Autumn Tyr-Salvia

I attended a presentation on the Chinese-run Myanmar scamming complexes a while back, so reading this NYT article taking a closer look at them was interesting. I feel so bad for the victims of trafficking and job scams who end up working in these places.

Gotta get through the "data privacy training" for work. It referenced a study done by IBM in 2020 that said 80% of businesses said their customers' personal information had been compromised. And I mean, that's just the ones that owned up to it!

World Economic Forum Phishing and cyber-enabled fraud are escalating global threats affecting users, consumers, organizations and countries alike. This white paper presents a systemic defence framework to confront this ch...

Phishing & cyber-enabled fraud are exacting a heavy toll. How can we shift our efforts upstream? A new report from World Economic Forum & Institue for Science and Technology calls for embedding user safety by default #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

Learn more: www.weforum.org/publications...

Judge advances data privacy class action against LinkedIn The judge rejected LinkedIn's argument that no one would have been able to sift through the amount of data shared and so privacy wasn't violated.

A coworker brought up LinkedIn Learning; my only recent referent for that has been some Facebook ads telling me I might be entitled to financial compensation if I'd used it. Just looked up what that's about: www.courthousenews.com/judge-advanc...

...ARGH this is twice in one week now! This time, a financial institution whose "verify your email" email isn't set up with DMARC. Nooooooo.....

I read a book called IBM and the Holocaust and let me tell you, this goes nowhere good. Nazis used innocently-collected census data long after the fact to find people, and we are long past "it can't happen here." Census data privacy IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR SAFETY.

Registered with a city platform to put a comment on upcoming council motion and the email went to my spam folder due to a DMARC failure, so now I'm emailing a bunch of people at the city to get them to make their vendor fix it. Email geek civic busybody mode: engage!

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

Really excellent piece on the GOP attempting to intimidate Google over putting messages in the spam folder even though those messages give off significant signals that indicate they are unsolicited. It is not partisan to use functional spam filtering.

!! Email PSA !! Got an old Yahoo account you want but ignore? They just reduced the amount of free storage you get, so if you don't pay or delete stuff, your email might be bouncing as of 8/27/25. This is your call to login and make sure everything still works.

DMARC is a goal and then a maintenance practice. Orgs need to be prepared to maintain DMARC compliance as part of their regular audit and security. You wouldn't let all your former employees keep active logins and keys to the office, right?? So don't continue authorizing old vendors, either!

Nita Farahany (@nitafarahany) I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives. Share this widely!

I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives.

How do you join? Easy, just subscribe. Then you're in!

Share this widely!

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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets -...

Cybercriminals gave Brian Krebs some pretty amazing lines in this criminal complaint.

"“Krebs is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]."

Awesome.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oreg...

One of the reasons I love email and have made it the center of my career is that it is so flexible and extensible and, yes, irrepressible.

DMARCbis Updates: Proposed changes to the DMARC Specification- dmarcian

The #DMARC spec is getting an update. The IETF is proposing changes—DMARCbis—to improve clarity, flexibility, and ease of deployment.

Get the breakdown of what's changing and learn how you can prepare: dmarcian.com/dmarcbis-vs-...
#DMARCbis #DKIM #EmailAuthentication

This Secretive Company Built An Empire By Hawking Bad Financial And Health Advice On Facebook The Agora Companies, sued by the SEC, FTC, and two state AGs, reach hundreds of millions of people across social media with misleading promises of wealth and wellness.

www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Stop Scams Alliance Stop Scams Alliance is a nonprofit whose mission is to significantly reduce scams in the United States through public-private partnership with technology, telecom, financial institutions, consumer adv...

Recently saw an amazing presentation from StopScamsAlliance.org. I loosely follow the anti-scam protections world, but even I was surprised by some of what I learned, particularly the degree to which scams are funding foreign adversaries (and I don't say that lightly).

I mean, they've been a sabotage risk since day 1 (not even commenting on my dislike of their work, but they were always loyal to Musk and not Trump). It would be great if he would remand them to custody to be prosecuted for their crimes, though.

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

Recognizing the risks tariffs pose, some brands are using their marketing programs to position themselves with their customers to try to minimize the impact on their customer relationships—with more messaging to come in the months ahead. www.cmswire.com/digital-mark... #digitalmarketing

Somebody needs to get M3AAWG over to Bluesky.

Nice to see you around these parts!

Going to be attending a work conference in Canada soon, flying nonstop from the US... so tell me, why did United Airlines just email me about RealID? These flights require a passport, RealID is not going to do anything for me.

The uncomfortable confusion of loading a website that has switched to light mode without permission

Barbie Maker Mattel Plans to Raise Prices Because of Trump’s Tariffs

BREAKING: The price of Barbies in the United States are rising fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...

The best things about my occasional forays into the office: 1. seeing a few of my favorite coworkers 2. nice chance to walk around the city for a bit with my headphones on 3. that spooky liminal feeling of a deserted office after almost everyone's gone for the day.

Cancer patient lost life savings to whisky barrel scammers Jay Evans was among hundreds duped into ploughing millions of pounds into casks that were overpriced or did not exist.

First time I've heard of whiskey as an investment scam, but sadly will probably not be the last. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A little-known law is in the spotlight: What to know about the Privacy Act of 1974 The Privacy Act of 1974 protects personal information collected across federal agencies. Privacy groups and attorneys are invoking it to block access to personal records by DOGE.

Thank you @npr.org for including me on ATC to talk about the Privacy Act of 1974 @uvalaw.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...

Configuring and using personalized audio isolation Users can enable the Personalized audio isolation audio profile, which aims to better differentiate your

A brief moment to mention how much I love Zoom's voiceprint audio isolation. I can leave my white noise system running when I'm on a call and no one but me hears it because of this great feature. support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...

IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia

Was talking with a coworker about slow data, and mentioned that time someone implemented TCP/IP over carrier pigeons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over...