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Are internet cookies as tasty as they sound, or are they simply bad for your system? Visit a website and (especially if you’re in the European Union) you’re likely to be hit with yet another annoying popup asking if you want to allow cookies. Most of us have done this next: just click ‘Accept’ to get to where you need to go. Yet according to research by All About Cookies1, less than 40% of people know what an internet (as opposed to a delicious, crunchy) cookie is. What’s wor

While proof of concept hacks are real, demos and warnings are not the same as attacks in the real-world. Key takeaways Juice jacking is what happens when hackers modify public charging stations to steal data from or install malware on smart devices. Although no real-world attack has ever been documented, researchers continue to prove it’s technically possible; most recently in a 2025 study on “ChoiceJacking.” Fortunately, iPhones (iOS 18.4+) and Android 15 devices have strong

Using chatbots for medical advice could elicit hallucinations and even expose you to security and privacy risks. Here’s what’s at stake and how to stay safe. For better or worse, chatbots are changing the way we think, learn and perceive the world around us. This kind of disruption is manifest in many areas of life, but perhaps one of the most sensitive and often concerning is the growing use of generative AI (GenAI) tools for healthcare. Alongside a number of freely availabl

Smart glasses allow anyone to track and record the world around them. That could put your data and the privacy of those nearby at risk. Fashion and many other trends have a way of reappearing every few years. So we probably shouldn’t be surprised that smart glasses are doing the rounds once more, after a failed attempt by Google to popularize them over a decade ago. The difference this time round is that they’re not just more stylish – and arguably harder to tell from regular

Restricting end-to-end encryption on a single-country basis would not only be absurdly difficult to enforce, but it would also fail to...

Apple’s iPhones have long been considered among the most secure devices on the planet. But they’re not perfect. Here's why. Despite...

Bitsight has identified more than 40,000 internet-exposed security cameras worldwide, posing serious privacy and security risks,...

As the sun sets on Windows 10 OS this coming October 14, 2025, businesses must heed the call to upgrade, lest they find themselves adrift...

You should think twice before trusting your AI assistant, as database poisoning can markedly alter its output – even dangerously so....

Incoming laws, combined with broader developments on the threat landscape, will create further complexity and urgency for security and...