Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first time in 2024. AI models, automated crawlers, good bots, and especially bad bots have…
Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material. If you’ve been reading Bruceb News for a while, then you know that occasionally I’m compelled to tell you scary bedtime stories about why you don’t have any privacy and how everyone knows where you are all the time. This is the creepiest one…
[Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material.] Google and the FBI took down “Badbox 2.0” last month – ten million compromised TV streaming boxes being used by criminals. Malware on the devices connected them into a botnet for all kinds of badness: to conduct attacks on business…
I’ve got a scary story about technology for you. Nope, not the Crowdstrike meltdown. Here’s one you might have missed. China has hacked into our power grid. The NSA, FBI, and CISA (“Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency”) went public a year ago with details about Volt Typhoon, a Chinese effort to plant malware in power grids,…