Security Education and Awareness: Because Not Everyone Is Technical

In most companies, you won't find a workforce made entirely of developers, engineers, or cybersecurity experts. You'll find salespeople, HR professionals, operations managers, customer support teams, and leadership—alongside technical staff.

This diversity is a strength for business, but it creates a critical challenge for…

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Loupe – „What your apps can see“

Was Loupe zeigt, sehen (potenziell) auch andere Apps. Das ist keine Panikmache und nicht skandalös, aber eine Anregung, bestimmte Zugriffsrechte vielleicht nicht unüberlegt auszuteilen. Loupe is an iOS and iPadOS app that gives you a hands-on tour of the device fingerprinting surface. It reads real values from public iOS APIs, the same ones any third-partyweiterlesen

May 4, 2026

1. UK Raises Terrorism Threat Level to “Severe” After Antisemitic Attack in London

Britain elevated its national terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe” following a stabbing attack on two Jewish men in the Golders Green area of London, which police have formally declared a terrorist incident. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for a “more united nation” and signaled that some…

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May 02, 2026

1. UK Raises Terrorism Threat Level to “Severe” Following Golders Green Attack

The UK's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre raised the national terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe” on April 30—the highest in four years — following an antisemitic stabbing attack in Golders Green, London. MI5 cited a rise in both Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threats as the driving…

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April 29, 2026

1. Chinese State-Sponsored Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Silk Typhoon Cyber Espionage Campaign

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Xu Zewei, a Chinese national extradited from Italy, for his alleged role in the HAFNIUM/Silk Typhoon cyber espionage campaign. Xu is accused of conducting state-directed intrusions during 2020–2021 that exploited Microsoft Exchange Server…

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CogDef Brief — April 29, 2026

1. Chinese State-Sponsored Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Silk Typhoon Cyber Espionage Campaign

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Xu Zewei, a Chinese national extradited from Italy, for his alleged role in the HAFNIUM/Silk Typhoon cyber espionage campaign. Xu is accused of conducting state-directed intrusions during 2020–2021 that exploited Microsoft Exchange Server…

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April 28, 2026

1. Germany Attributes Signal Phishing Campaign to Russia

Germany formally attributed a months-long phishing campaign targeting Signal messenger accounts of cabinet ministers, military officials, and journalists to a Russian state-controlled cyber actor. Victims received fraudulent messages mimicking Signal support, prompting them to enter PINs or scan QR codes that granted attackers access to…

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April 27, 2026

1. Mali Rocked by Coordinated Jihadi and Separatist Offensive; Defense Minister Killed

Coordinated attacks by jihadist group JNIM and Tuareg separatist rebels struck military sites across Mali on April 25–26, including the main military base at Kati outside Bamako. Mali's Defense Minister Gen. Sadio Camara was killed in the assault, and armed groups seized towns and military installations in…

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April 23, 2026

1. Russia Deploys AI-Generated Deepfakes in Coordinated Psychological Campaign Against Ukraine

Ukrainian officials and researchers at Sensity have identified over 1,000 synthetic videos forming part of what they describe as a structured "narrative kill chain" — a modular disinformation system targeting Ukrainian soldiers, civilians, and Western audiences. The deepfakes depict frontline Ukrainian…

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Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)

Today's links Georgia's voting technology blunder: It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GWB's illegal iPod; McDonald's breakfast sandwich fanfic; Technofeudal debt; "The Everything Box"; $100m deli. Upcoming appearances: Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, NYC,…

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April 11, 2026

A joint warning from the FBI, NSA, and German BfV highlights Russia's exploitation of vulnerable routers in a campaign to steal credentials from critical targets, while significant data breaches and espionage operations raise national security concerns across various sectors.

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April 10, 2026

The CogDef Brief discusses various cybersecurity incidents, including the disruption of a Russian DNS hijacking campaign by the DOJ, a North Korean supply chain attack on the Axios npm package, and critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet, alongside espionage activities and threats posed by an emerging Russia-China information alliance.

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You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

submitted by cm0002 to ublockorigin
59 points | 8 comments

You’re paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

  • Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
  • A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy…
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You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

submitted by k3ym0 to ublockorigin
56 points | 7 comments

You’re paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

  • Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
  • A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias…
Read more →
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