Author archives

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 2025

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: Cut Through GenAI Confusion: Eight Definitive Reads; AI Glossary – Artificial Intelligence Term Guide 2025; AI Incident Database; and Wi-Fi can accurately identify people, even if they aren’t carrying a phone or computer.

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Legislative, Technology Trends, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 25, 2025

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: Publishers Adopt Aggressive New Tactics to Block AI Scraping; What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet; Social Security Administration (SSA) is warning the public about a new government imposter scam; Image Scrubber for obscuring faces, stripping out the identifying metadata attached to your photos; and Clickbait Gives AI Models ‘Brain Rot,’ Researchers Find.

Subjects: AI, Court Resources, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 18, 2025

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: Frustrated Job Seekers Are Trying to Manipulate AI; ChatGPT Is Wrecking Real-Life Marriages – Couples use AI to argue, vent, and even divorce; Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in; Layoffs, reassignments further deplete Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); and Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 2025

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: People are poorly equipped to detect AI-powered voice clones; Meta [Facebook, Instagram] is preparing another way to show you targeted ads and you can’t opt out; Gmail stopped loading hidden trackers when I changed this one setting; Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security; and Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT.

Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Financial System, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Technology Trends, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 2025

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: NIST says that there are three main ways to sanitize data; Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court; USAi tool lets agencies test for AI biases, GSA official says; FBI warns of cybercriminals using fake FBI crime reporting portals; and Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Resources, Privacy