Security & Privacy News

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1. Elon Musk is silently training his Grok AI on your X data, but you can stop him

   By Karlston, July 27, 2024   

   • twitter/x
   • 3 comments
   • 1,744 views
   • 
   • Comment by Akaneharuka
   • July 28, 2024

2. Losing SMS authentication on Twitter? Here's how to keep your account secure for free

   By Karlston, February 20, 2023   

   • twitter
   • 2fa
   • 0 comments
   • 1,569 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 20, 2023

3. You may soon add notes to passwords in Google Chrome

   By Karlston, February 20, 2023   

   • google chrome
   • passwords
   • 0 comments
   • 1,001 views
   • 
   • Added by Karlston
   • February 20, 2023

4. 1Password does away with passwords, shifts to passkeys

   By Karlston, February 10, 2023   

   • 1password
   • 0 comments
   • 1,737 views
   • 
   • Added by Karlston
   • February 10, 2023

5. AMD Ryzen 9000, 8000, 7000 CPUs have a vulnerable TPM-Pluton, major firmware fix released

   By Karlston, June 15, 2025   

   • amd ryzen
   • vulnerability
   • 0 comments
   • 885 views
   • 
   • Added by Karlston
   • June 15, 2025

6. A security group found a Microsoft server with key data that was not password protected

   By Karlston, April 10, 2024   

   • microsoft
   • 1 comment
   • 1,368 views
   • 
   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • April 11, 2024

7. Tor Project welcomes Tails OS to improve user privacy and security

   By Karlston, September 26, 2024   

   • tails
   • tor project
   • 0 comments
   • 1,262 views
   • 
   • Added by Karlston
   • September 26, 2024

8. Move back to Windows 10 from Windows 11 sees Defender do well again in AV-TEST's results

   By Karlston, December 15, 2022   

   • microsoft defender
   • av-test
   • 0 comments
   • 1,344 views
   • 
   • Added by Karlston
   • December 15, 2022

9. Multiple Microsoft 365 services are facing another outage

   By aum, July 30, 2024
   • 0 comments
   • 938 views
   • 
   • Added by aum
   • July 30, 2024

10. India's telco authority plans to implement AI and ML-based solutions to curb SMS spam

    By Karlston, November 29, 2022   

    • india
    • sms spam
    • 0 comments
    • 1,177 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 29, 2022

11. UK phone companies will have to identify and block spoofed calls

    By Karlston, November 15, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 905 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 15, 2022

12. Ongoing antitrust evidence reveals Google's strategy to 'crush' its competition in ads

    By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

    • google
    • antitrust trial
    • 3 comments
    • 1,463 views
    • 
    • Comment by aeri
    • September 15, 2024

13. Mozilla enables Total Cookie Protection Firefox feature for Android by default

    By Karlston, November 14, 2022   

    • mozilla firefox
    • android
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • mozilla firefox
      • android
      • cookies
    • 0 comments
    • 1,204 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 14, 2022

14. Buying ads on Twitter "high-risk," says world's biggest ad company

    By Karlston, November 16, 2022   

    • twitter
    • ads
    • 0 comments
    • 1,144 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 16, 2022

15. Microsoft Edge will soon warn you about compromised passwords

    By Karlston, July 8, 2025   

    • microsoft edge
    • passwords
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • microsoft edge
      • passwords
      • beta channel
    • 0 comments
    • 524 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • July 8, 2025

16. Microsoft Edge reportedly steals data from Chrome without user permission

    By Karlston, January 29, 2024   

    • microsoft edge
    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 1,382 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • January 29, 2024

17. Latest Patch Tuesday mends Spectre V2 vulnerability affecting AMD Ryzen Windows PCs

    By Karlston, November 9, 2022   

    • amd
    • 0 comments
    • 1,033 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 9, 2022

18. Mozilla fixes critical Firefox vulnerability exploited in the wild

    By Karlston, October 10, 2024   

    • mozilla firefox
    • update
    • 0 comments
    • 1,292 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • October 10, 2024

19. Microsoft finally killing 1024-bit TLS so Windows stops loading old outdated shady web apps

    By Karlston, March 16, 2024   

    • microsoft windows
    • tls
    • 0 comments
    • 1,454 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • March 16, 2024

20. PayPal goes passwordless with support for passkeys

    By Karlston, October 25, 2022   

    • paypal
    • passkey
    • 0 comments
    • 1,322 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • October 25, 2022

21. YouTube confirms that it is testing out blocking ad blockers on the site

    By Karlston, May 11, 2023   

    • youtube
    • ad blockers
    • 0 comments
    • 1,560 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • May 11, 2023

22. Google Chrome on Windows will get a new layer of protection for cookies and passwords

    By Karlston, July 31, 2024   

    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 990 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • July 31, 2024

23. Meta faces new AI copyright infringement lawsuit in France

    By Karlston, March 12, 2025   

    • meta
    • copyright
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • meta
      • copyright
      • france
    • 0 comments
    • 1,033 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • March 12, 2025

24. After all the Windows 11 security touting, Microsoft Defender comes last in AV-TEST's result

    By Karlston, November 16, 2022   

    • av-test
    • 0 comments
    • 1,470 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 16, 2022

25. Microsoft issues PowerShell scripts to fix WinRE BitLocker bypass on Windows 11, Windows 10

    By Karlston, March 17, 2023   

    • windows 11
    • windows 10
    • 0 comments
    • 1,107 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • March 17, 2023