US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHS
A data broker owned by some of America’s biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the US Department of Homeland Security…
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23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic data
In a Senate hearing adequately titled “23 and You: The Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe Bankruptcy,” 23andMe executives addressed concerns about the…
GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex trafficking
Michael James Pratt, the owner of pornographic websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in a US court. Pratt ran the websites,…
Google bug allowed phone number of almost any user to be discovered
Google has fixed vulnerabilities that made it possible to retrieve the phone numbers of almost any Google user. The flaw was found in the flow…
44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds
It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and unknown calls hide extortion attempts,…
Been scammed online? Here’s what to do
Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sound more…
How and where to report an online scam
If you’ve been scammed it’s really important to report it, if you can, in order to help prevent others falling for the same scam, and…
How to update Chrome on every operating system
We often write about important updates for the most popular browser, Google Chrome. Since it would be out of scope to post elaborate update instructions…
OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats
OpenAI has protested a court order that forces it to retain its users’ conversations. The creator of the ChatGPT AI model objected to the order,…
Booking.com reservation abused as cybercriminals steal from travelers
Robert Woodford, a recruitment marketing specialist, recently shared on LinkedIn how he fell victim to a highly sophisticated scam while booking a hotel in Verona…
Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn block access in France, VPN use set to soar
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are suddenly popular in France. Not because France has suddenly become super privacy conscious, but because Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn, have…
Ransomware hiding in fake AI, business tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) and small business tools are being abused as smokescreens to hit unsuspecting victims with ransomware. In the masquerade campaigns discovered by Cisco…