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#Satellites Are #Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, #Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites #unencrypted.
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#Satellites Are #Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, #Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites #unencrypted.
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#KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ #HBOMax Series
A new #documentary series about #cybercrime airing next month on #HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the #exploits of #JuliusKivimäki , a prolific #Finnish #hacker recently convicted of #leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online #psychotherapy practice while attempting to #extort the clinic and its patients.
#privacy #securityhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/krebsonsecurity-in-new-most-wanted-hbo-max-series/
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#KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ #HBOMax Series
A new #documentary series about #cybercrime airing next month on #HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the #exploits of #JuliusKivimäki , a prolific #Finnish #hacker recently convicted of #leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online #psychotherapy practice while attempting to #extort the clinic and its patients.
#privacy #securityhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/krebsonsecurity-in-new-most-wanted-hbo-max-series/
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#KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ #HBOMax Series
A new #documentary series about #cybercrime airing next month on #HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the #exploits of #JuliusKivimäki , a prolific #Finnish #hacker recently convicted of #leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online #psychotherapy practice while attempting to #extort the clinic and its patients.
#privacy #securityhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/krebsonsecurity-in-new-most-wanted-hbo-max-series/
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#KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ #HBOMax Series
A new #documentary series about #cybercrime airing next month on #HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the #exploits of #JuliusKivimäki , a prolific #Finnish #hacker recently convicted of #leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online #psychotherapy practice while attempting to #extort the clinic and its patients.
#privacy #securityhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/krebsonsecurity-in-new-most-wanted-hbo-max-series/
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#Firmware #vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give #hackers #superuser status | Ars Technica
BMCs give near-total control over entire fleets of servers. What happens when they're hacked?
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The #SearchEngine for #OnlyFans #Models Who Look Like Your Crush
Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual #deepfakes.
#privacy #security #presearch #Doppelgängerhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-search-engine-for-onlyfans-models-who-look-like-your-crush/
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Widely used #DaemonTools disk app #backdoored in month long supply-chain attack
Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed #malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday.
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Trump’s Threat to Invoke the #InsurrectionAct , Explained
The #Insurrection Act is meant to be a rarely-used exception to our foundational principle that the American #military should not police the American people on domestic soil. That general rule exists for good reasons: military policing of #civilians is corrosive to #democracy and it puts our #civilLiberties and #rights in peril.
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/trumps-threat-to-invoke-the-insurrection-act-explained
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I did a good guy vs bad guy Ai #infosec game exercise...
Basically, the bottom line is, whoever the aggressor is , wins.
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#Google Says Criminal #Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
#ai #artificialintelligence #security #privacyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
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How #Influencers and #Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke #Realities for Everyone
#Disinformation researcher Renée DiResta's new book lays out how people’s realities are shaped not by facts and #evidence, but by black boxes, niche #celebrities, and online communities.
#realityhttps://www.wired.com/story/influencers-algorithms-bespoke-reality/
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The #Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping #Security Failures
When #Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the #breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of #cybersecurity.
#Syria #privacyhttps://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-hack-that-exposed-syrias-security-failures/
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#Canadian #election databases use "canary traps"—and they work
In a world awash in high-tech #security tools like #passkeys , quantum-safe algorithms, & public-key #cryptography , it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things... like a good old-fashioned #canary trap.
The canary trap is a simple tool often used to identify #leakers or #doubleagents. To make one, you simply share a document, image, or DB but make tiny changes that are unique to each recipient.
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@PrivacyDigest for the sake of Privacy, don't use and deactivate that 'feature'. Apple was trying to protect us all along, by not implementing RCS.
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Tell #Congress : Throw Out the NO FAKES Act and Start Over
#copyright #nofakeshttps://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-throw-out-the-no-fakes-act-and-start-over
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse
The updated bill doubles down on that initial mistaken approach by mandating a whole new #censorship infrastructure for that system, encompassing not just images but the products and services used to create them, with few safeguards against abuse.
#copyright #nofakeshttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/no-fakes-act-has-changed-and-its-so-much-worse
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Senate’s NO FAKES act hopes to make unauthorized “digital replicas” illegal
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#London Man Wore #SmartGlasses For #HighCourt 'Coaching'
A witness in a #LondonHighCourt case was caught using smart glasses connected to his phone to receive real-time coaching while giving #evidence during cross-examination. "In my judgement, from what occurred in court, it is clear that call was made, connected to his smart glasses, and continued during his evidence until his mobile phone was removed from him,"
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Donald #Trump and #SeanHannity Set Off a Wave of #Disinformation After #Iran Bombing
#Trumpworld has been trying to spin the US military’s bombing of Iran as a complete and total victory, even as independent experts and #MAGA loyalists object.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-sean-hannity-disinformation-iran-bombing/
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Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea
More than a decade ago, #Congress tried to pass #SOPA & #PIPA —two bills that would have allowed the gov & #copyright holders to shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The #backlash was immediate & massive. Internet users, #FreeSpeech advocates, & tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, … in an “Internet Blackout” on Jan 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like gov-run #blacklists
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
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#ElonMusk Vies to Turn X Into Super App With #Banking Tool Near Launch
More than 3 years after acquiring #Twitter , Elon #Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an "everything app" with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month
#privacy #security>as if I would ever let anything by #Musk anywhere near my financial resources. Especially since it’s believed his #DOGE group stole our #SocialSecurity info.
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Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ #Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website
A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with #Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.
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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after #ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
#OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of #Kratom and #Xanax.
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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after #ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
#OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of #Kratom and #Xanax.
#mentalhealth #ai #artificialintelligence