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Cell-site simulators, which mimic cell towers, were used to locate a student protestor (and could collect info from anyone standing nearby). Read the full story: wired.com/story/feds-got-war…

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

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Journalist Brian Krebs found a dark web site selling millions of US and Canadian drivers' license scans and confirmed their authenticity with nine people. The site vanished after his report, and the source of the data hasn't been established. Full story: reut.rs/3VoCsdJ

FBI probes report of data breach exposing millions of drivers' licenses in US, Canada

The FBI said on Wednesday it was investigating a report that tens of millions of drivers' licenses belonging to people in the ​United States and Canada were being sold on the dark web.

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A former AT&T retail worker got 16 months in federal prison for SIM swap attacks. Accomplices impersonated victims in person, he moved their numbers, and the group used the intercepted 2FA codes to reach victims' bank accounts, intending losses of $600K. Read the full story: bit.ly/4ydTuc5

AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle

Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4k for in his part attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,000

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An investigation looked inside data broker Acxiom's files on consumers. It found predictions in 3,000+ categories, from BMI percentile to mammogram likelihood, and 100+ named buyers, including GEICO, JPMorgan, GM, and T-Mobile. 🔗 Read the full story: bit.ly/4hAqp5x

Who’s buying your personal data: Disney, GM, your insurer and bank. Here’s what they get – The...

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other charact...

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Cape's Ruddy Wang joined the Easy Prey Podcast to talk mobile privacy and tracking: what metadata your phone leaks, how IMSI/IMEI identifiers work, how signaling attacks happen, MNOs vs. MVNOs, and practical steps to protect yourself. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=hlJKHIA3…

The Real Truth About Mobile Privacy and Tracking | Ruddy Wang

Understanding the shift toward a privacy-first mobile carrier. Lear...

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If you already have an account with Cape, you can now port-in a phone number to replace your current primary number into your existing account, without losing your referrals or any other settings. See how here: cape.co/port-in

Port In - Cape

Port your primary number to Cape without losing your account, referrals, or settings.

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Cell-site simulators are seeing new adoption among US police. DC Metro PD, NYPD, and Texas State Police have all signed contracts with Israeli firm Cognyte in the past year. EFF has tracked 80+ departments using this tech nationwide. Read the full story: bit.ly/4qXam4Y

This creepy Israeli spy tech is likely operating in a city near you

Police departments across the US are buying phone tracking equipment from Cognyte Solutions

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Comcast's new Wi-Fi Motion feature turns newer Xfinity routers into home motion sensors. Enabling it means Comcast can share the data it generates with third parties, without notifying you, for law enforcement requests, subpoenas, or legal disputes. Full story: bit.ly/46wcXcy

Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

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Cape CEO @JohnDoyleCape tells Cyberscoop why we joined the top tech infrastructure providers in calling out the risk of legacy systems: “It was already failing us in telecom–critical infrastructure that’s been breached time and again with serious consequences for both our military and regular people.” 🔗 Read the full article: cyberscoop.com/ai-cyber-defe…

100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense

Over 100 leading tech companies, including OpenAI and Microsoft, have signed an open letter calling for a global surge in AI-powered cyber defense to secure critical infrastructure before attacks...

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Cape joins OpenAI and other tech infrastructure providers in calling for greater defense against AI attacks: nytimes.com/2026/08/27/techn… Telecom is perhaps the critical infrastructure that is most mired in legacy systems. Status quo security has exposed us to unacceptable risk before, and is digital suicide in the age of AI. Without collective action toward innovative cyber defense, the consequences will only get worse.

OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Call for Greater Defense Against A.I. Attacks

In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

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An open letter for a global surge in cyber defense, signed by over 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle.

A call for collective action on cyber defense

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Over the last year, we donated the 1st month of each Cape subscription by GrapheneOS users to GrapheneOS to help fund their independent development. To date, we've donated $89,790.19. Over the next year, we're donating $100,000 to GrapheneOS. Read more: bit.ly/4xU1nU7

Cape Supports GrapheneOS - Cape

We're donating more than $100,000 to the GrapheneOS project to help fund their independent development.

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A Washington judge ruled T-Mobile violated the state's data breach notification law 722,000+ times, tied to its 2021 breach. The violation isn't the breach itself: the text notifications sent to affected customers didn't meet the state's legal requirements. Full story: bit.ly/4hB7DLP

T-Mobile violated WA data breach notification law, judge rules

T-Mobile used text messages to notify hundreds of thousands of Washington customers of its data breach. The court says their content was insufficient.

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A security researcher walks through a real SIM swap attempt against their own account: the swap happened days before the follow-up call ever came, disguised as a routine customer service check-in. Only a passcode stood between the attacker and full takeover. 🔗 Full story: bit.ly/4wBMncD

When Identity Verification Fails: Lessons from a Real-World SIM Swap and Near Account Takeover

Identity confidence changes throughout every interaction and should be reassessed continuously as new risk signals emerge.

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T-Mobile is expanding its T-Life customer profiles, pulling in device, network, app, and location data, some of it collected automatically at the account level even if you never open the app. Opting out means hunting through several separate settings. Read the full story: tek.io/4pp21Gk

T-Mobile Expands T-Life Profiles: What Data It Uses and How to Opt Out - TechRepublic

T-Mobile is expanding T-Life profiles and interest preferences. See what data its ad programs use, how to opt out, and what IT teams should audit.

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An Israeli surveillance firm is selling $1M+ "spy vans" to US police departments. Built into ordinary-looking SUVs, they force every phone in range to connect to a fake tower and hand over location + device data. Read more: cybernews.com/privacy/us-pol…

US police SUVs can sweep up every nearby phone signal

The controversial devices impersonate legitimate cell towers, compelling nearby phones to connect and revealing their unique identifiers and locations.

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We had @trailofbits independently audit our Disappearing Call Logs feature, where our internal systems delete CDRs after 24hrs instead of the months-to-years telecoms usually keep them.
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Here are their findings: ✅ CDRs deleted within our retention policy ✅ Only per-subscriber data kept: daily usage totals, deleted within 60 days Read the full attestation: cape.co/blog/disappearing-ca…

Audit of Disappearing Call Logs - Cape

Most carriers retain your call logs and metadata for years, which they use to build detailed profiles of your behavior to sell to ad networks and data brokers. At Cape, we believe your data belongs...

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#Cape CEO @JohnDoyleCape sat down with @foundersexplain to break down all the ways your phone is tracking you, and what you can actually do about it.
Founders Explain The World@foundersexplainAug 6
NEW EPISODE: Cape founder John Doyle explains why your phone is way less secure than you think. Watch the whole thing here: youtube.com/watch?v=frS2cVSD…
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Commercial cellular is an integrated part of modern warfare, and Cape is building features to make it mission ready, rather than try to put the toothpaste back in the tube by banning cell phones. I wrote a bit about this for DefenseScoop: defensescoop.com/2026/07/30/…

We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We're just not doing it.

We’ve known about this for vulnerability for decades, and industry, Congress, and the Pentagon can fix it.

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Reuters reports the Pentagon is considering banning cell phones for troops in the Middle East. This has never worked. People will bring their cell phones with them or buy them when they arrive, because they aren't willing to abandon them.
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