Mental Health
Meta & YouTube Found Negligent: A Turning Point for Big Tech?
Tom Eston | | Age Verification, Algorithm Addiction, Behavioral Data Tracking, Big Tech Accountability, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Jury Verdict, Kids And Technology, machine learning, Mental Health, Meta, Platform Liability, Podcast, Privacy, Section 230, social media, surveillance, The Social Dilemma, Weekly Edition, YouTube
A landmark jury verdict has found Meta and YouTube negligent in a social media addiction case, raising major questions about platform accountability and legal protections under Section 230. This episode covers the ...
Why Gen Z is Ditching Smartphones for Dumbphones
Tom Eston | | cloud storage, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Detox, Digital Minimalism, Digital Ownership, Digital Privacy, Doom Scrolling, Dumb Phones, Episodes, Gen Z, Information Security, Infosec, Mental Health, mobile devices, Multifactor Authentication, Nostalgia, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Retro Technology, Screen Time, security, smartphones, social media, Tech Burnout, technology, Technology Trade-offs, Weekly Edition
Younger generations are increasingly ditching smartphones in favor of “dumbphones”—simpler devices with fewer apps, fewer distractions, and less tracking. But what happens when you step away from a device that now functions ...
Parental Alienation: The Hidden War That Breaks Families
Steve | | child psychology, emotional abuse, family estrangement, family trauma, grief, healing after estrangement, hope, Mental Health, Parental Alienation, parental rights, reconciliation, Resilience
When Family Love Becomes a Battleground For most of my adult life, I worked in cybersecurity—an industry built on defending systems from outside attack. Never did I expect that the gravest challenge ...
Living with Parental Alienation: My Daily Reality
Steve | | Adult Children, Child Custody, Coping Strategies, Court System, Divorce, Family Law, Father's Rights, Mental Health, Parental Alienation, Trauma Recovery
Every family has its private pain, but some wounds run deeper than what the world sees on the surface. For over a decade, parental alienation has shaped not just my relationship with ...
The Silent Epidemic: Parental Alienation, Family Court Failure, and a Father’s Fight for Justice
Steve | | Child Custody, Children’s Rights, Court System Dysfunction, Divorce, Family Law, Father's Rights, Mental Health, Parental Alienation, Psychological Manipulation, Trauma Recovery
A Cybersecurity Leader's Deeply Personal Journey Through the Dark World of Parental Alienation When Love Becomes a Weapon Fourteen years ago, I thought the hardest part of my divorce would be dividing ...
Cybersecurity Worker Burnout Costing Businesses Big
The constant vigilance required to protect against evolving threats, and the sheer volume of routine tasks that demand attention contribute significantly to burnout ...
Security Boulevard
Content Creation, Mental Health in Cyber, The MGM Ransomware Attack
Tom Eston | | Content Creation, Content Creator, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Matt Johansen, Mental Health, MGM, Orign Story, Podcast, Podcaster, podcasting, Podcasts, Privacy, Ransom, Ransomware, ransomware attack, security, Security Twits, Shmoocon, technology, Twitter, Vulnerable U, Weekly Edition, X, YouTube
In this episode Matt Johansen, Security Architect at Reddit and Vulnerable U newsletter and YouTube content creator, joins host Tom Eston to discuss Matt’s background as one of the original “Security Twits”, ...
How CISOs Can Foster Positive Mental Health in Cybersecurity
CISOs work in a stressful field that changes on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. The weight of the world is on their shoulders—externally, because of security threats to their organizations, and internally, ...
Security Boulevard
Twitter’s Paywall 2FA, Mental Health Data for Sale, Meta’s Verified Program
Tom Eston | | 2fa, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, Mental Health, Meta, Meta Verified, Multi-Factor Authentication, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, technology, Twitter, Twitter Blue, two factor authentication, Weekly Edition, WhatsApp
Twitter is phasing out its free text message two-factor authentication (2FA) and putting the feature behind a paywall, prompting security experts to advise Twitter users to switch to other authentication methods. How ...
Your Mental Health Data for Sale or Rent — 20¢
Richi Jennings | | Data Brokers, GDPR, health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare, HIPAA, Mental Health, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
U.S. GDPR ASAP: Data brokers are selling PII about mental health conditions—depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, etc ...
Security Boulevard

