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Pete Weiss, formerly a Systems Engineer in Teleprocessing at The Pennsylvania State University

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 29, 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: Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks beginning in 2010, Dies at 93; California Sues Owner of Former 23andMe; Troops’ phones leaked location data to foreign adversaries; FBI Warns Companies About Ransom Gang’s Fake IT Support Tactics; and Crypto Security Pioneer: ‘I Now Consider All of Decentralized Finance Unsafe’.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 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: OpenAI Shared Your Chats with Meta & Google, Lawsuit Claims; FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers; YouTube Opens AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All Adult Users; Lawmakers warn data protection rules don’t protect key sites; and Google’s Spam Policies Now Apply to Attempts to Manipulate AI.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 15, 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: The DHS Is Using Google to Spy on People Who Criticize ICE, Even Outside the US; No, Grandma, Brad Pitt Isn’t Pitching Medicare on Facebook; Trump Says He Discussed ‘Standard’ AI Safety Guardrails With Xi. There’s No Such Thing Maybe there should be; FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem; and Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Privacy, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 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. Four highlights from this week: Users lost $2.1 billion on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp in 2025; Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites: Report; Fake CAPTCHA scam turns a quick click into a costly phone bill; PA Rep. proposing regulations on how data from license plate readers is used; and Trump admin floats policy language limiting contractor say on agency uses of technology.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet Trends, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 2, 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 experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes; Hiding Bluetooth Trackers in Mail; 1,100 AI Trainers Were Fired After Blowing the Whistle on Meta’s Ray-Ban Privacy Problem; Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead; and Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 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: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

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.

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 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: 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 Emojis to Avoid Detection.

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Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 4, 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: 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; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; and Report: Voice-Based Phishing Surges to New Heights.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Internet Trends, Privacy, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 28, 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: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts; Tech issues continue to haunt 911 systems; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; OMB’s AI guidance falls short on privacy, watchdog says; and the FBI Director Got Hacked By Iran. Now He’s Offering $10 Million to Catch Them – In Iran.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Technology Trends
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