The united state The Supreme Court broke yesterday Roe against Wade, the massive 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to abortion in the U.S. for 49 years and, as Maryn McKenna wrote for WIRED, “changed lives for women.” Now, all of that is in jeopardy.

It is impossible to magnify the profound consequences of the court’s decision. In addition to the life-and-death risks that pregnant people now face, the end of Roe and the rise of criminalized abortion is determined to deliver a privacy nightmare warned by civil liberties advocates for decades.

As we reported in May after Politico leaked the draft Supreme Court decision, the criminalization of abortion in states across the US requires that people adopt a comprehensive approach to digital privacy to protect themselves. from the monitoring state. This could include steps like switching to an end-to-end encrypted app like Signal, limiting your data footprint by using search engines like DuckDuckGo instead of Google, locking down your privacy settings on your phone, and use a browser extension to block web trackers. For more details on securing your digital privacy, we recommend guides from the Digital Defense Fund and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

If you plan to protest against the Supreme Court decision, check out our guide on how to protest safely. And if you’re looking for information about receiving an abortion post-Roe America, we also have a list of resources for that.

In other stories this week, we explained how to password protect any file and dive into the lingering security risks associated with Microsoft’s defunct Internet Explorer browser. We took a look at Brave’s new Goggles tool for its privacy-focused search engine, which lets you create custom search filters. We explore the ways in which the US intelligence community uses artificial intelligence. And we detailed a new type of spyware that Google and Lookout researchers say has been used to target people in many countries.

But that’s not all. We circled here the big security news last week that we were unable to cover ourselves. Click on the headlines to read the full story. And stay safe outside.

Microsoft this week released a report on the dive into Russia’s cyber efforts in its ongoing war against Ukraine. Researchers have found that Russia has launched at least 48 attacks against Ukrainian entities. Although some efforts were successful, the researchers found that the rapid deployment of digital defenses resisted many of these attacks, including a failed Russian military effort to deploy ” wiper “malware against Ukrainian government computers. However, Vladimir Putin does not limit Russian hackers to targets in Ukraine. Microsoft researchers identified Russia’s “network intrusion efforts” against 128 organizations in 42 countries outside Ukraine. Moscow often targets the governments of NATO countries, and researchers say Russia’s attacks have been successful 29 percent of the time. In a quarter of successful attacks, Russian hackers stole internal data from victims ’networks. Microsoft also warned that Russia was conducting global “cyber influence operations,” though some were pushing propaganda encouraging people not to get vaccinated for Covid-19.

Despite the political misinformation that remained rampant on Meta platforms ahead of the midterm elections in November, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly shifted his attention from election -related issues to focusing on the metaverse. According to many sources spoken The New York Times, the “main election group… has dispersed,” and only 60 people focus on election integrity issues full-time. Company spokesman Tom Reynolds disputed that number, saying “hundreds” of people on Meta are focused on election-related work.

Another day, another cryptocurrency company is hacking to lure criminals with so much money. The latest known attack, against California-based Web3 firm Harmony, targeted the blockchain bridge, an application used to move cryptocurrencies from one blockchain to another. The company said hackers stole about $ 100 million in digital assets. Bridges are a known weak point in the crypto ecosystem. In late March, hackers believed to be part of North Korea’s Lazarus Group seized $ 540 million worth of cryptocurrency thanks to a bridge attack.

We’ve all been there: On your way home after a boozy night on the town, you realize you’ve mistaken a USB drive that contains the names, addresses, birthdays, and tax-related information of every person in your city. Never happened to you? Well, a contractor in Amagasaki, Japan, was less fortunate. The keeper reported that the unnamed contractor lost a USB drive with sensitive personal data of all 460,000 Amagasaki residents after a night of drinking at a restaurant. While the mistake is certainly embarrassing, hopefully it won’t lead to privacy violations: According to city officials, the data was encrypted and they found no evidence of leaks. Cheers!