As reported in Security Now! Edition 1019 https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1019-notes.pdf, a new Mailchimp phishing email has been seen, with the heading of ‘Sending Privileges Restricted’. Please watch out for this, as the process of stealing your MailChimp audience data seems to be automated if you mistakenly provide your credentials. It’s worth reading Steve Gibsons full report in […]
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Top 2 Gen AI tips
In a couple of recent conversations about generative AI, people have asked us for our top 2 tips, so we thought we would share them here: These two tips will help you stay safe from the pitfalls we often see, and yet be flexible enough to help you use Gen AI to deliver more impact. […]
Warning over free online file converters
It’s tempting to use ‘free’ online services for those infrequent requirements, such as converting a file between rarely used formats. But a warning comes, this time from the FBI, of an increasing number of websites that include malware in the converted files as a backdoor for the bad guys. Malwarebytes Labs has a good account […]
AI whether you want it or not
We have seen two instances this week when applications have added AI whether it is necessary or not, and without the ability to remove it (yes I know we can just not use it, but it’s not quite the same thing). WhatsApp users may have noticed that the search bar now says ‘Ask Meta AI […]
New digital fundraising badge
The Fundraising Regulator has launched a new digital fundraising badge. It is a code snippet that displays your current year of registration and with one click users are taken to your charity’s page on their directory. Presumably, one of the benefits for the Regulator is that it will show when your registration has not been […]