Hacked Snapchat accounts and secret filming with smart glasses, this week served two reminders of how women’s privacy is still being violated.
Month: February 2026
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit an episode from 2025 in which we tried to answer: Is your phone listening to you?
A security researcher found an exposed database belonging to the Chat & Ask AI app, once again traced back to a Firebase misconfiguration.
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
A list of topics we covered in the week of February 2 to February 8 of 2026
This Apple Pay phishing campaign is designed to funnel victims into fake Apple Support calls, where scammers steal payment details.
The DEAD#VAX campaign tricks users into installing AsyncRAT by disguising a virtual hard disk as a PDF attachment.
A California city pulled the plug on its entire ALPR system when it found Flock had shared data with hundreds of agencies without permission.
Journalists retested Grok and found it still generates offensive images even when told the subjects were vulnerable, non-consenting people.
Mozilla and other companies are starting to see why giving users a choice over AI features matters.