Update Your Privacy Tools Now to Beat AI-Powered Cyberattacks: A How-To Guide
Update Your Privacy Tools Now to Beat AI-Powered Cyberattacks: A How-To Guide The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 makes it clear: artificial intelligence is making cybercrime faster, cheaper, and harder to spot. Attackers now use AI to automate phishing, create convincing deepfakes, and probe for system weaknesses in minutes instead of days. For the average internet user or small business owner, the old habit of “set it and forget it” with privacy tools no longer works. Here’s what the report tells us—and five concrete steps you can take today to reduce your risk. ...