Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

A large-scale phishing campaign built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware, according to a threat intelligence firm and cybersecurity website The campaign currently underway uses more than 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate 27 brands to hoodwink web surfers to download malicious software to their computers an...

In five years, 40% of large organizations worldwide will be using a combination of Web3, AR cloud, and digital twins in metaverse projects aimed at increasing revenue, research and advisory firm Gartner predicted Monday at its IT symposium in Orlando, Fla Gartner's metaverse prediction was part of a top 10 list of strategic technology trends releas...

Sharing high-resolution media online can unintentionally expose sensitive biometric data, according to a report released Tuesday by a cybersecurity company That can be particularly dangerous, the 75-page report by Trend Micro noted, because people don't know that they're exposing the information....

Many operators of semi-automated motor vehicles drive as if their autos are fully automated, despite the crash risks of doing so, according to a study released Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) The study, based on a survey of 600 users of Cadillac's Super Cruise system, Nissan/Infiniti's ProPilot system, and Tesla's Autop...

Online sales in the U.S. should reach US$209.7 billion during this year's holiday season, an increase of 2.5% over 2021, according to a report released Monday by Adobe The report forecasts sales from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022, and is based on analytics gathered from more than one trillion visits to U.S. retail websites and 100 million SKUs in 18 prod...

Applying artificial intelligence to medical images can be beneficial to physicians and patients, but developing the tools to do it can be challenging. Google on Tuesday announced it's ready to meet that challenge with its new Medical Imaging Suite "Google pioneered the use of AI and computer vision in Google Photos, Google Image Search and Google L...

Hijacking of social media accounts has reached epidemic proportions in the last 12 months, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center The non-profit, which provides assistance to the victims of identity theft, revealed in its 2022 Consumer Impact Report that social media takeovers have increased by 1,000% during the period....

A company that uses artificial intelligence to detect firearms in active shooting settings has been awarded a US$1.25 million grant by the U.S. Air Force to integrate the technology into existing unmanned aerial vehicles This is the third R&D grant the Air Force has awarded ZeroEyes, whose main line of business is protecting schools with its gun de...

For years companies have been allowing their workers to mix business and pleasure on their mobile devices, a move that's increased anxiety among cybersecurity professionals. Now a network security outfit says it has a way to secure personal mobile devices that might allow cyber warriors to sleep less fitfully Cloudflare on Monday announced its Zero...

PCs and TVs received high marks from consumers in a report released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index The ACSI Household Appliance and Electronics Study for 2021-2022, based on interviews with more than 9,000 consumers, rates a range of products on a scale of zero to 100....

A new service powered by artificial intelligence that can turn portraits into talking heads was announced Monday by D-ID Called Creative Reality Studio, the self-service application can turn the image of a face into a video, complete with speech....

A new search engine powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing is offering an alternative to the lists of web pages making up the results of a typical online search Called Andi, the search engine combines the use of large language models -- think OpenAi's GPY-3 -- and live web data to craft an answer to questions posed by se...

Apple refreshed its iPhone, Watch, and AirPods product lines at an online event Wednesday, as well as introducing a new Ultra watch for activity in challenging environments The Apple Watch Ultra is designed to operate in extreme cold and hot environments, as well as under 130 feet of water. It's housed in a rugged titanium case, and its face is mad...

A new phishing-as-a-service offering on the dark web poses a threat to online accounts protected by multi-factor authentication, according to a blog posted Monday by an endpoint security company Called EvilProxy, the service allows threat actors to launch phishing campaigns with the ability to bypass MFA at scale without the need to hack upstream s...

The penchant for tech whistleblowers to quit their jobs with a bang while many of their colleagues engage in "quiet quitting" should be a wake-up call to industry leaders, according to a blog penned by four Forrester analysts A scorching employment market for security, risk and privacy professionals combined with the recruiting of values-based empl...

A Chinese cyber espionage group has been using a fake news site to infect government and energy industry targets in Australia, Malaysia and Europe with malware, according to a blog posted online Tuesday by Proofpoint and PwC Threat Intelligence The group is known by several names, including APT40, Leviathan, TA423 and Red Ladon. Four of its members...

The cloud gaming market appears to be ready for some substantial growth, although it will be tough sledding for new players to enter the scene In her newsletter published Tuesday, consumer technology guru Elizabeth Parks maintained that the cloud gaming market is at an inflection point as heavyweights in the industry continue to ramp up their invol...

Having trouble understanding that person at the end of the support line you've called to get some customer service? A Silicon Valley company wants to make those kinds of problems a thing of the past The company, Sanas, makes software that uses artificial intelligence to remove the accents in the speech of non-native, or even native, English speaker...

The next generation web -- Web3 -- has been hailed as more secure than the current incarnation of cyberspace, but a report released Tuesday warns that may not be so While Web3 may be difficult to subvert on an infrastructure level, there are other points of attack that may offer threat actors more opportunity for mischief than can be found in the l...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), best known for creating the internet, advanced its plan to revolutionize communication among low orbiting satellite networks by selecting 11 teams to work on its Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program Known as Space-BACN, the project seeks to create a low-cost, reconfigurable opt...