Pit Hegsty Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control
As the Trump administration’s offensive immigration policy increase, people are seriously considered their privacy and security as they cross the United States. This is especially true for the search for passenger phones and other devices, with our customs and border guards having extensive search. Fortunately, there are actions you can take, such as deleting specific apps from your personal phone or using an alternative phone that is only set for international travel.
The perpetrators, with the so -called Foreign Ministry’s efficiency (DOGE), have spent the first months of the Trump administration spent walking to US government systems. It is now exactly what these systems are and what kind of data they have for our residents. Wired this week has detailed 19 DOGE operating systems to the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Monday. Excellent Pontev’s death is moving, a secret process used to select the new pop. To protect Conclave’s integrity and to try to prevent leakage, a wide range of security measures, from Windows Privacy Film in the Vatican, to jam and vacuum signals for hidden microphones.
Google has just announced the initial declaration of the end -to -end email for Google’s workspace accounts, which is good news for the privacy of company level users. When a user sends a non -work account by email, the recipient invites to create a guest account so he can read the email. Unfortunately, security experts say it is likely to create new opportunities for phishing attacks, as fraudsters are trying to bait people with fake invitations.
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Signalgate is a scandal that is not just dies – at least if you are the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegst. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the Hegst was installed on the “second computer in his office” so that he could “use the signal in a classified space, where mobile and other personal electronics are not allowed and communicate with anyone with ease.”
The Associated Press added to the image of the reported Hegst signal on Thursday, showing that Hegst had installed the second line of the Internet that connects directly to the public Internet, not through the Pentagon securely connected, according to sources that have spoken to the AP. Hegest is said to have done this so that it can use that second computer with the installed signal. Then on Friday, the New York Times found that the phone number related to the Hegst signal account – one of the things he used to use – was easily discovered, potentially to open him to a targeted cyber attack by hostile countries.
Despite the constant flow of arrests and online fraudsters, cybercriminals work at unprecedented levels and earn more than ever. Two reports released this week show the clear scale of the online crime. Last year in the United States, jobs and people lost $ 16.6 billion for online crimes, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center – this is the highest figure ever reported and 33 % compared to 2023. In 2024, 859.532 complaints about possible online crimes, with FBI statements and FBI complaints about FBI and SPOOFing Scores complaints of 193,000 investment frauds, often involving encryption, make up more than $ 6 billion of total loss, with fraud by $ 2.7 billion.
At the same time, the UN Narcotics and Crime Office emphasized that giant fraud compounds in Southeast Asia – where human trafficking victims are forced to work with frauds – produce $ 40 billion in profits per year and are growing. These industrial -scale frauds, often linked to Chinese criminals, strongly use investment scams (sometimes called pigs) to collect people from saving their lives and expand outside the region. “It is spreading like cancer,” said Bodykh Hafman of Unodc.
In 2020, Google announced that its Chrome browser stops using third -party cookies, which track people throughout the web, and moves in a less reptile way to finance its advertising jobs. Web browsers such as Safari, Firefox and brave cookies announced years before the Google Declaration. But this week, after numerous rotations, failed efforts to develop other options, and criticism of the Cookies replacement suggestions in Google’s favor, the company announced that it was actually keeping tracks in Chrome.
“We have decided to provide our current approach to providing a third -party cookie in Chrome,” wrote in a blog post. “As we have been involved with ecosystem, including publishers, developers, regulators and the advertising industry, it is still clear that there are divergent views on changes that can affect the availability of third -party cookies,” Chavez wrote. While the US government suggests that Google sells Chrome as part of its anti -monopoly case against the company, third -party cookies can still be turned off or used by a friendly browser.
