The cybersecurity community talks extensively about data breaches, malware, and system vulnerabilities. We spend countless hours protecting digital assets and user privacy. Yet something far more subtle is happening right under our noses, and it deserves our attention: the growing psychological dependency on AI chatbots and its implications for human wellbeing. Recent research from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI reveals troubling patterns among heavy chatbot users. Heavy use of ChatGPT was correlated with increased loneliness, emotional dependence, and reduced social interaction, particularly among the top 10 percent of users by time spent. While correlation does not equal causation, these findings echo patterns we have seen before with...

Most security incidents trigger the same sequence: discovery, investigation, and then something more primal. The desire to strike back. It could be a data breach, a successful phishing campaign, or a ransomware attack. The emotional aftermath often overshadows the technical response. Teams want to trace the attackers, expose their methods, make them pay for the disruption they have caused. This reaction feels natural, even righteous. After all, cybercriminals are causing real harm to organizations, individuals, and entire economies. The urge to retaliate stems from a fundamental sense of justice. Yet philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues in her examination of human emotion that anger, while deeply human, becomes a...

A cryptic image posted on John McAfee's Instagram moments after he was reported dead sparked speculation from QAnon conspiracy theorists that the antivirus software entrepreneur had activated a so-called "dead man's switch" to expose the government. John McAfee, 75, was found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite [...]

A newly revealed flaw in the Android operating system could allow wrongdoers to steal private information from your device. Both the malware and the...