Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Browser extensions, the software add-ons that help users customize and enhance their web browsers, are wildly popular. Some of the most-used extensions find shopping deals, fix…
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Large language models can help detect social media bots—but can also make the problem worse
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An external study of Twitter in 2022 estimated that between a third and two thirds of accounts on the social media site were bots. And many…
Future cybersecurity incidents are almost a certainty, asserts US policy arm of global computing society
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Association for Computing Machinery’s US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) has released a “Statement on Mass Cybersecurity Incidents Likely to Recur.” On July 18, 2024, CrowdStrike,…
Gift card scams generate billions for fraudsters and industry—how one 83-year-old fell into the ‘fear bubble’
Credit: Godisable Jacob from Pexels Wednesday morning, the day before Thanksgiving, Mae awoke, set her hair in curlers and switched on her laptop. The screen froze and a message appeared.…
Protecting connected, self-driving vehicles from hackers
This Lincoln MKZ is an open connected and automated vehicle for academic and industry testing at Mcity, a world-class proving ground for advanced mobility vehicles operated by University of Michigan’s…
The influence of optimism bias and loss aversion in cyber risk management decisions
by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. The left panel displays indifference curves describing the optimality of staying on the reference point, whereas the right panel shows the indifference curve of the…
Ransomware attack disables computers at blood center serving 250 hospitals in southeast US
A health care worker walks by the Big Red Bus from OneBlood outside at Cano Health in Hialeah, Fla., July 29, 2020. Oneblood, which serves much of the southeast United…
Undersea internet cables connecting Australia to the world threatened by boats, spies, natural disasters
International submarine cables connecting Australia. Credit: ACMA The Australian government this week announced it would spend A$18 million over four years on a new center aimed at keeping safe the…
