Why the FBI wants you to use end-to-end encrypted messaging

Why the FBI wants you to use end-to-end encrypted messaging

Think twice before sending your next text message. Or better yet, make sure you are using an end-to-end encryption method. Consumers regularly use different types of messaging technology from the biggest technology companies including Apple, Alphabet and Meta Platforms, including iMessage, Google Messages, WhatsApp and SMS, but the level of protection varies. Now, the U.S. … Read more

Weight-loss drug boom has become one of the internet’s biggest scams

Weight-loss drug boom has become one of the internet’s biggest scams

A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the case … Read more

EV tax credit ‘catastrophically stupid’: Incoming Ohio Sen. Moreno

EV tax credit ‘catastrophically stupid’: Incoming Ohio Sen. Moreno

Republican Senator-elect Bernie Moreno, who made his living as a luxury car dealer before running against and defeating Democrat Sherrod Brown in the large manufacturing state of Ohio, said he is aiming to become the “car czar” within the Senate for the next Trump administration. If Moreno is to fill that role, one of the … Read more

Biden ‘last minute spending spree’ on IRA, CHIPS, to get DOGE scrutiny

Biden ‘last minute spending spree’ on IRA, CHIPS, to get DOGE scrutiny

Department of Government Efficiency co-lead and former U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t prepared just yet to reveal his hand when it comes to where the new agency he will run with Elon Musk under President-elect Trump, DOGE, will target spending cuts. But one immediate area of focus where he isn’t holding back is what … Read more

In the new space race, hackers are hitching a ride into orbit

In the new space race, hackers are hitching a ride into orbit

The unoccupied space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module is pictured several hours before the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft would relocate there after undocking from Harmony’s forward port. NASA Johnson Space Center In the race to conquer the cosmos, the greatest challenge to space exploration might be the vastness of the unknown, but … Read more

New bitcoin bull market, beware of the same old crypto scams

New bitcoin bull market, beware of the same old crypto scams

Consumers beware: With bitcoin trading solidly over $90,000 this month and closing in on the $100,000 level, cybercriminals will be circling the wagons. “This is going to create a lot of FOMO and a lot of urgency around investing in bitcoin and paying with bitcoin,” said Eva Velasquez, president and chief executive of the Identity … Read more

The Pentagon battle inside U.S. for control of new Cyber Force

The Pentagon battle inside U.S. for control of new Cyber Force

A recent Chinese cyber-espionage attack inside the nation’s major telecom networks that may have reached as high as the communications of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance was designated this week by one U.S. senator as “far and away the most serious telecom hack in our history.” The U.S. has yet to figure … Read more

What internet data brokers have on you, and how you can get it back

What internet data brokers have on you, and how you can get it back

D3sign | Moment | Getty Images Data brokers have long operated in the shadows of the internet, quietly amassing unprecedented amounts of personal information on billions of people across the globe, but few realize just how deep this data collection really goes. In an age where every move you make online — every click, every … Read more

America’s largest water utility hacked as US infrastructure targeted

America’s largest water utility hacked as US infrastructure targeted

Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images American Water, the largest water utility in the U.S., disclosed that it had been hit by a cyberattack. The Camden, New Jersey-based company said in a security statement on its website that it had learned of “unauthorized activity in our computer networks and systems” last Thursday, which … Read more

AI should make you like your real estate agent more

AI should make you like your real estate agent more

Real estate agent and reality television star Ryan Serhant. Newspix Real estate has been historically slow to modernize, but AI is changing that. The integration of artificial intelligence is transforming how buyers and sellers interact with agents, fundamentally altering competitive dynamics in the industry.  With AI reshaping daily operations of a real estate agent’s business … Read more