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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New: when a hacking blog says "no politics" (👀), my Anthropic update, more OpenAI hack attacks emerge as Altman peddles OpenAI’s cyber-defense product, stalkers use AirTags and Teslas to murder and harass women; Meta's half-assed coverup of CSAM ads... #cybersecurity www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...

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Cybersecurity: September 15, 2026 | Threat Model

This week: More OpenAI hack attacks come to light as Altman peddles OpenAI’s cyber-defense product; US Air Force confirms placing weapons in

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Why should we pay humans? We can just use AI instead" 😬

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/09/2026

Meta’s $17 billion settlement with 52 state attorneys general doesn’t just affect teens. It requires age assurance for Facebook and Instagram users in nearly every state, and normalizes an invasive system that threatens anonymity online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social

Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced.In this post, we go through

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm fully in support of such places banning customers from wearing smart glasses. However, this brings up the issue that if they're looking to protect privacy of their patrons, are they showing similar concern or taking measures regarding recording/photo via cell phones?

theguardian.com

Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears

Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We need better laws regarding AI and who holds responsibility for it's actions. Article: TECHNOLOGY/INTERNET—9th Cir.: Amazon’s unlawful access claims against Perplexity AI unlikely to succeed; injunction vacated, (Aug 7, 2026)

vitallaw.com

Wolters Kluwer

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This task is going to fall onto all the individual states, with the federal government just tossing in a "good luck!".

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A combination of Privacy Badger, Ublock Origin and Ad Block plus is more than sufficient to protect against this.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

While Australia are also moving to impose a outright ban on social media for under 16s, they've also got some history of trying to hold the platforms accountable. Back in 2023 they slapped a fine on Twitter/X, over online safety.

techxplore.com

Australian regulator says Telegram breached online safety law

Australia's online safety watchdog took court action Thursday against Telegram, alleging the global messaging platform had failed to remove terrorism material.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"I-GRIP links together the offices of national law enforcement in 196 countries with local and international financial firms to speed requests to take action against fraud."

darkreading.com

Interpol Leverages Global System to Curtail Fraud Payments

When a fraudulent transaction occurs, law enforcement agencies must work quickly to halt payments before cybercriminals cash out.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They absolutely should get freaked out by it. That is the most appropriate reaction.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/07/2026

“The young people who could probably least afford to be cut off from their communities are the ones who tend to be suffering and getting harmed the most by these types of laws,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'd like to hope that OpenAI learned a good lesson from this: This specific run had the guardrails stripped out. (OpenAI had turned off its usual safety filters to see what the model could do at full strength, with no human involved in any of its individual moves.) AI still needs a human babysitter

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Mrs. Y @mrsyiswhy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

OpenAI says rogue agent behind Hugging Face hack broke into additional services The four additional targeted organizations weren’t named. OpenAI said they were not affected as severely as Hugging Face.

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OpenAI says rogue agent behind Hugging Face hack broke into additional services

The four additional targeted organizations weren’t named. OpenAI said they were not affected as severely as Hugging Face.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Damn right i'd use a duress code in that situation.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Regarding Dependabot on GitHub: The tool now delays the package update process for 72 hours to reduce the risk of automatically adopting newly published malicious packages. In many recent cases, malicious npm packages were detected and flagged by security tools within minutes of being published.

bleepingcomputer.com

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If your kid is like mine and uses Discord for gaming, you may want to look into alternatives to keep them safe without sacrificing privacy.

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well. I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time. #Privacy @signalapp

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite numerous arrests, scammers continue to try and trick people into either transferring funds, or supplying debit/bank/credit card information over the phone.

fox5vegas.com

Las Vegas police warns of scam calls threatening arrest over missed court dates, jury duty

Police advise: don’t engage—hang up and verify through official channels.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This matters a lot because people are constantly asking me if they should set up a duress passcode in order to fool law enforcement.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

TikTok having a rough couple of years.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Uh, no. It's Meta and they'll likely grab all the data they can about you and your kids. Unknown who they'll sell it to, likely the highest bidder. Maybe they'll just sell it to whoever wants to pay $5 for it. 🙄

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 23/07/2026

“X” is using its rebrand to try to avoid FTC privacy requirements. We all see this for what it is: Elon Musk—the richest man in the world—asking for a pass from Trump’s FTC. Unacceptable. The FTC must reject this petition.

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of us on this account, got a bit carried away with making a comment. Those of us who know the person who made the comment, understand it wasn't intended to be rude, but it came off that way. We don't wish to show anyone disrespect and so we've deleted it, and apologize if it offended any.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Twitter is an American company. How are they dodging compliance?

