Ars Technica: Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules. “The researchers analyzed about 8 million Facebook comments and found that abusive and racist comments targeting both Republican and Democrat lawmakers tripled in the six months after the new rules were put in place. Some categories of abusive comments documented by the researchers saw even sharper rises, […]

NBC News: Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations.”

Apple is introducing new measures to make stolen iPhones less valuable to thieves.

If your phone is stolen, criminals may attempt to access your accounts, passwords, banking apps, and personal information.

Protect yourself:

✔ Enable Find My iPhone
✔ Use a strong passcode
✔ Turn on Stolen Device Protection
✔ Secure your accounts immediately if a device is lost

Pause. Check. Verify.

Listcrime.com

#PhoneTheft #CyberSecurity #OnlineSafety #Apple #iPhone #FraudPrevention #Listcrime

Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social media

“Wait, no, not like that…” — Andy Burrows, probably.

Molly Russell: Head of online safety charity warns against social media ban – BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdy9vg9jmo

Toll Tag Scam Alert

Fraudsters continue to use fake toll-payment text messages to steal personal and financial information.

Common indicators:

• Urgency
• Payment requests
• Suspicious URLs

Verify before you trust.

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #ScamAlert #Smishing #OnlineSafety