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    Five easy steps to keep your smartphone safe from hackers

    Image: Getty/MoMo Productions Your smartphone is the key to not just your online life, but increasingly, almost every aspect of your everyday life.  Special Feature You use it for communicating with friends and family, taking photos, sharing posts on social media, browsing the web, accessing your bank account, online shopping, streaming and much more. That’s […] More

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    How to update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac now to fix a critical security vulnerability

    Michael Gariffo/ZDNET Earlier this week Apple pushed out critical updates for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS that patch an exploit that’s being used right now to attack systems.  The fact that this vulnerability is being used to attack systems means that these updates need to be installed as soon as possible. While Apple products are generally […] More

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    Fraudsters are using machine learning to help write scam emails in different languages

    Image: Getty/BongkarnThanyakij Business Email Compromise (BEC) gangs are making their payment fraud scams even more effective by using translation tools and machine learning to convincingly distribute emails in multiple languages.  BEC attacks are some of the most effective and financially damaging cyber attacks, with the FBI estimating that they have cost businesses a combined total […] More

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    The war in Ukraine has shaken up the cybercriminal ecosystem, Google says

    Getty Images One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war continues — including an ever-evolving digital component that has implications for the future of cybersecurity around the world. Among other things, the war in Ukraine has upended the Eastern European cybercriminal ecosystem, according to cybersecurity experts from Google, shaking up the way ransomware attacks are […] More

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    Microsoft fixes three zero-days in its 75-flaw February Patch Tuesday

    Image: katleho Seisa/Getty Images Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday brings fixes for 75 flaws, and among them are fixes for three vulnerabilities for which exploits already exist. The three zero days affect Microsoft Publisher, the Windows Common Log File System Driver, and the Windows Graphics Component.  Also: Microsoft: We are tracking these 100 active ransomware gangs […] More