Signal scandalous spirals of Pete Heget outside of control

As the aggressive immigration policy of the Trump administration increased, people began to seriously consider their confidentiality and security as they move to the United States. This is especially true when it comes to searching for phones and other devices of passengers that US customs and border protection agents have a wide search body. Fortunately, There are some steps you can takeSuch as deletion of certain applications from your personal phone or using an alternative phone that is only set up for internationally traveling.

Operations with the so -called Elon Musk Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) have spent the first months of the Trump administration entered the US government systems. Now it is clear what these systems are and what data on US residents are possessing. Wired this week is detailed access to the 19 systems to which access to Exactly at the Ministry of Health and Human ServicesS

Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88. The passage of the supreme Ponif launches a conclave, the secret process used to choose the new pope. To protect the integrity of the conclave and try to prevent leaks, A wide range of security measures will be introducedFrom a Windows confidential film in the Vatican to signal hammers and vacations for hidden microphones.

Recently, Google announced the initial deployment of an encrypted email from end -to -end for Google Workspace accounts, which is good news for users’ confidentiality at the enterprise level. When a workspace user sends an email to a non-working space, the recipient receives an invitation to create a guest account so that they can read the email. Unfortunately, say security experts, this will probably Create new Phising Attack OpportunitiesBecause fraudsters try to lure people with fake invitations.

But that’s not all. Every week, we round the security and privacy news, which we did not cover in depth. Click the titles to read the full stories. And stay safe there.

Signal is a scandal that just won’t die – at least not if you are US Secretary of Defense Pete Heget. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported The fact that heget has installed a signal on a “second computer in his office” so that he can “use a signal in a classified space where his mobile phone and other personal electronics are not allowed and to communicate with no ease.”

Associated Press on Thursday Added to the photo From the reported use of the heget’s signal, revealing that heget is an installed second internet line that is directly connected to the public internet and not through the protected connection of the Pentagon, according to sources that spoke with AP. Heget claims that he did this to be able to use this second computer with a signal installed. Then on Friday, The New York Times found That the phone number associated with the heget’s signal account – the one he uses in this scandalous group chat – is easily detectable online, potentially opens it to target cyberattacks from hostile nations.

Despite the constant flow of arrests and Remove online scammersCybercriminals work at unprecedented levels and make more money than ever. Two reports published this week reveal the great online crime scale. Last year in the United States, Business and Persons lost $ 16.6 billion for online crimesAccording to the FBI internet crime complaint center – this is the highest digit ever reported and a 33 percent jump compared to 2023. In 2024, there were 859 532 complaints about potential online crimes, such as the FBI says Fishing and forgery complaints They represent 193,000 of them, followed by extortion with 86,000 complaints. Investment frauds that often include cryptocurrency make up more than $ 6 billion of total losses, with Business email compromises fraud resulting in losses of $ 2.7 billion.

At about the same time, the United Nations and Crime Nations Service emphasized that giant frauds in Southeast Asia– where the victims of human trafficking are forced to work with deceptive people – generate profits of $ 40 billion a year and Continue to growS These industrial large -scale frauds that are often associated with Chinese criminals use strong investment frauds (sometimes called pig) to overcome people in their lives and expand outside the region. “Spread like cancer,” said Benedict Hoffman of Unodc in a statementS

Already in 2020, Google announced that the Chrome browser would stop using third-party cookies that track people on the web and switch to a less fearsome way to power their advertising businesses. Web browsers like Safari, Firefox and bold cookies are thrown years before Google makes the message. But this week, after countless turns, the efforts have failed to develop alternatives and criticism that proposals for replacement of cookies will favor Google, the company announced that it would actually be Keep trackers at ChromeS

“We have decided to maintain our current approach to offering users to choose third -party cookies in Chrome,” writes Anthony Chavez, Vice President on Google, responsible for his Sand Box Privacy efforts in A in A Blog postS “As we have committed ourselves with the ecosystem, including publishers, developers, regulators and the ADS industry, it remains clear that there are different prospects for making changes that could affect the presence of third -party cookies,” Chavez wrote. While the US government is Offers Google to sell chrome As part of his antitrust case against the company, it is still possible to exclude third party cookies or Use a privacy browser insteadS