Category «Cybersecurity»

Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

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. …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Internet

Redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears

The Guardian: “The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal website. An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 2026

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 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Government, Internet, Privacy

Report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

The Guardian: “A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the US government’s immigration surveillance arsenal, revealing fresh details about how spending on technology and AI tools to find and track migrants has soared to record levels during Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week, analyzed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know

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 …

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

Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones

Wired no paywall: “In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), …

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

White House App Uses Code From Tech Vendor Still Operating in Russia

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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Social Media

Assume You Will Be Hacked

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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

US Government’s Anthropic Models Ban Was Never About an AI Jailbreak

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 …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ChatGPT Knows Too Much: 8 Ways to Lock Down Your Privacy

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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026

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 …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026

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 …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy