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3/24/2025

For 2025, experts are sounding the alarm about AI and its effect on online security. The technology is supercharging the speed and sophistication of attacks—and in particular, it’s making scamming others using likenesses of both famous people and everyday citizens far, far easier. Worse, security groups say this trend will continue to accelerate. PC World

3/22/2025

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued a joint advisory warning that two-factor authentication needed to be activated for all webmail and VPN accounts as a matter of urgency. And, please don’t depend on SMS-based authentication. AI is able to catch those codes. Use a phone-based authenticator (like Google Authenticator).

3/21/2025

FBI Alert

Recently, the FBI has been publishing alerts for the general and industrial public regarding the increasingly dangerous AI situation. AI-Generated Audio, aka Vocal Cloning. Criminals can use AI-generated audio to impersonate well-known, public figures or personal relations to elicit payments.
Criminals generate short audio clips containing a loved one’s voice to impersonate a close relative in a crisis situation, asking for immediate financial assistance or demanding a ransom. In order to control your risk, the FBI is recommending the development of “code words” known only to you and your closest family members and/or friends. Anyone asking for “emergency help” and not able to provide the appropriate code word would unveil themselves. For those of you with phones able to “silence unknown callers” please turn that service on. Anyone who is not in your contacts will be silenced unless you’ve contacted them previously. Genuine unknown callers will leave a voice mail.

The FBI Denver Field Office is warning the public about this sneaky scam.

You receive a file and need to convert it for another format in order to access or edit it. You go online and find a website that will do that for free. Except there may be a huge price to pay. Your sensitive data.
You may just have fallen prey to the file converter scam, a crime so insidious that the FBI Denver Field Office is investigating cases, has issued an alert and is asking members of the public to report these incidents.

Update you password security

Start with a random short phrase as a password, like “I love the sun”, something you can remember.
Now, throw in some spaces between the words, then mix in a number or two, a seven maybe.
Mix in some symbols like a dollar sign and exclamation point.
Finally, capitalize a few of the words and viola, you’ve created a major firewall and upped your online security.