Why Signature-Based Email Security Is Dying – and What to Use Instead The way attackers use email has changed fundamentally. For years, antivirus engines and spam filters relied on signatures—digital fingerprints of known malicious files or URLs. If a piece of malware had been seen before, the filter blocked it. That model assumed threats were static and could be cataloged. That assumption no longer holds. ...
Your Browser Is Too Nosy: 5 Settings You Need to Change Now Your web browser collects a surprising amount of information about you: the sites you visit, what you search for, your device type, screen resolution, installed fonts, and even your approximate location. This data is used for advertising, analytics, and sometimes shared with third parties you’ve never heard of. ...
Your Inbox’s Old Defenses Are Fading – And Scammers Are Already Using AI to Fill the Gap For years, the security of your email worked on a simple assumption: most scams look alike. If a message contained a known malicious link or a suspicious attachment that matched a database of threats, your email provider would flag or block it. That approach, built on “signatures,” has been slowly losing ground. ...
Brave now lets you isolate work and personal browsing with containers — here’s how If you’ve ever wished you could stay logged into two different Google accounts at once without using a separate browser, you’ll appreciate what Brave just added. The browser now includes built-in support for containers — a way to keep cookies, sessions, and site data separated by task or identity. Firefox users have had this for years through an extension. Brave is catching up with a native implementation that hooks into its existing privacy tools. ...
Instagram’s New AI Image Generator: Are Your Photos Being Used Without Your Permission? If you have a public Instagram account, your photos may now be feeding a new AI image generator from Meta. The tool, which can turn existing images into new ones — including deepfakes — has alarmed privacy experts and raised questions about consent. Here’s what happened and what you can do about it. ...
New Study: Medical AI Puts Some Patients’ Privacy at Greater Risk – What to Do If you’ve used an AI-powered symptom checker, a telehealth platform, or a mental health chatbot recently, your medical data may have ended up in places you didn’t expect. A study published in July 2026 by Telehealth.org found that not all patients face the same level of data exposure risk when using medical AI tools. Some groups are significantly more exposed than others. ...
Why Old Email Filters Can’t Protect You Anymore (And What Will) You get an email from a vendor you use. It mentions the last invoice you paid, references a real employee name, and has a link that looks correct at a glance. Nothing triggers your spam filter. But the email is fake—crafted specifically for you by an AI that studied your company’s public data. ...
Medical AI Privacy Risks: Are You More Exposed Than You Think? If you’ve used a symptom checker, a mental health chatbot, or a wellness app powered by artificial intelligence, you’ve shared personal health information with a system that may not treat everyone’s data equally. A recent study published on Telehealth.org has shed light on an uncomfortable truth: the privacy risks posed by medical AI tools are not evenly distributed. Some patients are more exposed than others, often in ways that reflect existing disparities in healthcare. ...
Boost Your Mac’s Security and Productivity with These 4 Free Apps It’s easy to assume that a capable Mac setup requires a bundle of paid software. Between subscription fatigue and the rising cost of premium tools, many users stick with what came pre-installed. But there are genuinely free, well-maintained applications that can handle tasks you might otherwise pay for—and some of them improve your security while they’re at it. ...
How Instagram’s New AI Image Generator Puts Your Privacy at Risk (And What to Do About It) Privacy experts are raising red flags about Instagram’s AI image generator. Here’s how it works, what data it collects, and how you can protect yourself. ...