United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Your USB drive appears in Windows, but its folders are missing, replaced by shortcuts, or impossible to open. These symptoms can follow a malware infection, although file-system corruption can cause similar problems. To recover data from a pendrive after a virus attack, first determine whether the files are hidden, deleted, corrup...

A chatbot can deliver a wrong answer in a calm, confident manner. It can invent a drug dose, misstate a statute, or pin a prize on the wrong person, and the wording will still sound like knowledge. That is how these systems are built; the models behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar tools were trained to keep going. They pre...

How do you stop a bot that acts like a real user?

Ask a network security engineer what’s changed in the past three years and the answer is always the same. The bots got smarter, and there are a lot more of them.

Automated abuse used to be easy to sort into buckets. Scripted crawlers cycling through datacenter IP ranges...

When German police obtained WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal messages in recent investigations, it wasn’t because they were able to defeat the applications or their cryptography. Law enforcement officers used the official companion clients the companies ship for laptops, the same WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop sessions ordinary use...