What adversaries do to you.
Answers the question: “What are the bad things that can happen to me?”
I mapped dozens of proposed solutions to deepfakes. The result was sobering:No silver bullets. Only tradeoffs. The conversation around deepfakes is full of quick fixes. New watermarking schemes, tighter laws, platform promises.None hold up under pressure. After reviewing countermeasures across technical, legal, policy, and human domains, the pattern is clear: every solution is partial, fragile,…
Sextortion scams aren’t new, but they remain one of the most effective forms of cyber-enabled fraud. These scams don’t rely on hacking into webcams or stealing compromising videos. Instead, they exploit fear, urgency, and personal data to convince victims that someone has damaging material. In reality, most victims are simply names on a massive spam…
Stalkers, advertisers, and hostile actors are digging for your data every day. Your phone is revealing your location. Your credit card transactions are leaving a trail. Adtech building a profile of your habits. The digital world thrives on surveillance. The good news? You don’t have to make it easy for them. Here are five power…
At ObscureIQ, we’re rolling out ThreatWatch. It’s our new active threat monitoring service. Looking for threats forces us to think differently. About how signals get buried. Hidden in places most people overlook. What looks like harmless chatter, a playful meme, or even a gaming mod can sometimes carry a very different meaning. The new language…
Your personal data isn’t just sitting in a credit bureau vault. It’s being actively spread across the internet through a little-known practice called credit header sales. What Are Credit Headers? Credit headers are a snapshot of your key identifying information, including: Full name Addresses Phone numbers Emails Even your Social Security Number and other identifiers…
About 12,000 people die by suicide each year while actively in therapy with a licensed professional. [Psych Today] Nobody blames those deaths directly on the therapist because we recognize correlation isn’t causation. Yet when a suicide follows an interaction with an AI therapy bot, the headline jumps straight to blame. That’s a double standard. Reality…
There was a time, not so long ago, when we had something called functional privacy. Not perfect privacy. Not encryption. Not invisibility. Just a simple, practical buffer between our lives and the public record. Yes, much of our personal data was technically public. But accessing it required time, effort, and intent. You had to show…
Every time there’s a major data breach, companies scramble to offer “free” credit monitoring. It sounds like a responsible move. It sounds protective. It isn’t. Here’s what they don’t tell you: Companies pay just $1–$10 per person to offer it. Fewer than 10% of people even sign up! Those who do often get funneled into…