Tagged “security”

One password for everything is one breach away from losing everything — seven ways reuse goes wrong, and the twenty-minute fix

When a shopping site leaks its user list, criminals feed those email-and-password pairs into automated tools that try them on Gmail…

23 Dec 2025

Your smart TV is a computer with a microphone that you never update — how it gets hacked, and the seven settings that matter

A smart TV stores your Netflix and YouTube logins, sometimes your payment details, and listens for voice commands. It runs an operating…

31 Oct 2025

A flaw in a Bluetooth chip inside Sony, Bose, JBL and Jabra headphones lets a nearby attacker listen through your phone’s microphone

German researchers found three vulnerabilities in the Airoha chip used in 29 audio devices from ten brands. Within Bluetooth range, an…

30 Jun 2025

Gmail is retiring the six-digit SMS code — a QR code you scan with your phone replaces it. Here is why, and what to set up now

Google says text-message codes have become a serious security risk and will phase them out of Gmail’s two-step verification over the coming…

26 Feb 2025