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Criminals target APIs as web attacks skyrocket globally
The number of web attacks around the world is surging, with APIs emerging as the primary target. In total, there were 311 billion web attacks in 2024, up 33% on the year before. Europe, the Middle East and Africa accounted for 62 billion of these attacks – up 16% year-on-year. More than 230 billion web attacks targeted commerce organizations, making…
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How to encrypt email in Outlook for Windows 11 and web
On Windows 11, if you use the desktop app or the web version of Outlook, you can use encryption to add an extra layer of security to the emails you send to other people to protect your sensitive messages and files. In this guide, I’ll show you how to complete this task. Although emails you send using your “Outlook.com” address…
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‘Phishing kits are a force multiplier’: Cheap cyber crime kits can be bought on the dark web for less than $25 – and experts warn it’s lowering the barrier of entry for amateur hackers
While inflation is rising around the world, some things are getting cheaper – and one is the cost of launching a phishing attack. Phishing kits are now widely available on the dark web and via messaging apps like Telegram, and are often selling for less than $25. This means that even criminals with minimal tech skills can easily steal personal…
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Everest ransomware’s dark web leak site defaced, now offline
The dark web leak site of the Everest ransomware gang has apparently been hacked over the weekend by an unknown attacker and is now offline. The unknown attacker replaced the website’s contents with the following sarcastic message: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague.” The Everest operation has since taken down its leak site, which no longer loads…
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8 New features rolling out for Microsoft Copilot in 2025 on Windows 11, mobile, web
Microsoft is in the process of adding several new capabilities to Copilot in a continued effort to make it more competitive with other chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. In this wave of updates, the company is announcing at least eight new features to improve Copilot’s intelligence and make it more useful in your daily life on Windows…
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WinRAR flaw bypasses Windows Mark of the Web security alerts
A vulnerability in the WinRAR file archiver solution could be exploited to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security warning and execute arbitrary code on a Windows machine. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-31334 and affects all WinRAR versions except the most recent release, which is currently 7.11. Mark of the Web is a security function in Windows…
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Microsoft Copilot Gets “Actions” to Automate Tasks on the Web
On Microsoft‘s 50th anniversary, the company has a bunch of new plans for its AI-powered future in store for us. They have announced a new feature for Microsoft Copilot called “Actions”. This new addition will scour the web for you based on your prompt, and all of it will happen in the background as you focus on other important things.…
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6 Best Free Web Hosting: Top Providers for 2025
Free web hosting offers a cost-effective entry point for launching small projects, blogs, or experimental websites without upfront costs. While these platforms offer beginners or low-traffic sites an ideal starting point, they often come with trade-offs like limited storage, bandwidth limitations, or advertisements. Choosing the right free web hosting platform allows you to experiment with a website without the financial…
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Security experts issue warning over the rise of ‘gray bot’ AI web scrapers
Security firm Barracuda has called for organizations to factor AI bots that scrape data from public websites into their security strategies, labelling them not as good or bad bots, but “gray bots”. Defining these three categories of bot, senior principal software engineer for application security engineering at Barracuda Rahul Gupta said: “There are good bots – such as search engine…
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Web Scraping for AI and Machine Learning Training
The success of machine learning and AI models heavily depends on the quality and quantity of data used for training. The internet has become one of the richest sources of information, including structured and unstructured data. However, manually collecting and organizing this data is impractical. This is where web scraping is needed. Web scraping is an automated method of extracting…
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