Category «Cybersecurity»

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

Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

404 Media: “A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group did …

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 18, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 18, 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: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

Ars Technica: “Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use …

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

Over 50% of New Online Articles Are Being Cranked Out by AI

Vice: “About a year ago, AI began outpacing human writers on the internet. For every one article written by a real-life, blood-bag of a meat puppet, slightly more than one was written by a machine. Don’t get all twisted up about “slightly more than one” article; it’s fractions, my friends. The news was broken when …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft

AI in Finance an Banking October 15, 2025

AI in Finance an Banking October 15, 2025 – 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 provided are to …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 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, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

LLRX September 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health, Part 3 – This is a follow up to two recent articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, free speech, and the censorship of federally funded …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Environmental Law, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy