Cybersecurity & Privacy

How One Presentation Frames Surveillance Capitalism as a Design Problem — and a Civic One
A community talk argues that data-hungry platforms do more than track people: they shape behavior, concentrate power, and make privacy harder to defend without public pressure.

ClickFix Is No Longer Just a Low-End Scam — Even Elite Hackers Are Using It
A social-engineering trick once associated with lower-end crime is being adopted by more sophisticated threat actors, broadening its importance for defenders.

What Trump’s newly declassified election documents do — and don’t — show about US voting risks
Trump is using a fresh trove of declassified material to argue that American elections remain vulnerable, but the documents described in the source context mostly revisit long-known concerns rather than proving past election outcomes were altered.

Research says TP-Link Kasa cameras exposed home GPS over unauthenticated UDP for years
A security write-up on the Kasa Spot EC71 says a single UDP request could return precise GPS coordinates and device details without authentication, and that TP-Link has since patched the issue in firmware 2.4.1.

Why your router is suddenly a bigger security target
Home and small-office routers are drawing fresh attention because state-backed hackers can use poorly secured devices as long-lived proxy points, according to a new government warning.