Category «Cybercrime»

Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack

TechDirt: “Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

CollectiveMetrics.org

CollectiveMetrics.org – We are dedicated to illuminating the complex digital landscape that shapes our daily lives through open-source metrics and measurement systems focused on online trust, privacy, and security. Explore our work; Read our new deepfake/scam research Transparency Powers Progress – We are dedicated to illuminating the complex digital landscape that shapes our daily lives …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated ‘Research’ Papers

404 Media – “arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science review articles and position papers. Why? A tide of AI slop has flooded the computer science category with low-effort papers that are “little more than annotated bibliographies, with …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, Digital Rights, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 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 …

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

ChatGPT Atlas: The Trojan Horse on Your Desktop

The Augmented Educator: Security, Privacy, and Academic Integrity in the Age of Agentic Web Browsers – “A few days ago, OpenAI released Atlas, an agentic web browser that embeds ChatGPT directly into the browsing experience. Atlas is not the first browser of its kind. Perplexity’s Comet and several other experimental systems preceded it. What distinguishes Atlas …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 25, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 25, 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, Copyright, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

Who’s on your Wi-Fi?

PCWorld: “Here’s how to see every device on your home network. The best way to see which devices are connected to your Wi-Fi (and find out their IP and MAC addresses) is to use the open-source tool Angry IP Scanner. It’s lightweight, runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and doesn’t even need to be installed. …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

Check This Database to See If Your Email Credentials Have Been Leaked

Lifehacker: “Breaches are an unfortunate reality of the digital era. Chances are, some of the companies you trust your data to are going to get hacked, and sensitive information stored on those servers is going to leak. If you’ve been online for a long time, that means quite a bit of your data is floating …

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