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

LMAO, I totally get why this dude is trying to mess over the "personalized pricing" algorithms. 👍for his efforts.

youtube.com

How I Tricked Big Tech’s AI Pricing Algorithms to Save $8,793

YouTube video by Chris the Producer

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 22/07/2026

Most popular smart watches and fitness trackers aren't end-to-end encrypted, nor say how often governments demand access to users' data. My argument: If wearable makers don't want to disclose that they're turning over users' data to the feds, then the obvious fix is to end-to-end encrypt it.

this.weekinsecurity.com

Most fitness wearables lack end-to-end encryption and don't disclose government data demands, says EFF

Most fitness wearables don't use end-to-end encryption to protect users' health information, leaving open the door for government demands for data.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 22/07/2026

Proofpoint says out of ~950 companies surveyed, over one-third of companies that paid a hacker’s ransom were hit with a second extortion demand. (Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260722...)

techcrunch.com

If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more | TechCrunch

The latest research reaffirmed that hackers often demanded more money if a victim paid the first time.

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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 22/07/2026

Hugging Face tried to use an American AI to defend against OpenAI's rogue AI, but its safety guardrails got in the way. They had to use a Chinese open-source model instead. This is fine... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm not convinced that any of these countries throwing a ban hammer at their youth, truly have their best interest in mine. Nor are they considering the downfalls of possibly sacrificing privacy and security of ALL their citizens, in order to strip access from certain age groups.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trying to explain the latest AI security frenzy on channel 4 news m.youtube.com/watch?is=yVF...

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AI gone rogue: OpenAI agent hacks Hugging Face

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Named my new VM for running Docker containers "wharf", I regret nothing.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lot of names who are certainly deserving of respect and praise, such as Kevin Mandia. I'm still just a tad irked that Mandiant ended up becoming part of Google, but they haven't wrecked it at least. Not in agreement with Edward Snowden given that he chose to become a Russian citizen.

darkreading.com

20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change

For Dark Reading's 20th birthday coverage, we profile CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Before it's too late, someone please pick a different color. 😅

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some alien caterpillar is trying to set up a home on the deck in my backyard. 😱

A very fuzzy and spikey looking yellow caterpillar.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What? Their AI went rogue, decided to beat up Docker or whatever and ran off to go hack into some other company's AI? "they managed to escape containment, reach the internet, and break into a firm called Hugging Face to satisfy its testing objectives"

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This point is something most people could stand to do a thorough review of: "Limit unnecessary applications."

bitdefender.com

Are You Falling for the Privacy Illusion?

Most of us think privacy is a setting.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yesterday, New York's ban on smart glasses in it's courthouses went into effect. I won't post up the link to the Forbes article since it's a tad whiney though they do make one valid point. Cell phones are still allowed in courts but the glasses are banned. Imo, phones should also be forbidden.

spectrumlocalnews.com

Smart glasses set to be banned in New York courts

The New York State Unified Court System issued a memo at the beginning of July implementing the policy on July 20.

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Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Web Archiving Tools and Resources Tools for Beginners Tools for Intermediates and Experts Collections libguides.gwu.edu/c.php?g=1445... #osint #socmint

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fairlife/Coca-Cola apparently only have until the end of this week to get this mess sorted with Anubis. At this point, unknown if Anubis added in their wiper with this attack.

thehackernews.com

Anubis Ransomware Encrypts and Wipes Files, Making Recovery Impossible Even After Payment

Anubis ransomware encrypts and erases data, leaving no recovery options for targeted industries.

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404 Media @404media.co · 21/07/2026

NEW: Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature which let essentially anyone figure out a user’s real email address which was supposed to be protected by the feature. Apple, who knew about this for over a year, only fixed the vulnerability after 404 Media wrote about it.

404media.co

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage

For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it.

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Safety4All @safety4all.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Hulio stepped down as CEO of NSO Group in 2022, and investors based in the U.S. took a controlling stake in the company last year." Anyone know whether Israel Defense Ministry are still approving sales of Pegasus to foreign countries since the acquisition?

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Mrs. Y @mrsyiswhy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Spain fines 23andMe nearly $3 million for cybersecurity failings enabling 2023 hack The Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) announced the fine on Friday, saying in its decision that more than 2,600 Spaniards were impacted by a breach affecting 6.9 million people worldwide.

therecord.media

Spain fines 23andMe nearly $3 million for cybersecurity failings enabling 2023 hack

The Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) announced the fine on Friday, saying in its decision that more than 2,600 Spaniards were impacted by a breach affecting 6.9 million people worldwide.

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