Welcome to The Optery Dispatch — a newsletter delivering the latest insights on threat intelligence and proactive cybersecurity strategy. In Issue #9, published January 26, 2026, we cover: Data Privacy Week 2026: Reducing Personal Data Exposure and Preventing Exploitation Privacy should be treated as a core security control to limit attacker intelligence and prevent targetingContinue reading "Data Privacy Week Essentials, The Rising Abuse of Google Tasks SaaS Workflows, & Fake Calendar Invites Increasing the Attack Surface."

It’s Data Privacy Week 2026. To mark the occasion, we’re sharing some tips to help you stay more private and better protect yourself from the dangers of personal data exploitation. Whether it takes the form of phishing, smishing, vishing, password cracking, impersonation, identity fraud, Account Takeover (ATO), or Business Email Compromise (BEC), the weaponization of personalContinue reading "Data Privacy Week 2026: Reducing Personal Data Exposure and Preventing Exploitation"

Contributor note: This article incorporates expert input from data broker researcher Jeff Jockisch If you’re overwhelmed by spam texts and calls and wondering, “Why is this happening to me, and what can I do to stop it?” this article is for you. The real reason you get so much spam is because there’s a vastContinue reading "Why You Get So Many Spam Texts and Calls, and What You Can Actually Do About It"

The Optery Global Privacy Control (GPC) Extension, a free and open-source browser tool designed to significantly reduce unwanted tracking and personal data collection, is now available for anyone to use.  What it Does: The Optery GPC browser extension sends a signal to websites you visit, informing them that you do not want your personal informationContinue reading "The Optery Global Privacy Control (GPC) Extension"