AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication

AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate ...

Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...
Education Week

Hackers Are ‘Getting Really Smart.’ How Schools Can Boost Their Defenses

What’s especially worrisome about AI-driven cyberattacks for school district technology director Gary Lackey is that the better hackers get at using the technology to mimic real people, the more ...