Cybersecurity & Scams
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Dozens of online retailers are using AI to pose as small businesses and charge more for lower quality products
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mwilliamsFunny how Brittany from Vermont hand-pours candles out of a Shenzhen warehouse.
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The FTC says Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, with Facebook causing the most losses
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brandoncox20Aunt Carol got scammed twice this year, but she's still convinced the third Nigerian prince is the real one.
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A dental practice software company has patched a bug that was exposing patients' medical records.
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inkbloomGold is at record highs so hacking a dental database for a list of people with gold teeth is just the tooth fairy's side hustle now.
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Canvas Got Hacked During Finals Week and Students Are Freaking Out
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ash619The hacker's inbox is now ninety percent Venmo bribes and ten percent crying.
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A new Utah age verification law bans websites from discussing VPNs, raising First Amendment and privacy concerns
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crimsonghost336Every teenager in Utah just learned what a VPN is specifically because of this law, so great job.👏🏼👏🏼
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April set a record for crypto hacks, with $651 million stolen, mostly linked to North Korea
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nicole1976At this point crypto bros are basically just running a foreign aid program for Pyongyang.
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charliedavis73Wall Street is still asking what crypto is for, meanwhile Pyongyang is cashing checks.
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Adobe fixed a PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have been exploiting for months.
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jenadams4Adobe patching PDF vulnerabilities is the closest thing we have to a perpetual motion machine.
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A New Jersey man was caught helping North Korean IT workers steal American identities to land remote tech jobs
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pixel091The fact that every single one of them listed their hometown as Pyongyang, New Jersey should have been the first clue.
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masonsanders48By the time the feds knocked on the company's door, the North Korean had already been replaced by AI.
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A retired sportswriter says he lost his entire $270,000 life savings to an online scam featuring a young, gorgeous woman.
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miles.alexanderI honestly can't decide what's worse, losing 270 grand to a fake woman online, or being one of the athletes he used to write about who lost millions to a real woman.
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My bank account was already empty from buying the phone, so honestly this feels like the scammer's problem now.