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Security, Spoken — 1000 episodes
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A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords
New Jersey's $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter
A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub
Don't Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter
The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
From the Archives: How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jewish Children
The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy
Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users
Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree
Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors
How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs
Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed
The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse
US Bans Kaspersky Software
How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake
OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
A Guide to RCS, Why Apple’s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better
From the Archives: Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
The Fight Against AI Comes to a Foundational Data Set
Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
From the Archives: How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign
Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024
Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought
From the Archives: Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
From the Archives: The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds
From the Archives: DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
From the Archives: The Vampire Bat Is Moving Closer to the US. That’s a Problem
OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
From What's New: A Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Farm Emissions Might Make Things Worse
From Business, Spoken: How AI Could Transform Email
The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
From Science, Spoken: High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It.
Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now
He Trained Crypto Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark Web Drug Market
A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech
Eventbrite Promoted Illegal Opioid Sales to People Searching for Addiction Recovery Help
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
Android 15 Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen
Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers
Internal Emails Show How a Controversial Gun-Detection System Found Its Way to NYC
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics
Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified
Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know
A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
‘ArcaneDoor’ Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak
The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers
The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem
Big Tech Squares Off Against US Spies
Change Healthcare Faces Another Ransomware Threat—and It Looks Credible
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers
It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
How to Protect Yourself (and Your Loved Ones) From AI Scam Calls
A Ghost Ship’s Doomed Journey Through the Gate of Tears
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled
The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
‘Malicious Activity’ Hits the University of Cambridge's Medical School
Julian Assange Won’t Be Extradited to the US Yet
Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Global Spying Rampage
Apple's iMessage Encryption Puts Its Security Practices in the DOJ's Crosshairs
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies
Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Sinking US Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat
The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon's New UFO Report Fails to Answer
The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency
How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change
Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria
Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment
Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US Data—Good Luck
Russia Attacked Ukraine's Power Grid at Least 66 Times to ‘Freeze It Into Submission’
The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways
Ransomware Groups Are Bouncing Back Faster From Law Enforcement Busts
How a Small Iowa Newspaper’s Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory
Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption
Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly
100 Million People Pay Google for Extra Storage. Can It Get Them to Pay More for Smarter AI?
Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far
A Global Police Operation Just Took Down the Notorious LockBit Ransomware Gang
Leak of Russian Threat Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
The Hidden Injustice of Cyberattacks
Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights
‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
A Backroom Deal Looms Over a High-Stakes US Surveillance Fight
Satellite Images Point to Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Health Care Facilities
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
I Stopped Using Passwords. It’s Great—and a Total Mess
Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
The Trial Over Bitcoin’s True Creator Is in Session
The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans' Data Without a Warrant
Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine
Police have Arrested a Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks
Notorious Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Quietly Plotting a Comeback
Ring Will Stop Giving Cops a Free Pass on Warrantless Video Requests
Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool
The Sad Truth of the FTC’s ‘Historic’ Privacy Win
A Flaw in Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data
‘Stablecoins’ Enabled $40 Billion in Crypto Crime Since 2022
How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC's
The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes
Bitcoin ETFs Have Arrived. Here’s Who Stands to Get Rich
Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks
US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak
Lawmakers Are Out for Blood After a Hack of the SEC’s X Account Causes Bitcoin Chaos
The Fight to Unite iPhone and Android Users Is Far From Over
The Worst Hacks of 2023
How to Be More Anonymous Online
Scammers Are Ruining Facebook Marketplace
What It’s Like to Use Apple’s Lockdown Mode
This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy
America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
The Best Password Managers to Secure Your Digital Life
The Race to Fill Crypto’s FTX-Shaped Hole
A Major Ransomware Takedown Suffers a Strange Setback
Tesla Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles Sold in US to Fix an Autopilot Fault
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Ukrainian Telecom
Congress Clashes Over the Future of America’s Global Spy Program
Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Reconstruction
A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
The 23andMe Data Breach Keeps Spiraling
How to Not Get Hacked by a QR Code
When It Comes to January 6 Lawsuits, a Court Splits Donald Trump in Two
Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab
A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill
Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
No, You Don’t Need to Turn Off Apple’s NameDrop Feature in iOS 17
How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private
The Bin Laden Letter Is Being Weaponized by the Far-Right
Inside the Race to Secure Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix
US Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance ‘Abuses’
A Spy Agency Leaked People's Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen
Norway’s Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started
US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers
This New Tool Aims to Keep Terrorism Content Off the Internet
Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
How to Get Facebook Without Ads—if It’s Available for You
The US and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AI
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law
Where the Hell Is X CEO Linda Yaccarino?
