Sergey Shkundaleu @archit3ct@social.ssbx.dev

And of course you can trust #Google silently installing an app called Android System Safetecore on your phone. It's for your own safety.

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/28/android-system-safetycore-what-it-does-and-why-you-may-want-to-remove-it/

#android

Sure, they might have your previous data.

But you know what they *don't* have?
They don't have your *future* data.

It's never too late to start improving your data privacy online. Every small step helps.

#Privacy #HumanRights

If you want to learn how Chinese phishing or "smishing" groups are turning phished card data into mobile wallets, check out today's story. The innovation coming out of these groups is remarkable, and includes mobile apps that let thieves relay "ghost tap" NFC transactions to a payment terminal from halfway around the world.

What I find most remarkable is how millions of businesses have spent years and billions of dollars upgrading payment terminals to use more secure chip-based cards. And now these phishers come along and just bypass all of that, creating Apple and Google mobile wallets with the phished card data and a one-time code.

Here's the lede:

Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/how-phished-data-turns-into-apple-google-wallets/

The latest episode of The Phillip Wylie Show has dropped and features Ben Sadeghipour, aka @nahamsec!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wmb6O5-lblE
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/066V2AztFNlLGxpUZ68vh6?si=PMt0nQIYTQWUREMJriOZEA
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phillip-wylie-show/id1685564407?i=1000691203042

You nailed it @AuthorJMac ! 🖖

Edit : Original (and complete) post on March 29, 2024

« You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. »

Cf. https://indiepocalypse.social/@AuthorJMac/112178826967890119

#AI #IA #LLM

Do you enjoy privacy rights?

Because deregulation is how you lose them. Oh and also basic safety, and human rights.

Just so you know: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default-gone_n_67a12742e4b09a02376043c7

#Privacy #HumanRights #USpol

A Journey From Offensive Security to Leadership with Tom Eston https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phillip-wylie0/episodes/A-Journey-From-Offensive-Security-to-Leadership-with-Tom-Eston-e2974r6?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Episode-Reposts

Today is the 8th anniversary of @Liberapay's launch. Coincidentally, I have an announcement to make.

I'm looking for someone to open a new chapter in the project's history by becoming its second maintainer. That doesn't mean it's a programming job, although help in that area is always welcome. You can find a bit more information in https://github.com/liberapay/salon/issues/661 and ask any questions you have there or in private.

Please boost 🙂

[Update] No need to boost further. My thanks to everyone who did!