Cybersecurity
Threats, breaches, best practices, and the tools keeping the digital world secure.
Cybersecurity
Who Owns Your Wearable Health Data? US Law Has Gaps
Your smartwatch's health data isn't covered by HIPAA. The one federal rule that reaches it — the FTC's…
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Is Your Period Tracker App Safe After Roe v. Wade?
After Dobbs, can your period-tracker data be used against you? What the FTC found, why HIPAA doesn't reach…
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GPT-Red: How OpenAI Uses AI to Hack Its Own Models
An automated attacker beating human red teams 84% to 13% measures how many flaws were found. Whether the…
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How Tailscale Replaces Your VPN Without a Sysadmin
A traditional VPN hands out the network. Tailscale hands out access to named services, which means somewhere in…
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Why QR Code Phishing Bypasses MFA and Email Filters
The QR code is not hiding the link. It is moving you onto a device your employer never…
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How crates.io Source Links Close Rust Supply Chain Gaps
Provenance links a package to a build, not to a review. How crates.io, npm, PyPI, RubyGems and Go…
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Solar Security Cameras vs Ring: Skip the Subscription
Every documented failure in this category turned on a gap between what a vendor said it did with…
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How Flock Safety Handles Surveillance Criticism
Flock Safety is making its police-audit tools mandatory after a year of documented misuse — but the guardrails…
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OpenMandriva Sabotage Exposes Open-Source Trust Risks
The xz backdoor was caught by one engineer chasing half a second of SSH latency. The attack did…
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Is Claude Code a Security Backdoor? China’s Claim Examined
Both sides describe the same mechanism and disagree only about what to call it. The reason the dispute…
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Is Local TTS Safe? How CPU Speech Keeps Your Data Private
Offline synthesis removes a network dependency and adds a supply-chain one. The voice model is a downloaded artefact,…
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Virginia Geolocation Data Sale Ban Has a Key Loophole
Virginia's location-data sale ban turns on one word — 'monetary.' A side-by-side of Virginia, Oregon and Maryland shows…