Microsoft Does Damage Control With Its New ‘Secure Future Initiative’
The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly
X Banned the Account of a Major Critic. Now He’s Taking It to Court
Joe Biden’s Sweeping New Executive Order Aims to Drag the US Government into the Age of ChatGPT
TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts
Maine Mass Shooting Disinformation Floods Social Media as Suspect Remains at Large
Okta's Latest Security Breach Is Haunted by the Ghost of Incidents Past
A Controversial Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Meets Fresh Scandal
Google Steps Up Its Push to Kill the Password
Citing Hamas, the US Wants to Officially Treat Crypto Anonymity Services as Suspected Money Launderers
Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse
Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad’ Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation
They Supported Air Strike Victims. Then They Were Doxed and Arrested
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control
A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years
How the FTX Thieves Have Tried to Launder Their $400 Million Haul
The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Disinformation on the Israel-Hamas War
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System
The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane
Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open
A New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
Google's New Feature Ensures Your Pixel Phone Hasn't Been Hacked. Here’s How It Works
A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite ‘Offers’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
The Plan to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass
Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time, Nobody Got Sued
Panasonic Warns That Internet-of-Things Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
A New Attack Impacts Major AI Chatbots—and No One Knows How to Stop It
It's Hot Zero-Day Summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft Security Fixes
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'
Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw—a Backdoor
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws
New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data
FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
Silk Road’s Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison
Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
How to Use Discord’s ‘Family Center’ Safety Settings for Your Kids
The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Don't Join Threads—Make Threads Join You
US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a New Chance to Stop It
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
Pornhub Is Being Accused of Illegal Data Collection
How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
How Your New Car Tracks You
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
How a Shady Chinese Firm’s Encryption Chips Got Inside the US Navy, NATO, and NASA
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine
The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines
The Messy US Influence That's Helping Iranians Stay Online
Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
There’s Finally a Way to Secure a Crucial Piece of the Cloud
The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
A Mysterious Group Has Ties to 15 Years of Ukraine-Russia Hacks
Google May Delete Your Old Accounts. Here’s How to Stop It
ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating the App Store and Google Play
A New Lawsuit Puts the Online White Supremacy Pipeline on Trial
The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
A Republican-Led Lawsuit Threatens Critical US Cyber Protections
Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp
A Mysterious New Hacker Group Is Lurking in Ukraine’s Cyberspace
How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
The Data Broker That Targeted Abortion Clinics Landed a US Military Contract
The DOJ Detected the SolarWinds Hack 6 Months Earlier Than First Disclosed
Google Is Rolling Out Password-Killing Tech to All Accounts
Meta Is Trying to Push Attackers to the Brink
With 288 Arrests, Feds Reveal a Widening Dragnet of Dark Web Busts
The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks
A US Bill Would Ban Kids Under 13 From Joining Social Media
Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election
A Security Team Is Turning This Malware Gang’s Tricks Against It
Google’s Authenticator App Just Got a Handy New 2FA Tool
Intel Let Google Cloud Hack Its New Secure Chips and Found 10 Bugs
The Huge 3CX Breach Was Actually 2 Linked Supply Chain Attacks
