LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now
LinkedIn plans to share user data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. Framed as “legitimate interest”, it won’t ask for your permission—instead you’ll…
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TikTok is misusing kids’ data, says privacy watchdog
A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn’t have been on…
Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF
Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is…
Malwarebytes for Teams now includes VPN
Running a small business today can hardly be done from a single device, a single location, or a single network. Staying cybersecure is quite the…
Fake Malwarebytes, LastPass, and others on GitHub serve malware
Fake versions of legitimate software are currently circulating on GitHub pages, in a large-scale campaign targeting Mac users. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes for Mac is one of…
Can you disappear online? (Lock and Code S06E19)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether…
American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years
A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media, according to BleepingComputer. The American…
Scammers are impersonating the FBI to steal your personal data
Been scammed? Hoping to report it to the FBI? Definitely do so, but be careful. Spoofed versions of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)…
Beware of Zelle transfer scams
As we have said many times before, falling for a scam can happen to the best of us. And it can ruin lives. In our…
ChatGPT solves CAPTCHAs if you tell it they’re fake
If you’re seeing fewer or different CAPTCHA puzzles in the near future, that’s not because website owners have agreed that they’re annoying, but it might…
ChatGPT Deep Research zero-click vulnerability fixed by OpenAI
OpenAI has moved quickly to patch a vulnerability known as “ShadowLeak” before anyone detected real-world abuse. Revealed by researchers yesterday, ShadowLeak was an issue in…
Disrupted phishing service was after Microsoft 365 credentials
Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a Phishing-as-a-Service operation, known as RaccoonO365. The primary goal of RaccoonO365 (or Storm-2246 as Microsoft calls it) was to rent…