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Physical Media Is Back and So Is a New Kind of Piracy

Right now, streaming is the dominant way consumers access movies and TV shows but rising costs and the need to subscribe to multiple platforms are pushing people back toward physical media and, in growing numbers, toward piracy. Most consumers do not understand that buying a digital movie is not actually buying it: digital “purchase” is […]

Misleading Health App Ads Are a Growing Problem; Regulators Are Starting to Act

Don’t believe the ads in your Facebook and Instagram feeds: health apps that promise to measure blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood oxygen through your phone camera are almost always misleading. Your phone can only detect pulse, and even that is not medical grade. Regulators in the US and UK are starting to crack down, […]

Phone Scams Just Passed Email as the Threat Consumers Fear Most

The smartphone has become the most feared attack surface for everyday consumers, and AI voice cloning — which can replicate a trusted voice from three seconds of audio — is turning it into a serious organizational risk as well, with vishing attacks up 442% since last summer.

Cyberattacks Are Now the #1 Fear in the Boardroom; Ahead of War, Inflation, and Trade

Nearly two-thirds of CEOs at major companies now say cyberattacks are their single biggest business concern. This isn’t just one survey — every major global risk report is concluding the same thing.

Update: The Home Device Infiltration Story from Earlier This Year Has a New Chapter

Here’s the latest on the story we’ve been following about hostile nations’ ability to commandeer millions of wireless home devices in the US and Canada. A year ago, Google sued the operators of Badbox 2.0 — a China-linked botnet that had compromised over 10 million Android TV boxes and streaming devices. Now. the FBI seized […]

China’s Top AI Researchers Are Scared Too — and That Should Tell Us Something

China-linked actors are behind more than half of all state-sponsored attacks on tech companies, according to CrowdStrike. Chinese AI companies are under pressure from both sides — facing Western export restrictions on the chips they need while simultaneously watching their own proprietary models get targeted for theft, leaving researchers on both sides worried that the […]

The Boss Tells You to Stay Quiet About That Breach. The Law Says Otherwise.

More than half of security professionals say they’ve been told to hide a breach they knew should have been reported. That pressure isn’t coming from the mailroom: 69% of C-level executives, including CISOs and CIOs, report being given the same directive.

AI’s Favorite Words: You’re Seeing Them More Than Ever.

Researchers from the Institute for Human Development in Berlin analyzed thousands of LLM-edited documents to see how word usage changed after the release of ChatGPT. They compared those shifts against each word’s prior trajectory and found that terms like “delve,” “comprehend,” and “bolster” appeared far more often than historical patterns would have predicted.

Social Media Shifts Again: Now Meta’s Threads is the Darling

Here’s the latest proof that social media is a strategic risk surface, not just a marketing channel. New numbers show Meta’s Threads app has blown past 500 million monthly users and now beats X. The mid-2026 scorecard: Facebook counts around 3 billion monthly active users, Instagram is around 2 billion, TikTok is near or above […]

Cyber Insurance Premiums Will Stabilize in Coming Months,

But Claims Will Face More Scrutiny Than Ever Cyber insurers are shifting from “write the check after the breach” to “prove you’re resilient up front.” The industry is tightening underwriting and putting more scrutiny on whether organizations really have strong controls in place.

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