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tsingha25/Getty Images You can use Windows 11 with a Microsoft account or a local account (though Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to go local). More how-tos Either way, your password is your primary means of protecting your account from compromise. For that reason, you may want to change your password periodically, or at least change […] More
Image: Morsa Images/Getty Images Microsoft will soon make big visual changes to Edge on Windows 10 and 11 by making Adobe’s Acrobat rendering engine the basis for the browser’s built-in PDF reader and showing the Adobe brand in all PDF images. The Acrobat-powered Microsoft Edge will start rolling out to Windows 10 and 11 devices […] More
KanawatTH/Getty Images All manner of threat actors are trying to compromise OpenAI’s ChatGPT program, according to cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies. “At Check Point Research, we can see the Russians trying to break through the geo-regional restrictions put in place around ChatGPT,” said Pete Nicoletti, field chief information security officer for Check Point, in […] More
Image: Getty Reddit has confirmed its systems were hacked last weekend as the result of a sophisticated and highly targeted phishing attack: the attackers gained access to documents, code, and some internal business systems. Late on February 5, Reddit became aware of the phishing campaign that targeted its employees. The attacker sent out “plausible-sounding prompts”, […] More
Image: Getty/Manuel Breva Colmeiro Falling victim to a phishing attack now regularly costs businesses over $1 million — and the financial damages are rising as organizations struggle to protect users and networks against email-based cyberattacks. Phishing attacks are one of the most common cybersecurity threats businesses face today because cyber criminals know that employees at […] More
Image: AerialPerspective Images/Getty Images The US Department of Commerce’s technical standards organization NIST has nominated the Ascon group of cryptographic algorithms for protecting small devices and information transmitted to and from IoT devices. NIST will later this year publish the “lightweight cryptography” standard after picking the Ascon family for the task. Also: What is the […] More
Image: Morsa Images/Getty Images The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have released a joint advisory warning about an ongoing ESXiArgs ransomware campaign targeting unpatched and out-of-service or out-of-date versions of the VMware ESXi hypervisor for virtual machines (VMs). According to CISA, 3,800 VMware ESXi servers have been compromises globally, potentially […] More
Image: Getty/Georgijevic Email is ubiquitous in the workplace, meaning that — whether we like it or not — it’s still the key method of communication many of us use for getting things done. Unfortunately, cyber criminals and scammers are highly aware of this fact, and try to exploit our reliance on email by distributing business email […] More
