How to prevent customs agents from copying your phone’s content
Data copied from devices at entry points into the United States — including airports and border crossings — gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of…
Privacy is Cybersecurity for People
Why do companies need CyberSecurity? Have you ever heard a company talk about privacy when they are discussing a massive hack and theft of your data? Why is cybersecurity such…
Build a Custom Firewall and WiFi Access Point with IPFire
What is a Custom Firewall? "Flash Routers" are another term for a custom firewall and WiFi Access Point. They are a form of custom firewall and WiFi access point that…
Google opens up its experimental AI chatbot for public testing
Google opens up LaMDA to the public, but it's launching with guardrails that aim to prevent it generating offensive responses. Google announced AI Test Kitchen in May, along with the second…
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims
A security researcher says that Apple's iOS devices don't fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known…
All of Your Smart Devices Are Spying on You
At this point, it’s obvious that our smartphones and computers are data-leakers. Plenty of us now cover our laptops’ webcams (although we always forget about the mics), while our smartphones track…
This site exposes the creepy things in-app browsers from TikTok and Instagram might track
Did you know you’re potentially being tracked when you load an in-app browser on iOS? A new tool reveals exactly how, showing how applications like TikTok and Instagram can potentially…
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
Meta's Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were…
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
A 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors after an apparent medication abortion at home in Nebraska. The state’s case relies on…
Amazon’s One-Stop Shop for Identity Thieves
Imagine if a budding identity thief had a free, user-friendly, publicly searchable database that contained the name, location, date of birth, and mother’s maiden name of millions of people. Enter…