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A new survey released today by Google and carried out with Morning Consult, reveals that over 60 percent of US consumers have seen an increase in scams over the past year, with a third personally experiencing a data breach due to a scam.

Most have seen scams through text messages, but over 61 percent say they've also been targeted via email. As people experience more scams though, they report feeling more confident in their ability to spot them.

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Valid account credentials -- with no MFA in place to protect the organization should they be
misused -- are still by far and away the biggest stumbling block for organizations investigated
by the Rapid7 IR team, occurring in 56 percent of all incidents in the first quarter of 2025.

Exposed RDP services account for six percent of incidents as the initial access vector (IAV) and were abused by attackers more generally in 44 percent of incidents.

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While it is undeniable that artificial intelligence is changing the shape of so many industries, it cannot be ignored that this comes at a cost. As well as resulting in lost jobs, AI is also incredibly energy hungry.

Just as there were concerns about the energy and environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, the transformations brought about by AI require astonishing amounts of power. Looking to try to solve this problem, Meta is turning to nuclear power as it aims to match its electricity usage with “100% clean and renewable energy “.

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Legacy technology is quickly becoming the silent killer of business growth. With many IT leaders still relying on outdated systems, companies using legacy tech face mounting security risks, inefficiency, and spiralling costs.

We spoke to Alex Jeffery, SVP of managed IT services, at OneAdvanced to discuss the challenges that prevent IT leaders from introducing the latest technology and how to get C-suite buy-in to address them.

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If you live in the US and have a PayPal account linked to your Google Wallet, you only have a few days left to use it for making payments.

Back in April, Google stopped users from being able to link their PayPal accounts to the Wallet app, but payments have still been possible. But come June 13, this is no longer going to be the case – here’s what you need to know.

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Microsoft is testing a new option within Windows 11 Settings called Quick Machine Recovery. The feature was first revealed at Ignite 2024 as part of the Windows Resiliency Initiative.

When enabled, the feature kicks in should Windows 11 fail to start, automatically attempting various recovery methods to fix the problem. The idea is to make system recovery tools more accessible, with the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) seen as too intimidating for some users.

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There have been various Photoshop offshoots available for mobile devices over the years, but now Adobe is taking things seriously. Having already released an iPhone version of Photoshop earlier this year, the company has now followed up with an Android app.

The arrival of Photoshop on Android is indicative of many things – the increased power of phones, Adobe’s interest in capturing more of the mobile market, and the growing demand of creatives to be able to work with powerful tools across more devices. What is particularly enticing about Photoshop for Android is the fact that it’s free.

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Here’s something you don’t see every day, folks: a lightbulb that doubles as a security camera. That’s exactly what Wyze is offering with its new Bulb Cam. Just screw it into a light socket and boom! You’ve got yourself a motion-activated lighting and a surveillance system in one. No wires, no batteries, no nonsense.

This thing records in 2K HD, sees in full color even at night, and has a 160-degree field of view. You can tilt, swivel, and adjust it to get the perfect angle. It’s powered by the socket itself, which means you don’t have to worry about finding an outlet or recharging anything. Setup is painless, too. You just pair it over Bluetooth and you’re good to go.

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Something pretty wild just happened in New York City, and you probably didn’t even hear it… literally. You see, a fully electric aircraft just landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport, making history as the first of its kind to touch down at any of the three major airports run by the Port Authority.

The plane, called ALIA, came from aerospace company BETA Technologies and flew about 45 minutes with a handful of passengers onboard. How cool is that?

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New research from Bitdefender shows that 84 percent of high severity attacks are using Living off the Land (LOTL) techniques, exploiting legitimate tools used by administrators.

One of the findings is that the netsh.exe tool -- used for network configuration -- management is the most frequently abused tool, appearing in a third of major attacks. While checking firewall configurations is a logical initial step for attackers, this clearly demonstrates how data analysis can spotlight trends that human operators might instinctively disregard.

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We reported a few weeks ago on the challenges businesses face in getting workers to adapt to new generative AI technology.

The latest report from digital experience specialist Nexthink, based on a survey of 220 public sector IT decision makers, shows that this is a particular problem in the public sector, with 96 percent of IT leaders believing this new era of digital transformation will increase digital friction.

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A new report reveals that nearly 80 percent of IT leaders say their organization has experienced negative outcomes from employee use of generative AI, including false or inaccurate results from queries (46 percent) and leaking of sensitive data into AI (44 percent).

Notably the survey of 200 US IT directors and executives from Komprise shows that 13 percent say that these poor outcomes have also resulted in financial, customer or reputational damage.

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Looking to compete with the likes of Signal, Elon Musk is ready to rollout XChat to all users of his X social platform. Rather than being a separate app for chatting, however, XChat is essentially just direct messaging within X -- so who is it for, and what does it have to offer?

Taking inspiration from numerous sources, Musk says that in addition to text-based messaging, there is also video and audio calling. Other features include vanishing messages, the option to “send any kind of file”, and an undetailed encryption system.

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There can be few Windows users who have not been frustrated by notifications suggesting that they use Microsoft Edge as their browser. Microsoft’s heavy-handed promotion of its own web browser has been the source of annoyance, frustration and lawsuits for some time.

Now the company is relenting, making sweeping changes across Windows 10 and Windows 11 that will stop some of the pestering to use Edge, and also make it easier to change default browsers. More than this, it is making changes to Windows Search, the Microsoft Store and many other apps... but not for everyone, and not because it wants to.

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A new report from Abnormal AI shows that employees in large enterprises engage with malicious vendor messages 72 percent of the time.

Drawing on behavioral data from over 1,400 organizations worldwide, the report reveals the extent to which employees are actively engaging with advanced text-based threats like vendor email compromise (VEC) and explores the blind spots attackers are exploiting with highly targeted, socially engineered attacks.

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