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The Pentagon Finally Admits That Location Data Is a Battlefield Problem

The Pentagon confirmed adversaries are using commercial location data to track U.S. troops, exposing risks tied to smartphones and ad-tech networks. For years, security researchers, privacy advocates, and intelligence analysts have been warning about the same thing: smartphone location data isn’t just an advertising product. It’s surveillance infrastructure that anyone with enough money can access.…

SHARED INTEL Q&A: PKI’s unfinished business—’digital passports’ for content, models and agents

As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough. AI agents are now arriving by the thousands — and most enterprises are just handing them borrowed credentials and hoping for the best. Meanwhile, the cryptographic infrastructure asked to absorb these threats faces a hard regulatory countdown requiring digital certificates — the credentials securing every…

Meta to track employee keystrokes, screen activity to train AI agents

Meta plans to track US employees’ mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train workplace AI agents, according to Reuters, offering an early look at how far major tech companies may go to build systems that can automate knowledge work. The company plans to do so through a tool called Model Capability Initiative, or…

Citizen Lab: Webloc tracked 500M devices for global law enforcement

Citizen Lab reported that law enforcement used the surveillance tool Webloc to track up to 500M devices via ad data globally. A report by Citizen Lab revealed that law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Hungary, and El Salvador used a surveillance tool called Webloc to track devices via advertising data, potentially affecting up to 500…

Free VPNs leak your data while claiming privacy

Most free Android VPNs track users, request dangerous permissions, and connect to risky servers, privacy comes at a hidden cost. Free VPN apps are some of the most popular downloads on Android, promising privacy at no cost. But the reality is far from what they advertise. Most users tap “install” without a second thought, unaware…

$100 radio equipment can track cars through their tire sensors

When people consider what might track their movements, they think of smartphone apps, GPS services, or roadside cameras. The tires of a new car rarely enter that equation. Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, found that Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) sensors inside each wheel broadcast unencrypted wireless signals containing persistent identifiers.…

Salesforce Revamps Consulting Partner Track for Agentic Era

Salesforce is overhauling its Consulting Track partner program, shifting from traditional implementation metrics to a results-driven model designed to support what it calls the “Agentic Enterprise” era. The company said the program update is intended to reward partners based on verifiable customer outcomes rather than legacy scorecards and administrative benchmarks.  With partners already leading 70%…

Digital Fingerprinting in 2026: What Platforms Know About You Before You Click

Platforms don’t need cookies to track you. Learn how digital fingerprinting works across four layers and practical steps to reduce your exposure. You cleared your cookies. You’re using incognito mode. Maybe you even have a VPN running. None of that matters as much as you think. Modern platforms don’t need cookies to identify you. They’ve…

Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive

Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in OneDrive, allowing users to create AI assistants built from selected files and folders. The feature allows users to group project plans, meeting notes, technical specifications, presentations, and research materials into a single…

File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake 

Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…