Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.    Have you or someone you know been a victim of a cyber scam.    For far too many of us…the answer is yes.    There are ways to make that less likely.   Google Security Expert Kimberly Samra says AI tools have made it easier for the bad guys..

“Automating phishing emails, those are those emails urging you to send money or respond, send personal information.  And those are automating now making it a lot harder for everyday people, I know my parents, for example, are constantly asking me, how can you differentiate, how can you tell, if something is legitimate or not.  But luckily Google does protect billions of people each day with automatic protection.  We’ve been using AI for years for things like Gmail and Chrome to make sure that you never even have to get in contact with those scammers and we stop that spam right away.”

And about passwords…the safer thing is to use Passkeys instead.

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