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 ...

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 ...
The Hacker News

Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens

The module targets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Continue, and Windsurf. It also harvests API keys for nine large language models (LLM) providers: ...
CNET

How to Turn Your Old Phone Into the Ultimate MP3 Player

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...