Chinese Cops Ran Troll Farm and Secret NY Police Station, US Says
How ChatGPT, and Bots Like It, Can Spread Malware
Used Routers Often Come Loaded With Corporate Secrets
Newly Discovered LockBit Mac Ransomware Doesn't Work—Yet
Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations
The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
LinkedIn Will Finally Offer Ways to Verify Your Job
How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager
The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship
The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
The Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
Tor Project’s New Privacy-Focused Browser Lets You Layer a VPN
You’ll Soon Need to Show ID to Watch Porn Online
The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
They Posted Porn on Twitter. German Authorities Called the Cops
North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot
The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
Some Photo-Cropping Apps Are Exposing Your Secrets
The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army
Online Sleuths Untangle the Mystery of the Nord Stream Sabotage
I Got Investigated by the Secret Service. Here's How to Not Be Me
A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn
This Is the New Leader of Russia's Infamous Sandworm Hacking Unit
AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet
Ransomware Attacks Have Entered a ‘Heinous’ New Phase
‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Are Now a $3 Billion Threat
A US Congressman Says the FBI Unlawfully Targeted Him
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
The FBI Just Admitted It Bought U.S. Location Data
The High-Stakes Blame Game in the White House Cybersecurity Plan
The Sketchy Plan to Build a Russian Android Phone
This Hacker Tool Can Pinpoint a DJI Drone Operator’s Exact Location
Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication Change 'Doesn't Make Sense'
Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws
China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors
Ukraine Suffered More Data-Wiping Malware Last Year Than Anywhere, Ever
You Can’t Trust App Developers’ Privacy Claims on Google Play
Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
A New Kind of Bug Spells Trouble for iOS and macOS Security
How to Protect Yourself from Twitter’s 2FA Crackdown
The Political Theater Behind the Bipartisan Data Privacy Push
Russia’s Ransomware Gangs Are Being Named and Shamed
How the US Can Stop Data Brokers' Worst Practices—Right Now
Meet the Creator of North Korean Hackers’ New Favorite Crypto Privacy Service
Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
Inside Safe City, Moscow’s AI Surveillance Dystopia
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Ex-Twitter Workers Puzzle Over Elon Musk’s Abandoned Laptops
Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War
The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack
Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges
The Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet Just Took a Left Turn
You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast—if You Have the Right Shelter
The Unrelenting Menace of the LockBit Ransomware Gang
India’s Public Education App Exposed Millions of Students’ Data
T-Mobile’s $150 Million Security Plan Isn’t Cutting It
Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts
The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
A Widespread Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It
In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat
What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Means
Notorious Russian Spies Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections
WhatsApp Launches Tool to Fight Internet Censorship
The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key
Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
Hands On With Flipper Zero, the Hacker Tool Blowing Up on TikTok
Russia’s Cyberwar Foreshadowed Deadly Attacks on Civilians
Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022
The Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers
Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware
Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account
Hackers Planted Files to Frame an Indian Priest Who Died in Custody
A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
What You Should Know Before Using the Lensa AI App
A Year Later, That Brutal Log4j Vulnerability Is Still Lurking
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups
The Invasive Reach of ‘Digital-by-Default’ Immigration
Android Phone Makers' Encryption Keys Stolen and Used in Malware
Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think
Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats
The US Has a Bomb-Sniffing Dog Shortage
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It
Russia's Sway Over Criminal Ransomware Gangs Is Coming Into Focus
Russia’s New Cyberwarfare in Ukraine Is Fast, Dirty, and Relentless
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is a Scammer’s Paradise
Inside the ‘Election Integrity’ App Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
How to Prepare for the End of Card Payments
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker's $3.36 Bitcoin Stash
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
The 'Viral' Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech
The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
When Your Neighbor Turns You In
If Musk Starts Firing Twitter's Security Team, Run
The Election That Saved the Internet From Russia and China
A Bug in Apple MacOS Ventura Breaks Third-Party Security Tools
A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly
Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer
Ukraine Enters a Dark New Era of Drone Warfare
Your Microsoft Exchange Server Is a Security Liability
This Ransomware Gang Thrives in a Crucial Blind Spot
How the World Will Know If Russia Is Preparing to Launch a Nuke
How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android
The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles
Google’s Pixel 7 Packs a Beefed-Up Security Chip
Meta Says It Has Busted More Than 400 Login-Stealing Apps This Year
Biden’s Privacy Order Slaps a Band-Aid on the EU-US Data Crisis
The Uber Data Breach Conviction Shows Security Execs What Not to Do
The High Cost of Living Your Life Online
The Challenge of Cracking Iran’s Internet Blockade
Cloudflare Takes a Stab at a Captcha That Doesn’t Suck
Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying
The Race to Find the Nord Stream Saboteurs
How to Advocate for Data Privacy and Users' Rights
The Dire Warnings in the Lapsus$ Hacker Joyride
This Chatbot Aims to Steer People Away From Child Abuse Material
VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold
This Vote Could Change the Course of Internet History
Iran’s Internet Shutdown Sparks Fear of a Deadly Cover-Up
Slack and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
A New Linux Tool Aims to Guard Against Supply Chain Attacks
Shadowy Russian Cell Phone Companies Are Cropping Up in Ukraine
Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem
The Deep Roots of Nigeria’s Cybersecurity Problem
The Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself
The Shaky Future of a Post-Roe Federal Privacy Law
Ukraine’s Cyberwar Chief Sounds Like He’s Winning
How Whistleblowers Navigate a Security Minefield
iOS 16 Has Two New Security Features for Worst-Case Scenarios
This Clever Anti-Censorship Tool Lets Russians Read Blocked News
A Windows 11 Automation Tool Can Easily Be Hijacked
Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
It’s Time to Get Real About TikTok’s Risks
The US May Soon Learn What a ‘Kid-Friendly’ Internet Looks Like
Careless Errors in Hundreds of Apps Could Expose Troves of Data
You’re Not Stringer Bell, but You May Still Need a Burner Phone
Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep
The Privacy Flaw Threatening US Democracy
The Low Threshold for Face Recognition in New Delhi
Spyware Hunters Are Expanding Their Toolset
Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll
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A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
Zoom’s Auto-Update Feature Came With Hidden Risks on Mac
Sloppy Software Patches Are a ‘Disturbing Trend’
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An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression
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How to Safely Lend Someone Else Your Phone
Interstate Travel Post Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
Russia Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine
The 2022 US Midterm Elections' Top Security Issue: Death Threats
The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris
Don’t Look Now, but Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill
Instagram Slow to Tackle Bots Targeting Iranian Women’s Groups
The Most Popular Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy
A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
A Privacy Panic Flares Up in India After Police Pull Payment Data
Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?
Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine
How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams
Apple’s Lockdown Mode Aims to Counter Spyware Threats
The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far
