cybersecurity

DeFi's Achilles Heel 7 Ways AI Agents Expose Your Wallet

DeFi's Achilles Heel 7 Ways AI Agents Expose Your Wallet

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Imagine this: Sarah, a recently widowed teacher, finally decides to dabble in DeFi after hearing about the amazing yields. She creates an AI agent that can automatically stake for her, so she can earn some passive income on top of her usual earnings. A week later, poof, all her retirement...

MoneyLion + Gen Digital: Your Finances Just Got a Security Upgrade

MoneyLion + Gen Digital: Your Finances Just Got a Security Upgrade

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Today’s financial landscape is radically different than decades past and staying ahead takes more than a fiduciary investment strategy. It demands robust security measures. Recent moves like Gen Digital’s announced acquisition of MoneyLion are a testament to this progress and a major catalyst in that direction. Together, this partnership will...

5 Biometric Myths Fueling AI Fraud's Rise (and How to Fight Back)

5 Biometric Myths Fueling AI Fraud's Rise (and How to Fight Back)

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We’re in the digital Wild West, friends. We know that AI is growing at warp speed and with it comes fantastic innovative opportunities. It’s supercharging fraud in ways we could never have imagined. One of the supposed silver bullets? Biometrics. Here's the uncomfortable truth: our reliance on biometrics is built...

7 Ways Cloud Identity Protects You From The Coming Cyber War

7 Ways Cloud Identity Protects You From The Coming Cyber War

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The digital battlefield is here. Even if you don’t witness any tanks rolling down your street, you’ll surely know a cyber war is in full swing. Sadly, your data, privacy, and financial security are all on the front lines of this battle. Think of it like this: remember those old...

IRS Scams 2025: The Tech Vulnerabilities You're Ignoring

IRS Scams 2025: The Tech Vulnerabilities You're Ignoring

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Yet, the IRS continues to warn us about these ongoing scams. Great. Here’s another press release warning us to watch out. Come on, are their “Dirty Dozen” tips really doing the trick in 2025 or doing anything at all? They're talking about protecting your EIN like it's your Social Security...

IRS Scams 2025: Shield Your Business & Identity Now!

IRS Scams 2025: Shield Your Business & Identity Now!

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reported that tax scams are on the rise. These scams have now honed in on small business owners. Tax filing season is a time when scammers especially increase their efforts. These fraudsters don’t cease there, they’re at all times developing new methods to steal...

Forget Passwords, Embrace the Algorithm AI Democratizing Security

Forget Passwords, Embrace the Algorithm AI Democratizing Security

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The AAA password era is coming to an end, and good riddance. Face it, how many different flavors of “Password123!” have you gone through. Passwords period, passwords are a joke. Yet we all go along with this security theater, knowing well that they’re letting us down. They’re horrible, counterintuitive and...

AI vs. Passwords: Will Artificial Intelligence Kill Off Passwords?

AI vs. Passwords: Will Artificial Intelligence Kill Off Passwords?

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The digital landscape is an ever-changing world, and so too are the ways we can arm ourselves to safeguard our online identities. For decades, passwords have been the bedrock of online security, but they’re growing more laborious and insecure by the minute. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), which is set to...

84% Hacked Via SMS OTP? The Shocking Truth Big Tech Won't Tell You

84% Hacked Via SMS OTP? The Shocking Truth Big Tech Won't Tell You

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Remember the old Irish tales of changelings? Faerie changelings and exchanging a healthy babe for a weakly one, abandoning families unwittingly rearing a changeling of the cryptids. We scoff, call it superstition. What if I were to tell you that the same transformational experience is happening today—in your bank account,...

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NFTs Explained: Beyond the Hype, What Are They Really Good For?

NFTs, aka non-fungible tokens, have been taking the world by storm. Most people associate NFTs with expensive digital art and collectibles. These digital assets hold the potential to transform the economy and every sector on it. Calloutcoin.com explores the exciting and sometimes bizarre world of NFTs. We help separate fact...

NFTs Explained: Beyond the Hype, What Are They Really Good For?

NFTs Under the Hood: Are These Smart Contracts Really That Smart?

Let's be blunt: the NFT gold rush feels like a distant memory. We witnessed the speculative mania, the million-dollar profile picture NFTs, and the quaint talk of a new decentralized world. Now that the dust has settled, it's time to pull back the curtain and ask a crucial question: are...

NFTs Under the Hood: Are These Smart Contracts Really That Smart?

DePINs' Achilles Heel? How Blockchain Authentication Can Save Infrastructure

Now, picture having that happen, as you awaken, with no electricity. Not in a brief temporary outage, but in a long-extended blackout paralyzing hospitals, blocking transportation, and predisposing communities to disasters. This is not some dystopian fantasy, it’s a present danger. Our increasing dependence on decentralized, physical infrastructure networks, or...

DePINs' Achilles Heel? How Blockchain Authentication Can Save Infrastructure

DePIN Authentication: The 3 Smart Contract Secrets That Unlock Scalability

The dirty little secret about DePINs though? They’re sitting ducks. All that new decentralized infrastructure, humming away, is ripe for attack as anyone can spoof an admin account and cause chaos. We’re not talking about just theoretical doomsday scenarios – but real-world consequences like compromised energy grids, hijacked sensor networks...

DePIN Authentication: The 3 Smart Contract Secrets That Unlock Scalability

DePIN Security Revolution: Blockchain & Traceable Authentication

Hello blockchain and crypto enthusiasts! Jason back again, bringing you even more dank insights from Calloutcoin.com. Today, we're diving deep into a critical area for the future of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs): security. As DePINs expand to maintain more real-world infrastructure, making sure their networks are cyber threats robust...

DePIN Security Revolution: Blockchain & Traceable Authentication

News NFTs? How This Facebook Group is Revolutionizing Local News

For any online journalism venture in the fast-paced digital media environment, sustainability lies in creative thinking. One unexpected player is stepping into the ring with a novel approach: a Facebook group is using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to publish its articles. This step is more than just a creative publicity stunt....

News NFTs? How This Facebook Group is Revolutionizing Local News

NFT News: Genius or Gimmick? A Tech Deep Dive into the Facebook Group

I know, I know—what could possibly be more interesting than this “What’s Going on Quad Cities” Facebook group turned NFT news hub. 106,000 dogmatic, astroturfed followers strong, it certainly outstrips the reach of the local fish wrap. For all traditional media entities, that’s a gut punch and a warning shot....

NFT News: Genius or Gimmick? A Tech Deep Dive into the Facebook Group