Privacy
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Op-Ed: How the UK’s New Online Safety Act Risks Pushing Young People to Dangerous Spaces Online
October 4, 2024(The following op-ed, written by cybersecurity expert, Joseph Steinberg, appeared in Byline Times, Britain’s leading independent,...
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Will iPhone’s New “Lockdown Mode” Inspire Dangerous Overconfidence In Apple’s CyberSecurity Capabilities?
July 13, 2022Apple last week announced new security features specifically intended to offer “specialized additional protection to users...
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Hushme: A Headset That Lets You Make Private Phone Calls In A Non-Private Environment
June 7, 2021Every so often, I encounter an unusual technology device that so well solves a problem that...
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COVID-19 Vaccination Management Problems Have Created a Privacy Nightmare For Americans – Even Without Vaccine Passports
April 20, 2021Poorly-designed processes and shoddy information-systems, coupled with a prevailing atmosphere of general mismanagement, have created a...
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Ransomware: 8 Things That You Must Know
April 6, 2021While ransomware may seem like a straightforward concept, people who are otherwise highly-knowledgeable seem to cite...
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Do Not Post Your COVID-19 Vaccination Card On Social Media
February 11, 2021It seems like every day that I see social media posts in which people share photos...
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Online Retailers That Cancel Purchases Continue To Utilize Personal Information Gathered During The Attempted Transactions
February 2, 2021While we have become somewhat accustomed to the data collection practices of online retailers seeking to...
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Images Of Government-Issued IDs Should Not Be Trusted For Authentication
January 11, 2021Government Issued identity documents (IDs), such as passports and drivers’ licenses, may be appropriate forms of...
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Social Media Account Verification Messages: CyberCriminals’ Latest Phishing Technique Exploits Both Human Emotions And Anti-Fraud Techniques
December 1, 2020Social media users’ delight at receiving notification that their accounts have qualified for Verification (that is,...
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Even Without Seeing You, People Can Read Your Lips, Identify You, and Read Your Writing – Thanks To Wi-Fi
November 23, 2020Did you know that by analyzing Wi-Fi signals governments and others can spy on you physically,...