Toby Geeks Out!

Following up on my last post — this one is specifically about fake AI browser extensions. Dark Reading paints a scenario that is pretty unsettling.

"The employee opens a CRM system containing customer names, contact details, and transaction history. They click 'Summarize.' Behind the scenes: The extension reads the page content, that content is transmitted to attacker-controlled servers, a summary is returned, and the full dataset may be retained remotely."

That plays out 260,000 times over. Do your research before installing any AI extension.

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Toby Overstreet is a curious mind who has been blogging on and off since 2004 and still hasn't figured out how to stop. He launched Toby Geeks Out! as a space to share his honest, unfiltered takes on whatever has his attention that week. Whether he's documenting the latest technological shift, diving into neurodivergence topics, or exploring a wide variety of new subjects, Toby loves to follow his curiosity wherever it leads. He writes for the sheer joy of discovery and the satisfaction of making a complicated topic feel like a conversation. He lives in a tiny house in Kentucky, where he can usually be found reading, working on an adult coloring book, watching something new on streaming, or quietly eyeing a LEGO set he has no room for.