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Security / privacy heads up: It looks like Google is now publicly linking the phone number on Google Pixel phones (or at least Pixel 6 and up) to any Gmail/Google account you've logged into that phone with.

"Phone number verification is turned on by default. We verify the phone number and add them to all Google Accounts that are signed in on the device. This applies to both current and future accounts and phone numbers. "

I.e., if you write erotica, have an Only Fans, do sex work, etc., and you have logged into your alt email addresses on your phone, Google will now make your personal phone number "findable" for anyone who has that email address.

This will potentially adversely affect a lot of (vulnerable and/or marginalized) people.

Everyone has been opted into this by default (because who has heard of consent or security in tech circles grrr).

To opt out:

1. On your phone, go to Settings, then next to your account name at the very top, go to "Google Services and Preferences".

2. Under “Privacy & security,” select Phone number verification.

3. Select whether to verify your phone number.

If you don't want your different identities linked and findable, make this change asap.

I hope that tech and especially infosec people and privacy advocates raise hell about this. (No one listens to the rest of us.)

*I don't work in tech, but I haven't seen tech people talk about this yet (from my limited Fedi vantage point).

Stay safe and keep your people safe.

Read more in the Google support pages.

https://support.google.com/android/answer/7521240

You're welcome to boost or share this post, but if you see tech professionasl discuss it, I'd much rather you quote them, and if you discuss this outside of Fedi, please do not give me credit. I don't need reply guys coming at me, I just want to flag people on what might be a problem. Thanks for your understanding.

#Infosec #Cybersecurity #Google #Pixel #Gmail

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Hello #infosec 👋 Think Red here. ~25 years keeping attackers out of identity systems; now I try to demonstrate how to ethically break in (with permission) and write down how to catch me. Every upcoming offensive post pays its defensive debt: ATT&CK-mapped, with detections and mitigations. Mostly identity and AI red teaming. Working on my first post soon. Follow along, or grab the RSS: https://thinkred.dev/index.xml #introduction #redteam #blueteam #AIsecurity

Want to know something funny? I routinely monitor GitHub for keywords, keys and domains related to the infrastructure and products I am responsible for protecting. This week I got an alert because one of those domains showed up in someone’s public repository. I looked into it. This was from what appears to be someone trying to start a competitive company - but the issue was that they’d created their entire stack in public repos, and our domain came up because they’d also committed the Claude prompts they’d used to generate said code - and those prompts included the instructions to copy the material on our domain - which is where the alert came from. Obviously this stuff happens all the time and has done for years, it’s just that now, it’s easier than ever to discover it at light speed because people are using tools they don’t understand to do it. Anyway I opened a PR suggesting they do their own work and also lock down their repo. #infosec

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Has anybody here solved the following conundrum?

• wanting a bluetooth/gps tracker to be able to recover a stolen bicycle (or other use case)
• not trusting Google, Apple and other companies to not use/sell/lose data
• using a deGoogled phone and Linux computer (in my case, LineageOS and Fedora)

That is, I would want to be able to recover my bicycle if stolen, while keeping my daily movements as private as possible. Enshittified web search has not helped much..

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Polymarket Supply Chain Attack Drains $2.7 Million via Hijacked Third-Party Script Polymarket reports a supply chain attack after hackers hijacked the DNS records of its performance monitoring vendor, DebugBear, to inject a wallet-draining script. The malicious code exploited active user sessions to steal approximately $2.7 million from 726 wallets before the platform removed the script and initiated full refunds. **** #cybersecurity #infosec #incident #databreach

Hi infosec.exchange 👋 #introduction I'm Seven. In the early 2000s I was writing AIM "progs" in VB6: punters, clone loaders, bots. Learned security by poking at AOL's protocols before most of the rules existed. These days: C#, PHP, web security and AI tooling. I'll be posting about web security, old-school exploits vs. modern defenses, and internet history. Archive: https://sevlegend.com Code: https://github.com/seven305/aim-progs-archive #infosec #websecurity #appsec #retrocomputing

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st if you're an Android user, I very much like Aegis for TOTP/HOTP https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis#Security #InfoSec

Open-weight AI model GLM-5.3 cheated its way to correct answers https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/30/irregular-glm-5-3-cyber-capabilities-evaluation/ #CyberSecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #InfoSec

#hackers have begun exploiting a critical #Brotli #vulnerability known as #Node2Shell, #Broccoli2Shell, and #HTTP2Shell. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111497 #infosec #security #cisa #exploit

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RE: https://mas.to/@markwyner/116184563372403595 Imagine trusting your privacy with a company who favors speed over integrity. A @protonprivacy@mastodon.social employee cautioned against releasing new code that wasn’t properly tested. Andy Yen responded to all Proton employees: “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure. Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster. Only losers think like that. Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” Some of us keep warning folks to avoid Proton. Unfortunately, others, like trusted source @privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer, ignore the red flags and recommend it anyway. If you use Proton, you’re at risk. https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning #Proton #Privacy #InfoSec #AndyYen #AI

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