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Security Week: “Like an inverted pyramid, the range of different attack modes are now built on top of the single point of identity abuse. Stolen credentials are a major threat. Legitimate credentials illegitimately acquired provide legitimate access to illegitimate actors. Once inside the network, these bad actors have greater ability to move and act in …
The EU treats big tech platforms like public infrastructure. If your platform is big enough that people and businesses have no real alternative, you play by public rules. And that’s a great way of seeing it. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. Over 1.2 billion people and hundreds of millions of businesses depend on …
Fast Company: “For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance. In thousands of towns and cities across the U.S., automatic license plate readers have been installed at major intersections, bridges and highway off-ramps. These camera-based systems capture the …
ZDNET – “This free privacy tool gave me answers. Data is gold, and some companies go to great lengths to collect it, store it, and sell it. But you can put an end to it. [Note – sort of] There’s a service called Global Privacy Control that offers extensions and/or links to browsers and apps …
MakeUseOf: “I treat Bluetooth like a light switch. I turn it off when I don’t need it, and assume it’s gone. You did too, right? Turns out, we’re wrong. When you’re not actively connected to anything, your phone is still talking, constantly, to anyone nearby set up to listen. Your Bluetooth signal isn’t really turned …
IEEE Spectrum – “Facial recognition technology (FRT) dates back 60 years. Just over a decade ago, deep-learning methods tipped the technology into more and menacing—territory. Now, retailers, your neighbors, and law enforcement are all storing your face and building up a fragmentary photo album of your life. Yet the story those photos can tell inevitably …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 28, 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 …
The Verge [no paywall] – “Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you. The new feature can be used to automatically open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools ‘with no setup required,’ even when you’re away from your …
404 Media no paywall: “WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out …
A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can’t believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web. If you find these tools useful, I’m glad. You don’t owe me anything. But if you’re an artist, feel free to email me your work. …
Lifehacker: “When you hit the share button on social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook, or Threads, these sites tack on a tracker to the link you’re sharing. This tracker means that Instagram can tell who you’ve shared the link with, and it likely uses this information to further optimize its algorithm for ads. While …
IEEE Spectrum “Every time you unlock your smartphone or start your connected car, you are generating a trail of digital evidence that can be used to track your every move. In Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, just published by NYU Press, law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson exposes …
