Category «Cybercrime»

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 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: Cybersecurity firms targeted by fraudulent OpenAI organization invites; Polestar says Commerce Department is banning US sales of its cars; Google Loses Final Appeal Over €4.1B EU Android Fine; US tech dependence: A risk report for European businesses; PrivacyHawk Enterprise helps organizations find shadow IT and minimize third-party cyber risk; and FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, PopaBotnet.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System

Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know

AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to limit the damage a compromised agent or other AI security vulnerability can cause.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, KM, Legal Profession, Legal Technology

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 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: Worries mount about another state AI law preemption; Meta Tested Military Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses; Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App; A Popular Streaming Service May Owe You $2,500; and Anthropic suspends top AI models after U.S. export control order.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media, United States Law

AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Six highlights from this post: Warren’s Warning: Is The AI Boom America’s Next Financial Crisis?; What Investment Data Implies about the AI Transition; AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications; Review into the long-term impact of AI on retail financial services (The Mills Review); Financial Stability Risks Mount as Artificial Intelligence Fuels Cyberattacks; and Banking AI Explainability Is Now a Regulatory Requirement—Are Banks Ready?

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 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: FCC Proposal Could Ban Anonymous Burner Phones in US; Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp; Emergency Weather Alerts on Netflix? There is a Growing Push to Get the FCC To Mandate Alerts on Streaming; The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI; and If you don’t fall for these extortionists’ calls, they’ll show up with USB sticks.

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 6, 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: One company may know everything about you; Fake ChatGPT download site infects Windows and Mac users with malware; Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts; Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta’s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027; and FBI Tracks ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ Amid Growing AI Backlash.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

AI in Finance and Banking May 31, 2026

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Seven highlights from this post: The Optimal Use of AI in Financial Regulation; Inside Claude’s rapid expansion across corporate finance; What Real-Time Risk Looks Like. AI enables risk assessment at the speed of the business; Vendor Lock-In and AI: The Risk Banks Aren’t Pricing; The geography of AI firms; I’m the CEO of Goldman Sachs. The AI Job Apocalypse Is Overblown; and OpenAI gives Japan banks access to latest model, Japan’s finance minister says.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

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 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
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