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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026

Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.

Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-18-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 2026

Five highlights from this week: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward #AI Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating #cybercrime and #fraud A unified approach; #Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; #Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using #Emoji to Avoid Detection.

Posted in: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-11-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 6, 2026

Five highlights from this week: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your #Zoom Meetings into #AI #Podcasts; Beware Dr. #Chatbot: #Privacy laws don’t protect health care data from AI; This new scam could trick you into downloading #Malware Scanner #Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; and Report: Voice-Based #Phishing Surges to New Heights.

Posted in: AI, Computer Security, #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #healthcare Internet Trends, Privacy, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2026/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-6-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 28, 2026

6 items this week; particular hilighed one:

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #TechnologyTrends

https://www.llrx.com/2026/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-28-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 21 2026

Five highlights from this week: AI is moving fast — and breaking things; Google’s Smart Glasses Can Create Fake Photos on the Fly; Microsoft Authenticator Flaw on #Android, #iOS Could Leak Login Codes for Millions; UPMC notifies patients of possible medical record access; and Robot Dogs Are Protecting Data Centers. Operators Are Seeing Payoffs.

#Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #Privacy Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-21-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2026

Five highlights from this week: #Scammers Stole Their Retirement Savings. Then the Tax Bill Arrived; Meta's AI #Deepfake Detection System Fails the Test; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response releases cybersecurity module; Tech giants break silence on #Anthropic and #Pentagon Reportedly Used #Microsoft Workaround to Test #OpenAI Models, Despite Ban.

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, #Privacy Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-14-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 7, 2026

Five highlights from this week: The biggest AI threats come from within - 12 ways to defend your organization; #Anthropic Improves Feature to Switch From Competitors as Users Call for #ChatGPT Boycott; #Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent; Top general spotlights cyber role in #Iran conflict; and A Possible US Government #iPhone Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals.

Posted in: AI, Congress, #cryptocurrencies Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Legal Research, Legislative, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-7-2026/

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 28, 2026

Five highlights from this week: #DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies; #LinkedIn ID verification data will likely be shared with third parties; #AI controls are coming to #firefox #Meta Employee Shares #OpenClaw Email-Deletion Nightmare; and This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.

Posted in: AI, Civil Liberties, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-28-2026/

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Posted in: Congress, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Dems Want to Ban #SurveillancePricing at Big Grocery Stores; I Verified My #LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over; As #AI leaps forward, concern rises that #innovation is leaving safety behind; Chinese telecom hackers likely holding stolen data ‘in perpetuity’ for later attempts, #FBI official says; and Good Luck Banning #smartglasses

Posted in: #ai #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #egovernment #Privacy Social Media, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2026/02/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-february-21-2026/