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Nowadays, AI tools are widespread in many forms, and I dare to say, in most aspects of our lives. A simple search engine query will summarize information from all 'relevant sources'. This saves us the time needed to browse through each page. Tools like ChatGPT and others are making life even easier, saving us valuable …
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It’s FRIDAY!!!!!!, the 13th. Usually, the month that falls after this peculiar date is irrelevant. Friday the 13th has always had an ominous connotation throughout time. In computing security, this is based on a particular virus that emerged in the late 1980s and its interesting characteristics. However, we cannot rule out the superstitions that served …
Early malware had specific behaviours and signatures that could be used to track them. These were very characteristic of each of them. For example, the Melissa Virus of 1999 was usually delivered via an email attachment and only invoked when a user opened the attached .doc file. It spread quickly due to mass emailing and …
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Logic bombs are a type of virus that can be believed to have a ‘consequence’. This was a quiet kind of threat that could wait. It waited until that perfect time for which it had been programmed arrived. Or it waited for that specific event. Unlike traditional malware that acts immediately upon execution, logic bombs …
Are Your Devices Always Listening? A Quick Guide to Smart Tech and Privacy In today’s world, filled with smart devices of all kinds, from books and computers to speakers, TVs, phones, and every other thing you can think of, as well as connected gadgets, a common question arises: Are our devices always listening? You may …
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