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Doxers Posing as #Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data

WIRED

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data

A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

#privacy #dox #doxing #doxxing #police

Why Isn’t Online #AgeVerification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?

This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, wh...

#privacy #politics

#Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder

System76 Blog

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder

An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.

#Linux #PopOS #Cosmic #CosmicDesktop #FOSS #privacy

#AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts

Schneier on Security

AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts - Schneier on Security

I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here’s some interesting res...

#crypto #blockchain #cybersecurity #SmartContract

#UK fines #LastPass over 2022 #DataBreach impacting 1.6 million users

BleepingComputer

UK fines LastPass over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 million users

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fined the LastPass password management firm £1.2 million for failing to implement securit...

#cybersecurity #politics #PasswordManager

Is #Signal safe?

Proton

Is Signal safe? What to know about this encrypted messaging app | Proton

Signal is often considered the gold standard in private and secure messaging. But is Signal safe? How much of its reputation is justified?

#privacy #cybersecurity

#AI hackers are coming dangerously close to beating humans

MSN

#cybersecurity

#Porn Is Being Injected Into #Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs

404 Media

Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs

Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.

#cybersecurity #nsfw

#Microsoft bounty program now includes any flaw impacting its services

BleepingComputer

Microsoft bounty program now includes any flaw impacting its services

Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was writ...

#cybersecurity #BugBounty