Have you ever wondered what the first malware ever was? It was more like an experiment rather than a malicious tool of destruction that malware has become today. Although Creeper didn't do much damage it's interesting to reflect on how far malware has come.

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Microsoft introduced an upcoming AI tool that is able to remember everything you did on your PC and fetch results if you need to go back in time and remember. However with this tool came a mountain of distrust and security concerns. These are the concerns and how Microsoft addressed them.

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If you go to concerts or live shows sometimes like I do you've likely used Ticketmaster, as it has a strangehold over the industry. The morning after I saw a concert I woke up, checked Twitter, and saw that Ticketmaster had a massive data breach. This is what happened.

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After COVID-19 hit, telehealth businesses started booming and BetterHelp became especially prominent via YouTube and podcast sponsorships. However BetterHelp has been criticized for their data sharing practices, and the gray area they are in when it comes to regulations.

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Ethereum is a popular cryptocurrency, and some have started using bots to frontrun. Two brothers learned how they could exploit a vulnerability in these bots and make themselves $25 million richer.

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Dell is a massive provider of technology for organizations and home users alike, and although on first glance their data breach seems not to contain sensitive data it has likely opened the floodgates for scams and phishing opportunities.

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With online shopping being so popular, getting delivery updates is not so uncommon, but this has led to the rise of a prolific scam that is much bigger than you may think.

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The cloud is ever expanding and allowing people to easily scale up at rates previously impossible. However one thing that must be considered is that security becomes complicated. You have to really trust your cloud provider to hold up their end, and even trusted providers can have oversights.

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MFA is becoming more and more common, but with every security innovation, threat actors figure out ways around them. Recently it came out that an unknown actor was bribing employees at T-Mobile and Verizon to perform SIM swapping attacks, which can compromise SMS based MFA codes.

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In 2007 clickbait emails could make you part of a botnet that silenced cybersecurity professionals and performed attacks for anyone on the dark web willing to pay. Not a worm, but a Trojan, this is how the Storm Worm was ahead of its time.

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