Join EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn in conversation with 404 Media Cofounder Jason Koebler to discuss Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, Cindy’s personal story of standing up to the Justice Department, taking on the NSA, and tangling with the FBI to protect our right to digital privacy. The highly anticipated book asks the fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Join the livestream for a live discussion followed by by Q&A. EFFecting Change Livestream Series:Privacy’s DefenderThursday, March 19th11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PacificThis event is LIVE and FREE! Accessibility This event will be live-captioned and recorded. EFF is committed…
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This is the attention economy. The politics of personality. Trump, Farage, Polanski, Mamdani. Hate them or love them, their ability to dominate the narrative and social media is winning out over traditional means. Trump’s particular approach is, of course, the most egregious. By saturating the market to the nth degree, it’s hard to even remember what happened last week. Let alone care about it. I think this is the problem facing more traditional media. Younger audiences have grown up with this as the norm. Fake news. A brutal job market. Housing so unaffordable that living in a shipping container is…
A proposed New York bill would ban AI chatbots from providing legal or medical adviceThe legislation would allow users to sue companies if their chatbots impersonate licensed professionalsLawmakers say the measure is meant to protect the public as AI tools become more widely usedAI chatbots have spent the past few years answering nearly every kind of question imaginable, but New York lawmakers are preparing to draw a firm line around at least a couple of categories of conversation. A bill advancing through the state legislature would prohibit AI chatbots from providing legal or medical advice and would allow users to…
A recent Government Accountability Office report highlights businesses’ frustrations with the way the government currently oversees cybersecurity.
Hackers contacted employees at financial and healthcare organizations over Microsoft Teams to trick them into granting remote access through Quick Assist and deploy a new piece of malware called A0Backdoor. The attacker relies on social engineering to gain the employee’s trust by first flooding their inbox with spam and then contacting them over Teams, pretending to be the company’s IT staff, offering assistance with the unwanted messages. To obtain access to the target machine, the threat actor instructs the user to start a Quick Assist remote session, which is used to deploy a malicious toolset that includes digitally signed MSI installers hosted in…
Google has confirmed that Google Marketing Live 2026 will take place on May 20, when the company is expected to unveil its latest updates across advertising, AI, measurement and campaign automation. The date surfaced in an email received by PPC News Feed owner Hana Kobzová from the Accelerate with Google program, which invited participants to submit entries for the Google Ads Impact Awards. According to the message, winners of the awards will be announced during Google Marketing Live 2026. Why we care. The annual event has become one of the biggest announcement days for advertisers using Google Ads. Google Marketing…
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A threat actor has been abusing the internet infrastructure top-level domain (TLD) .arpa to host phishing content on domains that should not resolve to IP addresses, Infoblox reports. The .arpa TLD is designed to map IP addresses to domains, providing reverse DNS records, and should not host web content, as other TLDs do. As part of the newly uncovered campaign, however, a threat actor has been abusing DNS record management controls of certain providers to add IP address records for .arpa domains and serve phishing content to victims. Impersonating major brands, the phishing emails display an image hiding an embedded…
Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityTL;DR Apple’s rumored smart home display may have been delayed yet again. Apple is reportedly still waiting for its next-generation Siri overhaul to be ready. The device could now launch around September, potentially alongside the iPhone 18 Pro. Apple fans may have been looking forward to its long-rumored smart home display, which could rival devices like the Google Nest Hub or Amazon Echo Show. Those fans may need to brace themselves for bad news, as a new report suggests the device has been delayed again while Apple continues working on a major overhaul of Siri.According…
We’re celebrating the launch of Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn on Thursday, March 12—and we want you to join us! Cindy has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge on the internet. In Privacy’s Defender she asks: can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Join the festivities for a live conversation between Cindy Cohn and Annalee Newitz followed by a book signing with Cindy. REGISTER TODAY! $20 General Admission for 1$30 Discounted tickets for 2$12.50 Student TicketAll proceeds benefit EFF’s mission. Want your…