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    How to password-protect your Private Browsing in MacOS Sonoma and Safari

    <!–> B2M Productions/Getty Images As an author of fiction (especially horror and thrillers), I often have to research things I wouldn’t want other people to know I’m looking for. For example, while writing a new romance/thriller series, I had to research how much time would elapse before the effects of benzodiazepine took hold.  That’s not […] More

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    What AI forgets could kill us, but new research is helping it remember

    <!–> Debrocke/ClassicStock/Getty Images According to most reports, AI will soon be everywhere, pretty much like sugar, or Taylor Swift. AI systems will soon form an intelligent backbone to everything we use or do and transform industries and society as a whole, say experts. Also: AI safety and bias: Untangling the complex chain of AI training […] More

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    Diverse threat intelligence key to cyberdefense against nation-state attacks

    <!–> Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Identifying the top nation-state actors can depend on who you ask, which underscores the need to gather threat intelligence from varied data sources.  In a climate where geopolitical issues now can drive industry discussions, organizations will be better served if they formulate their cybersecurity strategy on information that reflects threat activities […] More

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    Asian banks are a favorite target of cybercooks, and malicious bots their preferred tool

    <!–> Andrew Brookes/Getty Images Financial institutions are hot favorites among cybercriminals, with those in Asia-Pacific among the most targeted by malicious bot requests and API (application programming interface) attacks.  Malicious bot traffic in Asia-Pacific including Japan climbed 128% from last year, as hackers turned to bots for scale, efficiency, and impact. The region was the […] More

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    iPhone users get even more browser options as Vivaldi for iOS arrives

    <!–> Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The wait is finally over. For those MacOS users who’ve adopted Vivaldi as their desktop web browser of choice, the mobile version of the browser is now available.  But why does this matter? Flexibility. Also: The best secure browsers for privacy in 2023 Part of the problem with Safari is that […] More

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    IT teams are taking on more responsibilities with hybrid work and cloud adoption

    <!–> Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images IT and security teams now are responsible for more functions, while corporate networks expand their footprint with employees moving to hybrid work and applications moving to cloud platforms.  For instance, 52% of IT security professionals were not responsible for ensuring the security of both on-site and remote workers five years ago […] More

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    Your Bard conversations are someone else’s Google results

    Qi Yang via Getty Images If I told you that your seemingly private conversations with Bard are being indexed and appearing in Google search results, would you still use the AI chatbot? That’s exactly what’s happened, and Google is now scrambling to fix the issue. Users on X, formerly Twitter, shared screenshots showing links to […] More