Day archives: April 18th, 2026

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

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media