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QR code con: watch out for fakes in your email

You may use QR codes to look at menus in restaurants. Cyber crooks want to turn that habit into a jackpot. They’re sending out waves of attack emails with QR codes in them, hoping you’ll scan without thinking. Then they’ll try to grab your passwords, data, and money.

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Tricky apps download a digital shark onto your phone

You're usually safe to swim in the waters of an official app store. But from time to time, predators find their way in. Here's how to avoid the latest attack apps that can infest your phone with digital sharks.

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Would you fall for this fake email written by AI?

The future is here. Attackers have begun to use artificial intelligence to write effective and realistic phishing emails, just as security experts predicted. The target here: people at six universities. Now we need to change how we look at suspicious emails to protect ourselves even further.

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Cyber crooks can pose as your printer to steal your stuff

The attack is coming from inside the printer! A researcher shows how cyber crooks can pose as your printer to attack you and steal your stuff as well as what you can do to stop them. Two small steps can make a big difference and protect your from cyberattacks.

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