New Tricks
New macOS malware exploits old Windows tricks to get into your system. One of the many things that Apple devotees tout about their preferred technology is the perceived lack of malicious software targeting various operating systems in their biosphere. Whether it’s for Mac or the mobile App Store, the... Read more
1.5 Million WordPress Sites Defaced By Hackers
WordPress software security flaw allowed hackers to vandalise thousands of domains and websites. The internet-wide defacement of the WordPress blog websites was caused by a now patched security flaw. Experts have said that anywhere between 1 million and 1.5 million web pages have been affected. Web security company Sucuri... Read more
Twitter Releases New Anti-Abuse Tools
Twitter has announced more changes intended to limit the amount of abuse on its network, but is it too little too late? Twitter has announced three main changes to its platforms to challenge online abuse at some point in the “coming weeks”. The move comes as the platform continues to... Read more
Five Arrested In ‘Fully Loaded’ Kodi Streaming Box Raids
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling set-top boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, TV and films for free. As reported by the BBC, the sale of so-called “fully loaded Kodi boxes” has been called a “top priority” by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The five... Read more
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Word From Our Editor: Flying Cars Might Just Happen After All
The stuff of fantasy for decades, are flying cars to become reality at last? It’s easy to think that our fascination with flying cars is a recent phenomenon. However, way back in 1940, Henry Ford famously predicted: “Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may... Read more
Elon Musk: PayPal Then SpaceX, Now A Tunnel Under LA
Is the tech entrepreneur serious about his solution to traffic congestion? While necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes the greatest inventions are borne out of pure irritation and access to Twitter. Famed game-changer Elon Musk, frustrated at sitting in dead standstill Los Angeles traffic, tweeted an innocuous and humorous... Read more
UK Tries To Stop Piracy By Asking Nicely
Instead of threats and suspended service, ISPs are appealing to peoples’ sense of decency. Internet service providers in the UK are switching gears when it comes to fighting file sharing and piracy, especially of high-dollar entertainment content. Instead of threats and suspended service, ISPs are appealing to the perpetrators’... Read more
Reason Core Security Removes Malware, Adware And Much More
Reason Core Security is a Windows-based antivirus that protects and removes malware, adware and much more. Hacking, data breaches, and zero day flaws keep making headlines every day, and new forms of cyberattack are a constant threat to government agencies, businesses, and individual users alike. With the current debate about... Read more
Security Firm To Buy Old Exploits From Hackers
San Francisco-based Zimperium will acquire undisclosed code for vulnerabilities that have already been fixed. The company’s new N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program aims to pay security researchers from a $1.5 million pool for exploits targeting vulnerabilities in software that has already been patched. This is major a departure from most other similar... Read more
Facebook And Google Join With French Media To Fight ‘Fake News’
Google and Facebook have announced partnership ahead of French presidential elections in April. Both Facebook and Google will work with French media brands to fact check and flag hoaxes, conspiracy theories or propaganda; more commonly referred to as “fake news”, in a move that mirrors similar efforts already under way in the... Read more
2.5million PlayStation And Xbox Forum Accounts Breached
Microsoft and Sony gamer accounts hacked via ISO forums. Data breaches and hacking events are a record-setting, multi-billion-dollar annual headache for companies of every size and industry. In fact, the Identity Theft Resource Center has only discovered one year in the past ten or so in which the number of data... Read more
US Judge Rules Google Must Hand Over Foreign Emails
A top U.S. judge has ruled that Google, unlike Microsoft, must comply with FBI search warrants for emails held on its servers outside the United States. The decision diverges from a federal appeals court that came to an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft. The law that... Read more
The Damage Of Data Breaches
Cisco Annual Cybersecurity Report shows staggering cost of breaches. Data breaches have been setting new records almost every year for the past decade, and as such, the numbers of compromised consumer records floating around the dark web is astronomical. But while companies of every size and in every industry... Read more
Uber CEO Quits Trump Advisory Board After Public Pressure
Travis Kalanick leaves advisory economic council after intense criticism and viral online boycott of Uber. In an email to staff that was subsequently leaked to several news agencies, Kalanick said: “Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda but unfortunately it... Read more
Trump’s Power Trip Spells Trouble For Silicon Valley
Tech and internet giants are hitting back against the latest White House decision. The internet is experiencing a very real phenomenon of fatigue and overload related to political news, and yet somehow, every day seems to bring a fresh new crop of controversy and outcry. The most recent Donald... Read more
Facebook Loses $500m Oculus Virtual Reality Case
A court the US has ordered Facebook to pay $500m to ZeniMax Media Inc after ruling the social media giant unlawfully used the firm’s virtual reality technology. The virtual reality headset maker that Facebook bought in 2014 for $2 billion was found to have used stolen computer code acquired from ZeniMax... Read more