Category «Cybercrime»

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything

The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 – 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 …

Subjects: Congress, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Privacy, Social Media, Transportation

Crumbling Under Pressure: PropensityBench Reveals AI’s Weaknesses

Scale.com: “AI models are now being used in more high-stakes settings, and not every situation goes according to plan. When a model’s safe approach starts to fail, will it stay on the safe path or reach for a harmful shortcut that works instead? Understanding how models behave in those pressure moments is one of the …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – 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 …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

I won’t use Chrome without these security and privacy extensions anymore

MakeUseOf: “Chrome is fast, capable, and one of the best browser options when convenience matters. However, it’s not the most privacy-focused browser, and relying on Chrome alone isn’t enough for online privacy. So, I started using some extensions as part of my Chrome privacy setup. Each one addresses a different privacy concern, ensuring I stay …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector

MakeUseOf – This Cloudflare outage has forced half the internet offline Bloomberg [no paywall] – Why Today’s Internet Is So Fragile – For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

4 changes I made immediately after 1.3 billion passwords were stolen

PCWorld: “Earlier this month, security guru Troy Hunt added a staggering two billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion unique passwords to his Have I Been Pwned and Pwned Passwords databases. Aggregated by Synthient, the data comes from multiple credential stuffing sources shared by threat actors, as well as data stolen directly from individuals through …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 15, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 15, 202 – 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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, ID Theft, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 8, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 8, 2025 – 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 …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines