Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

By Amanda Hoover — March 20^th 2024 at 09:00

Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns.

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Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage

By Boone Ashworth, David Nield, Matt Burgess — November 26^th 2023 at 14:00

What you look for online is up to you—just make sure no one else is taking a peek.

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The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started

By Matt Burgess — April 13^th 2023 at 16:07

Security researchers are jailbreaking large language models to get around safety rules. Things could get much worse.

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What to Do When Your Boss Is Spying on You

By Omar L. Gallaga — March 4^th 2023 at 13:00

Employee monitoring increased with Covid-19’s remote work—and stuck around for back-to-the-office.

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Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts

By Lily Hay Newman — January 20^th 2023 at 14:00

New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.

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How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech

By Pia Ceres — October 10^th 2022 at 11:00

Colleges and K-12 campuses increasingly monitor student emails, social media, and more. Here’s how to secure your (or your child’s) privacy.

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Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms

By Andy Greenberg — September 23^rd 2022 at 16:52

New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

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A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years

By Lily Hay Newman — August 5^th 2022 at 22:09

The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.