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While the aggressive policy of the Trump administration immigration grows, people have begun to seriously consider their privacy and security when they move to the United States. This is especially true when it comes to searching for passenger phones and other equipment, which customs agents and US border protection have extensive authority to search. Fortunately, There are some steps you can takesuch as deleting applications assigned from your personal phone or using an alternative phone that is set only to travel internationally.
Operatives with so -called Elon Musk Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) The first months of the Trump administration have passed by becoming their way to the US government systems. It is now starting to become clear exactly what those systems and what kind of data for the US residents they hold. Wired this week detailed that the 19 systems doge operatives have access to Only in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. Supreme passage pontiff sets a conclusion, the secret process used to choose the new pope. To protect the integrity of the conclusion and try to prevent leaks, A wide range of security measures will be placedFrom the Windows intimacy film to the Vatican to signal jams and purges for hidden microphones.
Google recently announced the initial email participation coded from the bottom to the Google Workpace accounts, which is good news for the privacy of enterprise levels. When a work space user sends a non -working account by email, the recipient receives an invitation to create an invited account so that they can read the email. Unfortunately, security experts say, this is likely Create new opportunities for Phishing attackswhile fraudsters try to bite people with fake invitations.
But that’s not all. Week every week, we round out the safety and intimacy news we didn’t cover in depth. Click on the titles to read full stories. And stay safe there.
oil Is the scandal that simply won’t die – at least not if you are US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wednesday, Reported Washington Post That Hegseth had installed a signal on a “second computer in his office” so that he used a signal in a classified space, where his mobile and other personal electronics are not allowed, and communicate easily with anyone “.
Associated Press on Thursday added to the picture From the use of Hegseth’s reported signal, revealing that Hegseth received a second line in the installed internet directly connected to the public internet rather than through the secured Pentagon connection, according to sources spoken with AP. Hegseth supposedly did so so he could use that second computer with an installed signal. Then Friday, New York Times found That the phone number associated with Hegseth’s signal account – the one he used in that infamous group conversation – is easily detected online, potentially opening it into target attacks by hostile nations.
Despite a steady course of arrests and Tapedowns of fraudsters onlineCyber criminals operate at unparalleled levels and earn more money than ever. Two reports released this week reveal the harsh degree of online criminality. Last year in the United States, Businesses and Individuals lost $ 16.6 billion for online crimesAccording to the FBI Internet Crime Complaints – this is The highest figure ever reported and a jump of 33 percent compared to 2023. In 2024, there were 859,532 complaints about possible internet crimes, with FBI saying Phishing and spoofing complaints Account for 193,000 of them, followed by extortion with 86,000 complaints. Investment fraud, which often include Cryptocurrency, make up more than $ 6 billion of total losses, with Business Mail Compromise Frauds leading to a loss of $ 2.7 billion.
About the same time, the United Nations Office for Drugs and the crime stated that Giant fraud compounds in Southeast Asia—Where victims of human trafficking are forced to work deceived people – are generating $ 40 billion in profits a year and keep growing up. These industrial -scale fraud organizations, which are often associated with Chinese criminals, use many investment fraud (sometimes called pig-chain) to follow people from their life savings and are expanding outside the region. “It spreads like a cancer,” said Benedict Hofmann of UNODC in a STATEMENT.
In 2020, Google announced that its browser Chrome would stop using third-party cookies that trace people online, and would pass in a less boring way to empower its advertising businesses. Internet browsers like Safari, Firefox and Brave Ditched Cookies years before Google made the announcement. But this week, after countless turns, failed efforts to develop alternatives and criticism that proposals to replace cookies would favor Google, the company announced that it will, in fact, be, in fact, Keep tracers in chrome.
“We’ve made the decision to maintain our current access to offer users to selecting third-party cookies in Chrome,” wrote Anthony Chavez, Google VP responsible for his sandbox intimacy efforts, in a blog. “While we are engaged with the ecosystem, including publishers, developers, regulators and the ADS industry, it remains clear that there are different perspectives to make changes that may affect the availability of third -party cookies,” Chavez wrote. As the US government is proposing that Google sell chrome As part of its antitrust issue against the company, it is still possible to turn off third -party cookies or Use a friendly browser for intimacy instead.
