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ZDNet: Spyware can secretly track, record, and steal data from your phone. Watch for strange behavior, data spikes, or unknown apps as signs. Use antivirus tools, update often, and avoid untrusted app sources. Spyware is a threat to your personal security and privacy that you may not know is on your smartphone. But what is …
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 …
PC World – “How to see if you’re affected. Have I Been Pwned just acquired a huge collection of unique email addresses and passwords that have been leaked and/or stolen. Security expert Troy Hunt, who operates Have I Been Pwned, recently received 2 billion unique email addresses that were found across multiple malicious lists and …
Personal Security Checklist: Your guide to securing your digital life and protecting your privacy…Includes 255 items to check, with detailed instructions.
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Proton VPN: “Discord is a wildly popular text, voice, and video chat platform used by over 153 million people each month. But is it safe? This is a question that may particularly concern parents(new window), thanks to it being the social media platform of choice for gamers, a demographic that tends to skew younger, and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
