If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, ...

QR code phishing – also known as quishing – has reached record levels in ESET telemetry. ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI ...

The Epstein files were supposed to reveal everything. Millions of documents, emails, and records—finally released to the public. But the deeper you look, the more unsettling it becomes. Missing ...

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...

Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society. As president of the nonprofit foundation behind the encrypted messaging app Signal, she now finds herself ...

North Korean threat actors are escalating the PolinRider supply chain attack across Go, Packagist, and npm package ...

An ongoing malware campaign is targeting WhatsApp users in multiple countries with deceptive messages that push VBScript files, leading to remote system access. The threat actor is using file names ...

Researchers at Sysdig say they have observed, for the first time, a ransomware attack carried out almost entirely by an AI agent. According to the ...

The first time I spoke with Rebecca Saltzburg, she told me Tulsi Gabbard was a freethinker who took orders from no one. “I didn’t always agree with Tulsi on everything,” Saltzburg, who worked on ...