Security & Privacy News

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1. Hacker breaks into US woman's Snapchat account, sends nude photos to friends, family

   By aum, July 29, 2022
   • 1 comment
   • 1,155 views
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   • Comment by andy2004
   • July 29, 2022

2. New VPN Crackdown Underway in Russia, Government Confirms

   By Karlston, June 3, 2022
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   • 1,109 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 3, 2022

3. Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

   By Karlston, June 2   

   • red hat
   • back doors
   • 0 comments
   • 174 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 2

4. Apple says its AI is still private, even when it’s running on Google’s servers

   By Karlston, Tuesday at 09:50 PM   

   • apple
   • ai
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     • apple
     • ai
     • privacy
   • 0 comments
   • 48 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • Tuesday at 09:50 PM

5. Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen

   By Karlston, June 3   

   • dashlane
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   • 72 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 3

6. Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

   By Karlston, May 27
   • 1 comment
   • 212 views
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   • Comment by Mutton
   • May 28

7. Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world

   By Karlston, April 21
   • 0 comments
   • 160 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 21

8. Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

   By aum, April 10
   • 0 comments
   • 268 views
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   • Added by aum
   • April 10

9. Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

   By Karlston, April 22   

   • mozilla firefox
   • vulnerabilties
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     • vulnerabilties
     • ai
   • 0 comments
   • 217 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 22

10. Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud?

    By Karlston, April 13
    • 0 comments
    • 201 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 13

11. Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human

    By Karlston, March 26
    • 1 comment
    • 273 views
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    • Comment by DKT27
    • March 26

12. Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.

    By Karlston, March 3   

    • oops
    • 0 comments
    • 319 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 3

13. Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here’s how it works.

    By Karlston, March 18   

    • age check
    • 1 comment
    • 320 views
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    • Comment by DKT27
    • March 20

14. OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path

    By Karlston, February 12   

    • openai
    • chatgpt
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      • chatgpt
      • ads
    • 0 comments
    • 246 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 12

15. The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

    By Karlston, February 3
    • 0 comments
    • 362 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 3

16. Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

    By Karlston, May 26
    • 0 comments
    • 246 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 26

17. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

    By Karlston, February 23   

    • ai
    • copyright
    • 0 comments
    • 212 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 23

18. Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

    By Karlston, December 17, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 1,489 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 17, 2025

19. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

    By Karlston, December 12, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 471 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 12, 2025

20. Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents

    By Karlston, November 19, 2025   

    • windows 11
    • agentic os
    • (and 1 more)

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      • windows 11
      • agentic os
      • security
    • 0 comments
    • 343 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 19, 2025

21. A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

    By Karlston, January 15   

    • copilot
    • 0 comments
    • 314 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 15

22. Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search

    By Karlston, November 13, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 294 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 13, 2025

23. Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

    By Karlston, December 31, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 370 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 31, 2025

24. 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.

    By Karlston, October 27, 2025
    • 2 comments
    • 587 views
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    • Comment by The Boca Deb
    • October 27, 2025

25. Jaguar Land Rover looking at $2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack

    By Karlston, October 22, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 313 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 22, 2025