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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 17, 2025

Five highlights from this week: License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows; Senators want #TSA to scale back facial recognition at airports; How #Signal #whatsapp Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat #backups #Deepfakes #scams and the Age of Paranoia; Does One Line Fix Google?

Posted in: #civilliberties Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, #Spyware

https://www.llrx.com/2025/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-17-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Using AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right; How to Make Your #iPhone as Secure as Possible; After $243M Crypto Heist, a Crucial Mistake; Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants; and AI is getting “creepy good” at geo-guessing.

Posted in: #AI #civilliberties #Cryptocurrency Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-10-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 3, 2025

Five highlights from this week: US State #Privacy Legislation Tracker; Social Security Administration #SSA Introduces Secure Digital Access to Social Security Numbers; I Scammed My Bank With Just an AI Voice Generator and a Phone Call; European regulators fined #TikTok $600 million - social media giant unlawfully transferred users' personal data from the #EU to China; and Internet crimes increased 33 percent in 2024.

Posted in: #AI Courts & Technology, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2025/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-3-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 26, 2025

Four highlights from this week: How to prevent your streaming device from tracking your viewing habits (and why it makes a difference); Your private health data may have fueled Google's ads; Businesses Failing to Prevent Cyber Attacks, Says Report; and How to block #MetaAI from using your Instagram or Facebook posts for training.

Posted in: Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, #Health, Healthcare, #Privacy Search Engines, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-26-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 19, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Text Message Scams Cost Consumers $470 Million in 2024, #FTC Reports; Trump is shifting cybersecurity to the states, but many aren’t prepared; Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to 'Immediately' Self-Deport; #OpenAI Tightens Access As Evidence Mounts of AI Model Mimicry; and #ICE Just Paid #Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’.

Posted in: #AI Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email, Financial System, Legal Research, #Privacy Search Engines

https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-19-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 12, 2025

Five highlights from this week: #Biometrics vs. passcodes: What lawyers recommend if you're worried about warrantless phone searches; #DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, #NETSCOUT Warns; Google Maps doubles down on preventing fake reviews; Large number of US adults view AI as a threat: Report; and Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities (#NHI) Creating Massive Security Blind Spots.

Posted in: #AI Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-12-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 5, 2025

Five highlights from this week: What to Know About Trump’s Order to Phase Out Paper Checks; #Apple faces $5 billion class action lawsuit over #eBooks purchases; Why Encryption Matters for Your Data Backups (And How to Do It Easily); Texas’ AI-Powered #Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails; and How to recognize and prevent #Deepfakes scams.

Posted in: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-5-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Google Confirms #Gmail Upgrade - 3 Billion Users Must Now Decide; What is Signal, the app where Trump officials texted war plans?; Even More #Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in #Signal Group Chat Left Data Public; #NIST releases finalized guidelines on protecting #AI from attacks; #Canada

Posted in: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #encryption #Privacy Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Media, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-29-2025/

p.s. If a post is inexplicably in your timeline and it isn't a followed hashtag or a boost, please check the post's profile to see if you are following it.

The way account search results are presented on Mastodon means it's very easy to accidentally click on "follow" while just scrolling the results. There is no confirmation message for this, it just quietly adds it to your follows.

You may be following accounts that you don't remember following because it happened by accident while scrolling.

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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration; Everything You Say To Your Fire TV & Echo Will Be Sent to Amazon Soon; The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe; Judge Rips #DOGE Dig Into Social Security Records; and Big #AI platforms can generate Chrome malware with this technique.

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #Privacy Search Engines

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-22-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 15, 2025

Four highlights from this week: The 200+ Sites an #ICE #Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring; US cities warn of wave of unpaid parking phishing texts; #OPM watchdog to investigate IT risks tied to #DOGE 's agency access; and A Brand-New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size #DDoS Attacks.

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-15-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 8, 2025

Four highlights from this week: 89% of enterprise #AI usage is invisible to the organization; The Digital Packrat Manifesto; and lock Threatens Open Source Developer Mapping Its #Surveillance

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #ecommerce #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-8-2025/

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

Five highlights from this week: Trump has purged government websites; The #WaybackMachine is trying to preserve the record; Turn off your read receipts. They’re a security risk; You can now easily remove personal info from Google Search results; Google plans to end SMS verification in favor of #qrcodes and Verizon isn't doing enough to protect customers from robocall scams.

Posted in: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, #encryption #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-1-2025/

At least 21 employees of the U.S. Digital Service, which was renamed DOGE last month, resigned their positions yesterday in a letter to Trump's chief of staff.

"On Jan. 21st, we completed 15-minute interviews with individuals wearing White House visitor badges. Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability. This process created significant security risks."

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services. We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions."

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25544180/usds-resignation-letter.pdf

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 22, 2025

Five highlights from this week: #Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public; How Phished Data Turns into #Apple & Google Wallets; Identity is the Breaking Point—Get It Right or Zero Trust Fails; Chase Says Making Payments Over Social Media Is Too Messy, Will Block #Zelle Transactions; and #FTC Launches Inquiry into Big Tech #Censorship Practices.

Posted in: #AI, Communications, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, #encryption Financial System, Legal Research

https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-22-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 15, 2025

Five highlights from this week: How to Clear Your Personal Data From a Car; Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook; Pairwise Authentication of Humans; Attacks on password managers increased drastically in 2024; and Judge blocks Musk's #DOGE from accessing Treasury materials.

Posted in: #ai #copyright Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #encryption Legal Research, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-15-2025/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications; Why rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click hackers; #EFF - Basics | #Surveillance Self-Defense; Even the US government can fall victim to #cryptojacking; and Federal immigration officials have extensive technology at their disposal.

Posted in: Communications, #Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/pete-recommendspete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-8-2025/

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What Is OpenAI’s Powerful New Deep Research Tool Capable Of?

LawSites: I Use It to Analyze the Legality of President Trump’s Pause of Federal Grants – “Over the weekend, OpenAI released Deep Research, an AI agent capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil said it can complete complex research tasks in minutes that might take a person many hours or days, according to The New York Times, adding that it should be particularly useful for people in fields such as finance, science and law. Curious to see what it can do, I have been running it through several research tasks today. In search of a meaty legal issue, I decided to ask it to research and analyze the legality of the Trump administration’s temporary pause of federal grant and financial assistance programs, and then to outline the potential legal remedies available to recipients of those grants and financial assistance. In 10 minutes, it produced the following memorandum, which consumes 9,000 words and 17 single-spaced pages in a Word document, and which covers in some detail:

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https://www.bespacific.com/what-is-openais-powerful-new-deep-research-tool-capable-of/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2024

Five highlights from this week: #UnitedHealth now says 190 million impacted by 2024 data breach; A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts; #TikTok took a huge scoop of American users’ data and stored it in China - #DeepSeek makes TikTok's security issues look like child's play; #CVS Is Turning Locked Shelves Into an Excuse to Make You Download Its App; and Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China.

Posted in: #ai Big Data, #cryptocurrency Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-1-2024/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025

Five highlights from this week: he double-edged sword of AI and cybersecurity; Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog; Cybersecurity Alert: Users Deceived By Fake Google #CAPTCHA Pages; Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location; and Your phone is listening. Do you care?.

Posted in: #Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Economy, Financial System, #Privacy, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2025/01/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-january-26-2025/