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Fake Norton LifeLock renewal and invoice emails use a real-looking charge and a callback number to steal your money. Here's how to recognize one and what to do next.

An advanced OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and breached Hugging Face using real-world exploits, reigniting concerns over autonomous AI cyberattacks.

A federal appeals court ruled that border agents can manually search travelers' phones without individualized suspicion, drawing criticism from digital privacy advocates.

Digital fingerprinting lets websites identify and track you across the internet, even after you clear cookies. Here's how it works and how to shrink your fingerprint.

GoDaddy Airo AI Builder creates a step-by-step game plan, fixes its own code, and bundles payments and messaging. I vibe coded a dynamic website to see if Airo is worth it.

California regulators are investigating whether gig economy platforms properly disclose the personal data they collect and use to make decisions about workers.

The HermeticReader vulnerability could expose your WhatsApp Web data in the background after you visit a malicious website, but Adobe has patched the flaw and released a fix.

Windows 10 users remain far more exposed to active vulnerabilities than Windows 11 users, but there are ways to improve your security.

A reverse proxy is the invisible middleman that sits in front of websites to keep them fast and secure. Here's how it works and how it's different from a regular proxy or a VPN.

Aura is the better all-around value for most people, pairing data removal with identity and financial monitoring. Cloaked covers more data broker sites and adds a family plan, making it the pick for maximum coverage.

Cloaked data removal app offers 350+ automatic removal requests, automations to scrub your data from 650+ other websites, and a complete privacy suite. Here’s what I found.

New research suggests some financial institutions continued sharing sensitive information with advertising platforms even before users consented… and after they rejected tracking altogether.

Suno didn't disclose its November 2025 data breach for eight months, leaving users vulnerable to identity theft and phishing attacks.

Aura scrubs your info from 200+ data brokers and adds dark web alerts, antivirus, a password manager, and more. There's no standalone data removal plan, so I explore whether it's worth paying for the whole security suite.

French lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a ban on social media accounts for children under 15. But enforcing it could require millions of users to prove their age online.

Microsoft's new Teams feature can automatically update your office location, but it could also open the door to workplace surveillance and employee tracking.

Platforms like SeekOut say they can search more than 1 billion candidate profiles built from your profiles across the web, without your consent.

A social engineering attack has put millions of Qantas customers at risk of phishing attacks, but Australia's privacy watchdog won't investigate the airline over the breach.

Mozilla researchers found the app shared users' reproductive health information with a third-party analytics company despite marketing itself as a privacy-first option.

Powered by privacy-invasive tech, modern cars can collect everything from your location to biometrics. Here's what they track, who they share it with, and how to stay safe.

Driver-monitoring cameras are now mandatory in the EU. Here's what the U.S. is planning and how your driving data is already being collected.