What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
Education Week

These Students Tricked Teachers With Phishing Emails—for a Good Cause

Creating their own fake phishing emails, and using them to train teachers, offers students a great lesson in digital citizenship, a focus for the district for more than a decade, Jesse said. “This is ...

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...
TechSpot

Google denies Gmail reads your emails and attachments to train AI, but here's how to opt-out anyway

Connecting the dots: Gmail users who are concerned about how Google handles their data should look for the toggles for smart features in the settings menu. The fine print states that the AI ...
Mashable

Google says it isn't using your Gmail to train AI

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...
The New York Times

Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Officials on Partisan Email Messages

The email accounts of furloughed government workers had been commandeered to send partisan attacks against Democrats, a move that the ruling said had “added insult to injury.” By Chris Cameron ...
PC World

If you’re using these password managers, watch out for scam emails

Remembering hundreds of secure passwords isn’t really possible unless you’re some kind of savant. What to do? Well, passkeys are a great alternative, but they’re far from universal… so some kind of ...
Snopes.com

Scientists taught spinach plants to send emails? Not exactly

For years, a rumor has circulated online that scientists taught spinach how to send emails. According to social media posts, researchers engineered the leafy green vegetable to detect explosives in ...
Lifehacker

You Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails From Your Business Gmail Account

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...
WGAL

Scammers target older adults with fake Social Security email

EMAIL THAT’S MAKING THE ROUNDS. FOLKS. SCAMMERS KNOW THAT IF THEY WANT TO GET THE ATTENTION OF POTENTIAL SENIOR CITIZEN VICTIMS, ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS THREATEN THEIR BENEFITS. THINGS LIKE MEDICAL ...
PBS

Germany and Western allies sending military aid to Ukraine using new NATO supply line

BERLIN (AP) — Germany announced on Wednesday that it will work with a group of Ukraine’s Western backers to supply a package of military aid to the war-ravaged country worth up to $500 million using a ...