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The whole country is watching the Nancy Guthrie case. When the suspected kidnapping happened, I was curious. How long would it take me to find her home address and cell phone number on a people search site?About 30 seconds.STOP FOREIGN-OWNED APPS FROM HARVESTING YOUR PERSONAL DATAI then pasted her address into Zillow and saw photos of her home. I could match what I found to the video from a home […]

If you use an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Apple TV, listen up. Apple has released a major security update to fix a zero-day vulnerability, which is a security hole that hackers discover and exploit before the company has a chance to fix it. Attackers were already using it in targeted attacks. In other words, this was not just a possibility. It was happening.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20700, affects multiple […]

If you read newsletters to stay informed, here is an update worth paying attention to. Substack, a popular platform where writers, journalists and creators send email updates directly to subscribers, has confirmed a data breach that exposed user data.The company says the exposed information includes email addresses, phone numbers and internal account metadata. More sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card numbers and financial information, was not affected. That is […]

When you hear the word robotics, you probably think of factory machines or humanoid robots sprinting across a test track. That image makes sense. For years, robotics lived in labs and industrial spaces. But a quieter shift is happening much closer to home. It is happening around your ankles, knees and hips. Wearable robotics are moving out of research labs and into everyday life. From powered shoes to lightweight exoskeletons, this […]

Fake browser extensions are nothing new, but this one takes things a step further by deliberately breaking your computer to scare you into infecting it.Security researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome and Edge extension called NexShield that pretends to be a fast, privacy-friendly ad blocker. Once installed, it crashes your browser on purpose and then tricks you into "fixing" the problem by running dangerous commands on your own PC.Sign up […]

It started with a voicemail from a Hertz rental car location in Miami, Florida. A 57-year-old woman in Los Alamitos, California, was asked when she planned to return a Mercedes-Benz she had never rented. A thief had stolen her driver's license, replaced the photo with their own and used it to rent the vehicle. The same identity was used to open a credit card account, book airline tickets and reserve […]

Scrolling used to be relaxing. Now it often feels chaotic. That is not a coincidence. Nearly everything you see on social media is controlled by algorithms that track what you like, watch, click and ignore. Over time, those signals get muddy. One curiosity click can reshape your feed for weeks. The solution is not deleting your accounts. It is retraining the system.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Get my best […]

If you use an Android phone, this deserves your attention. Cybersecurity researchers warn that hackers are using Hugging Face, a popular platform for sharing artificial intelligence (AI) tools, to spread dangerous Android malware. At first, the threat appears harmless because it is disguised as a fake antivirus app. Then, once you install it, criminals gain direct access to your device. Because of this, the threat stands out as especially troubling. It combines […]

China just sent a clear signal about where it believes air travel is headed next. A Shanghai-based aviation company called AutoFlight has unveiled Matrix, now recognized as the world's largest flying car. This is not a concept image or a brief hover test. Matrix has already completed successful flight tests near Shanghai, bringing real size and real ambition to an industry still dominated by small prototypes.The launch also highlights China's […]