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404 Media: “…Hide My Email is part of Apple’s paid iCloud+ product. It lets users generate an anonymous email address which they can then use to sign up to services or email people with instead of their personal email. These email addresses are often two random words and a number ending in the @icloud.com domain. …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
Via LLRX – Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know – AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to …
The Newsground: “Leaked Russian records obtained by The Newsground show that the founders of a technology company embedded in the White House’s official mobile application continued using sanctioned Russian banks after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, its founders continued to travel to Russia, even after one of them complained on Telegram that …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. “AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before…As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. (Malware, after …
Slashdot/TechCrunch: “TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not …
PCMag – Chatbots are not your friend, no matter what they say. Here’s how to get the information you need while also limiting the data ChatGPT collects from your conversations: “AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train …
Gizmodo: “If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, an app is about to be auto-loaded onto your work phone, sort of like that U2 album that auto-loaded on everyone’s iPhone in 2014, except instead of delivering “Songs of Innocence,” the app claims to deliver “unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source”—the source being …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
The Drey Dossier: “…Login.gov is open source, which means the government publishes its code in the open for anyone to read, so I read it, and I walked the recent changes, since every edit gets posted in public with a date stamped on it. Over the last couple of months somebody added a new piece …
404 Media no paywall: “A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific …
