Cybersecurity

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How Zero-Day Exploits Work—and Why They Cost Millions Technology

How Zero-Day Exploits Work—and Why They Cost Millions

Zero-day exploits target software flaws unknown to vendors, leaving no time to patch. This explainer covers how they are discovered, weaponized, trade...

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Cyberbullying: 10 Convicted for Spreading Rumors About Brigitte Macron Culture

Cyberbullying: 10 Convicted for Spreading Rumors About Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found ten people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron for spreading false rumors about her gender identity. Sentences range up to...

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How Data Extortion Works—and Why It Replaced Ransomware Technology

How Data Extortion Works—and Why It Replaced Ransomware

Data extortion attacks skip encryption entirely, stealing sensitive files and threatening to publish them unless victims pay. With an elevenfold surge...

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What Is Digital Sovereignty and Why Countries Pursue It Technology

What Is Digital Sovereignty and Why Countries Pursue It

Digital sovereignty is the ability of nations to control their own data, infrastructure, and technology. As dependence on a handful of US tech giants...

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How Deepfake Medical Images Work—and Why They Fool Doctors Technology

How Deepfake Medical Images Work—and Why They Fool Doctors

AI can now generate synthetic X-rays so realistic that radiologists and other AI systems struggle to tell them apart from authentic scans, raising urg...

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How Post-Quantum Cryptography Works—and Why It Matters Technology

How Post-Quantum Cryptography Works—and Why It Matters

Quantum computers threaten to break the encryption that protects banking, email, and national secrets. Post-quantum cryptography uses new math problem...

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What Are Zero-Day Exploits and How Do They Work? Technology

What Are Zero-Day Exploits and How Do They Work?

Zero-day exploits target software flaws unknown to vendors, giving defenders zero days to respond. This explainer covers how they work, who buys them,...

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Why Your Router Is the Most Hackable Device at Home Technology

Why Your Router Is the Most Hackable Device at Home

Routers are the most vulnerable devices on home and business networks, yet most users never update their firmware or change default passwords. Here's...

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How Fitness Apps Leak Military Secrets Technology

How Fitness Apps Leak Military Secrets

Fitness tracking apps like Strava have repeatedly exposed the locations of military bases, aircraft carriers, and world leaders' bodyguards. Here's ho...

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What Is Negative Light and How It Hides Secret Data Technology

What Is Negative Light and How It Hides Secret Data

Negative luminescence is a counterintuitive physics phenomenon where a device emits less infrared radiation than expected — and researchers are now us...

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How AI Deepfakes Work—and Why They're So Hard to Stop Technology

How AI Deepfakes Work—and Why They're So Hard to Stop

AI-generated deepfakes can swap faces, fabricate voices, and create nonconsensual intimate images of real people in minutes. Here's how the technology...

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Cyberattack on NCBJ: Traces Lead to Iran Science

Cyberattack on NCBJ: Traces Lead to Iran

Hackers attacked the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Świerk, Poland, but Polish security systems repelled the attack. Minister Gawkowski point...

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