The Post-Roe Privacy Nightmare Has Arrived

The Supreme Court struck down the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to abortion in the US for 49 years. All of that is in grave danger.

The consequences of the court's decision are not overstated. Civil liberties advocates have warned for decades about the dangers of abortion and the privacy nightmare that will come with it.

The criminalization of abortion in states across the US requires that people adopt a comprehensive digital privacy strategy to protect themselves from the government. Changing to an end-to-end encrypted app like Signal, limiting your data footprint by using search engines like DuckDuckGo, and using a browser extension to block web trackers can be included in this. We recommend the Digital Defense Fund and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for more information.

We have a guide on how to protest safely if you want to protest against the Supreme Court. We have a list of resources for information on receiving an abortion in the US.

We explained how to password protect any file and dove into security risks related to Microsoft's internet explorer browser. Brave has a new Goggles tool that allows you to create custom search filters. Artificial intelligence is being used in the US intelligence community. A new type of spy ware has been used to target people in multiple countries, according to researchers.

That's not the whole story. We haven't been able to cover ourselves, so we rounded up the biggest security news from the last week. To read the full story, click on the headline. Stay safe out there.

This week, Microsoft released a report on Russia's cyber efforts. There have been at least 48 attacks against Ukrainian entities. While some efforts have been successful, researchers found that rapidly deployed digital defenses have fended off many of these attacks. Russian hackers are not limited to targets inUkraine. Russian network intrusion efforts were identified against 128 organizations. Russian attacks on NATO countries have been successful 29 percent of the time. Russian hackers stole data from victims' networks in 25% of the successful attacks. Russia is carrying out cyber influence operations, at least some of which encourage people to not get vaccine for Covid-19.

Despite political misinformation remaining rampant on Meta's platforms ahead of the mid-term elections in November, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly shifted his attention from election- related issues to focus on the metaverse. According to multiple sources who spoke to The New York Times, Facebook's core election team has been dispersed and just 60 people now focus on election integrity issues full time. Tom Reynolds claimed that many people at Meta are focused on election-related work.

Another company hack nets criminals huge amounts of money. An application used to transfer cryptocurrencies from one block to another was the target of the latest attack. The company says the hackers stole a large amount of money. There are a lot of weak points in the coin world. In late March, hackers believed to be part of North Korea's Lazarus Group made off with $540 million worth of digital currency.

It's happened to us all: On your way home after a night of partying, you misplace a drive that contains the names, addresses, birthdays, and tax-related information of everyone in your city. Have you ever had something happen to you? A contractor in Amagasaki was not so lucky. The data of 460,000 Amagasaki residents was lost by a contractor after a night of drinking, according to The Guardian. The city has found no evidence that the data was leaked. Thank you!