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1980s Computer Frustration The tech your email runs on was built in the 1980s. It has never once checked who's really sending. Here's why that should worry you. Here's something most business owners don't know: the technology your email runs on was designed in the 1980s — and it never checks who's really sending. Anyone. That's right, anyone can put your email address in the "from" line of a message. That's domain spoofing — a criminal sending email that appears to come from your company, to...

Parents, schools, and every small business owner with a public Instagram — five minutes today. This week Meta rolled out a new AI image tool (Muse Image) built into Instagram. Here's the part that matters: if your account is public, you're automatically opted in to letting other people generate AI images using your photos. Someone just tags your username in a prompt, and Meta AI builds an image from your public pictures. You won't be notified when it happens. if your account is public,...

Ironjaw Cybersecurity · Digital Safety · Opinion Credit: Danny Bradburn & Malwarebytes — for pulling this into the light. Deep-fakes and sextortion aren't coming. They're already here — and your children's faces are the raw material. sextortion - child holding phone covering face I'm going to say something I mean with every fiber of my being: if this doesn't make your stomach turn, if it doesn't make you want to throw your phone across the room — I genuinely don't know what's left for you....