Martin Shelton

1 week ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. In May 2024, Microsoft announced a new feature named Recall, which would take screenshots of Windows users’ activities every few seconds and retain them for later searches. Windows users could then use Microsoft’s Copilot AI to search through their previous activity.

2 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Following last year’s arrest by French authorities of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the company is apparently much more cooperative about compliance with legal requests for user data.

2 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

Welcome to “Ask a security trainer,” the column where the Digital Security Training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) answers your burning questions at the intersection of journalism and security. Submit yours here! Let’s jump right into this week’s question. Dear DST,I’ve been seeing this story in the news about U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sending attack plans in Signal chats to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who was apparently accidentally added to the group.

3 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. After a five-year legal fight, infamous spyware developer NSO Group has been ordered to pay WhatsApp nearly $168 million in damages over targeting approximately 1,400 users with Pegasus spyware, including journalists.

1 month ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. While cookies have many legitimate uses, such as helping to keep you logged into websites, advertisers have also long used cookies embedded in websites to track users’ behaviors.