Did we learn nothing from Arthur C. Clarke’s 1968 sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey? In the film, astronauts on a mission to Jupiter discover that the HAL 9000 artificial intelligence computer that controls and automates all functions on the spacecraft starts seriously glitching. The astronauts get worried, HAL gets paranoid — yada, yada, yada […]
Keeping an app store free of malicious applications can be a hard task as we have discussed in our previous blogs. Fake or misleading applications, in particular, are often the hardest to spot because it is not always obvious whether they do what they claim to do.Our automated systems flagged an egregious example of a […]
Email and phone number phishing scams are almost as common on the Internet as pictures of pets wearing hats or videos of people doing ill-advised activities. Craigslist is an excellent place to stumble upon these scams because of its ease of anonymity. I discovered a masterfully done scam designed to gather information from those looking […]
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