This New Google Phishing Scam Looks Real – How to Spot It and Stay Safe A convincing new phishing campaign is making the rounds, designed to look exactly like a legitimate Google security alert. If you receive an unexpected notification claiming unusual activity on your account, it’s worth pausing before clicking anything. ...
How to Spot and Avoid Online Shopping Scams — Practical Tips to Keep Your Money Safe Online shopping is fast and convenient, but it also attracts scammers looking to steal your payment details, personal information, or even your identity. Reports from VA News (.gov) repeatedly warn consumers about schemes targeting everyone, especially veterans and older adults. Knowing the common tactics and taking a few simple precautions can make a real difference. ...
Is That Chrome Extension Collecting Your Data? How to Spot the Dangerous Ones It starts innocently enough. You need a quick tool—a grammar checker, a coupon finder, a tab manager—so you look it up in the Chrome Web Store, click “Add to Chrome,” and move on. Problem solved, right? But behind that simple action, a growing number of seemingly harmless extensions are being weaponized to steal passwords, track browsing, and exfiltrate entire email histories. ...
Don’t Get Tricked: Essential Tips to Avoid Online Shopping Scams Online shopping is convenient, but it also gives scammers a steady stream of opportunities. According to recent reports from the Federal Trade Commission, consumers lost billions of dollars to online shopping fraud in recent years. The problem is persistent enough that government agencies—including the VA—have issued repeated warnings. The good news: most scams follow predictable patterns. Once you know what to look for, you can shop with far less risk. ...
Are Your Chrome Extensions Safe? How to Spot Malicious Productivity Tools You probably have a handful of Chrome extensions installed: one for grammar checking, another for note-taking, maybe a password manager or a tab manager. They seem harmless, even essential. But right now, some of those extensions could be silently reading your emails, copying your passwords, or transmitting your browsing history to a server you’ve never heard of. ...
Norton Adds VPN and Guardrails for AI Agents — Here’s What It Means for Your Privacy If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT for help drafting an email, used Microsoft Copilot to summarize a meeting, or let an AI assistant read your calendar to suggest a schedule, you’ve handed over information that may not stay as private as you think. Most cloud-based AI agents send your prompts—and sometimes your personal data—to remote servers for processing. That traffic is typically encrypted in transit, but the platform provider still sees your input, and third parties (like your internet service provider) can see that you’re communicating with an AI service. ...
New VPN and Guardrails for AI Agents: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe AI assistants are no longer just chatbots that answer questions. Increasingly, they’re being designed to act on your behalf—booking appointments, making purchases, managing files, and even interacting with other websites or services. This shift, often called “agentic AI,” brings convenience but also introduces new risks. If an AI agent has access to your accounts or personal data, how do you know it won’t misuse that access or leak information in transit? ...
8.3 Billion Email Threats in Q1 2026: What Microsoft’s Report Means for Your Inbox If you’ve noticed more suspicious emails lately, you’re not imagining it. Microsoft’s latest threat intelligence report for the first quarter of 2026 reveals that the company detected 8.3 billion email-based phishing threats worldwide in just three months. That’s roughly 92 million phishing attempts per day. ...
Microsoft reports 8.3 billion email phishing threats in Q1 2026: What you need to know Microsoft’s latest email threat report for the first quarter of 2026 paints a stark picture: attackers are sending more phishing emails than ever, and they’re using AI and QR codes to slip past traditional filters. The company detected 8.3 billion phishing attempts in Q1 2026 alone — a figure that’s hard to wrap your head around, but one that directly affects anyone who uses email for work or personal life. ...
8.3 Billion Phishing Attacks in Q1 2026: What Microsoft’s Report Means for Your Inbox Every few months, Microsoft publishes a look at the threat data it sees across its email services. The latest report for the first quarter of 2026 contains a headline figure that is hard to ignore: more than 8.3 billion phishing threats were detected in that three-month period. That is roughly 90 million phishing attempts per day. ...