This is pretty scary: > Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, > Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI. > > For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated “executor” script > designed to intercept and capture conversations. The harvesting is enabled by > default through hardcoded flags in the extension’s configuration. > > There is no user-facing toggle to disable this. The only way to stop the data > collection is to uninstall the extension entirely. > > […] > > The data collection operates independently of the VPN functionality. Whether > the VPN is connected or not, the harvesting runs continuously in the > background...

Iniziamo con la multa della commissione europea ai danni di X: leggiamo le motivazioni e cerchiamo di capire se davvero, come alcuni dicono, è cambiata la musica per le Big Tech, con una Unione Europea più interventista. In Irlanda la ICCL apre un procedimento contro Microsoft presso la commissione per la protezione dei dati dell'Unione Europea per la fornitura di servizi all'esercito israeliano, in particolare l'esteso sistema di raccolta di tutte le intercettazioni di tutte le persone a Gaza. Quando la notizia è diventata pubblica, la Microsoft ha interrotto l'accordo (pur mantenendo molti altri legami con Israele). Usare le VPN tutela la vostra privacy? Dipende dalla VPN: il caso di Urban VPN Proxy è, come per tutte le VPN gratuite, negativo. Anna's Archive annuncia un backup completo di Spotify, con 300TB di musica e metadati. Si tratterebbe del più grande archivio pubblico di musica. Notiziole * Nuovi poteri alla polizia di Berlino, soprattutto su tematiche legate all'acquisizione di dati, alla sorveglianza tramite malware, l'uso di bodycam e addirittura la possibilità di usare i dati raccolti in fase di indagine per addestrare l'intelligenza artificiale * In India il governo lancia la app di sorveglianza obbligatoria su ogni smartphone, ma il provvedimento dura 24 ore. * Ennesimo ban in Russia, proibito Roblox; è un altro avanzamento per RuNet, con crescente malcontento * No, l'IA non vi ruberà il lavoro. L'esperimento di far gestire una macchinetta per la vendita di bibite e snack ad un'intelligenza artificiale è un fallimento (per la ditta) su tutta la linea: bibite vendute a zero euro assieme a pesci vivi e cubi di metallo, crisi di identità per l'IA e il licenziamento di un Ceo virtuale * Ennesima frontiera dell'IoT: farsi spiare da dentro la tazza del bagno Ascolta l'audio nel sito di Radio Onda Rossa Your page content goes here.

One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts of data they retain. A new study found that many commercials VPNS are (often surreptitiously) owned by Chinese companies. > It would be hard for U.S. users to avoid the Chinese VPNs. The ownership of > many appeared deliberately opaque, with several concealing their structure > behind layers of offshore shell companies. TTP was able to determine the > Chinese ownership of the 20 VPN apps being offered to Apple’s U.S. users by > piecing together corporate documents from around the world. None of those apps > clearly disclosed their Chinese ownership...

The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data: > Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that > its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, > following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in > connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown user of the service. > > The case centred around a Windscribe-owned server in Finland that was > allegedly used to breach a system in Greece. Greek authorities, in cooperation > with INTERPOL, traced the IP address to Windscribe’s infrastructure and, > unlike standard international procedures, proceeded to initiate criminal > proceedings against Sak himself, rather than pursuing information through > standard corporate channels...

A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: > When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want > to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or > detected by defenders. One countermeasure is to equip the backdoor with a > passive agent that remains dormant until it receives what’s known in the > business as a “magic packet.” On Thursday, researchers revealed that a > never-before-seen backdoor that quietly took hold of dozens of enterprise VPNs > running Juniper Network’s Junos OS has been doing just that...

It’s being actively exploited.