End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense
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Google Warns of New Spyware Targeting iOS and Android Users
Here’s Why You’re Still Stuck in Robocall Hell
Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or Worse
The January 6 Hearing Was a Warning
Shanghai’s Censors Can’t Hide Stories of the Dead
Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
How a Saxophonist Tricked the KBG by Encrypting Secrets in Music
Conti's Attack Against Costa Rica Sparks a New Ransomware Era
A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived
Fertility and Period Apps Can Be Weaponized in a Post-Roe World
Disinfo and Hate Speech Flood TikTok Ahead of Kenya’s Elections
AlphaBay Is Taking Over the Dark Web—Again
Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Doesn't Have a Patch
The Fight Against Robocall Spam and Scams Heats Up in India
The Hacker Gold Rush That’s Poised to Eclipse Ransomware
The Race to Hide Your Voice
Good Luck Not Accidentally Hiring a North Korean Scammer
Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
The Surveillance State Is Primed for Criminalized Abortion
US Courts Are Coming After Crypto Exchanges That Skirt Sanctions
The Hidden Race to Protect the US Bioeconomy From Hacker Threats
The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse
The Case for War Crimes Charges Against Russia’s Sandworm Hackers
AMD Gave Google Cloud Rare Access to Its Tech to Hunt Chip Flaws
Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What It Means for You
India’s New Super App Has a Privacy Problem
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google's Search Results
Ukraine’s Digital Battle With Russia Isn’t Going as Expected
Hollywood’s Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones to Access Forbidden Media
Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale
The US Saw a Spike in Child Sexual Abuse URLs in 2021
A $3 Billion Silk Road Seizure Will Erase Ross Ulbricht’s Debt
Netflix Can Cut Off Moochers Without a Password-Sharing Crackdown
Hackers Are Getting Caught Exploiting New Bugs More Than Ever
It Was a Good Month for Fighting Cybercrime. Don't Get Comfortable
WhatsApp Doubles Down With End-to-End Encrypted ‘Communities’
Russia's Sandworm Hackers Attempted a Third Blackout in Ukraine
Feds Uncover a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for Hacking Industrial Control Systems
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Instagram
Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
The Senate Bill That Has Big Tech Scared
How Russia's Invasion Triggered a US Crackdown on Its Hackers
NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare
Blockchains Have a ‘Bridge’ Problem, and Hackers Know It
How Explosions Actually Kill
Researchers Used a Decommissioned Satellite to Broadcast Hacker TV
Leaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta’s Slow Response Look More Bizarre
A Sinister Way to Beat Multifactor Authentication Is on the Rise
Forcing WhatsApp and iMessage to Work Together Is Doomed to Fail
Stop Tracking Your Loved Ones
The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain
Feds Allege Destructive Russian Hackers Targeted US Refineries
The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’
The Third-Party Okta Hack Leaves Customers Scrambling
A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine
The Big, Baffling Crypto Dreams of a $180 Million Ransomware Gang
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Twitter
The Enduring Danger of Cluster Bombs
Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows
The Workaday Life of the World’s Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
Chinese Spies Hacked a Livestock App to Breach US State Networks
Critical Bugs Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Medical Devices and ATMs
How Police Abuse Phone Data to Persecute LGBTQ People
How Ukraine's Internet Can Fend Off Russian Attacks
Hacktivists Stoke Pandemonium Amid Russia’s War in Ukraine
Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald's for $900 Million
Russia's Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls
The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing
Meanie in a Bottle: An Internet Troll Gives Nonalcoholic Spirits Startups the Spins
Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory
An ‘Unhinged’ Putin Threatens Dangerous Escalation in Ukraine War
Inside the Lab Where Intel Tries to Hack Its Own Chips
How to Use Google Chrome's Enhanced Safety Mode2/28
An Optical Spy Trick Can Turn Any Shiny Object Into a Bug
US Agencies Say Russian Hackers Compromised Defense Contractors
Twitter Has Started Blocking Porn in Germany
Is Firefox Okay?
Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info
Are You Being Tracked by an AirTag? Here’s How to Check
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Huge Win for Security
Playing With Crypto? You’ll Need a Wallet (or Several)
The DOJ's $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto
Cryptocurrency Is Funding Ukraine's Defense—and Its Hacktivists
The Alt-Right on Facebook Are Hijacking Canada’s Trucker Blockade
An Insidious Mac Malware Is Growing More Sophisticated
Health Sites Let Ads Track Visitors Without Telling Them
Out-of-Control Cybercrime Will Cause More Real-World Harm
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
Inside Trickbot, Russia’s Notorious Ransomware Gang
Welcome to the Burner Phone Olympics
Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad
Safari Flaws Exposed Webcams, Online Accounts, and More
Why the Belarus Railways Hack Marks a First for Ransomware
Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Recovery Email Addresses
Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
A Bug in iOS 15 Is Leaking User Browsing Activity in Real Time
Destructive Hacks Against Ukraine Echo Its Last Cyberwar
'Zero-Click’ Zoom Vulnerabilities Could Have Exposed Calls
Russia Takes Down REvil Hackers—as Ukraine Tensions Mount
How Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Keep You Safe
NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador
North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400 Million in Crypto Last Year
Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World
How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report
The FTC Wants Companies to Find Log4j Fast. It Won't Be So Easy
Signal's Cryptocurrency Feature Has Gone Worldwide
Hackers Are Exploiting a Flaw Microsoft Fixed 9 Years Ago
The Next Wave of Log4J Attacks Will Be Brutal
6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet
The Worst Hacks of 2021
Meta Removes 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms
How to Guard Against Smishing Attacks on Your Phone
Google Warns That NSO Hacking Is on Par Elite Nation State Spies
The Log4J Vulnerability Will Haunt the Internet for Years
The Biggest Deepfake Abuse Site Is Growing in Disturbing Ways
‘The Internet Is on Fire’
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by a Chinese Hacking Group
A Year After the SolarWinds Hack, Supply Chain Threats Still Loom
Russia’s Internet Censorship Machine Is Going After Tor
Researchers Have a Method to Spot Reddit’s State-Backed Trolls
NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones
Facebook Will Force More At-Risk Accounts to Use Two-Factor
A Bunch of Malicious Google Play Apps Stole User Banking Info
A Software Bug Let Hackers Drain $31M From a Crypto Service
The McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Watering Hole Attack?
A Hacking Spree Against Iran Spills Out Into the Physical World
Iranian Hackers Are Going After US Critical Infrastructure
Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ Runners Are Hacking Their Treadmills
How Iran Tried to Undermine the 2020 US Presidential Election
DuckDuckGo Wants to Stop Apps From Tracking You on Android
‘Ghostwriter’ Looked Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It's Not
Another Intel Chip Flaw Puts a Slew of Gadgets at Risk
Hackers Targeted Apple Devices in Hong Kong for Widespread Attack
The Sneaky Way TikTok Is Connecting You to Real-Life Friends
The Biggest Ransomware Bust Yet Might Actually Make an Impact
A Drone Tried to Disrupt the Power Grid. It Won't Be the Last
Ignore China’s New Data Privacy Law at Your Peril
1.8TB of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage Leaks Online
How to Use iCloud+'s New Security Features
How a Squid Game Crypto Scam Got Away With Millions
An Apparent Ransomware Hack Puts the NRA in a Bind
Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have to Do It Again
Dark Web Drug Busts Lead to 150 Arrests
This AI Predicts How Old Children Are. Can It Keep Them Safe?
11 Security Settings You Should Know About in Windows 11
New Sex Toy Standards Let Some Sensitive Details Slide
How Hackers Hijacked Thousands of High-Profile YouTube Accounts
Missouri Threatens to Sue a Reporter Who Flagged a Security Flaw
A Telegram Bot Told Iranian Hackers When They Got a Hit
Telegram Is Becoming a Cesspool of Anti-Semitic Content
Cloudflare Isn't Liable for Sites That Hawk Counterfeits
How to Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account
How to Get Your Family to Actually Use a Password Manager
A Devastating Twitch Hack Sends Streamers Reeling
Hundreds of Scam Apps Hit Over 10 Million Android Devices
A Simple Bug Is Leaving AirTag Users Vulnerable to an Attack
Why James Bond Doesn’t Use an iPhone
How a Secret Google Geofence Warrant Helped Catch the Capitol Riot Mob
He Escaped the Dark Web's Biggest Bust. Now He's Back
The iOS 15 Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now
Apple and Google Go Further Than Ever to Appease Russia
How to Set Up a NAS to Securely Share Files
A New App Helps Iranians Hide Messages in Plain Sight
Anonymous Leaked a Bunch of Data From a Right-Wing Web Host
You Can Now Ditch the Password on Your Microsoft Account
LA Police Are Collecting Detainees' Social Media Information
What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear
How to Find the Hidden Files on Your Phone or Computer
WhatsApp Fixes Its Biggest Encryption Loophole
The Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host
ProtonMail Amends Its Policy After Giving Up an Activist’s Data
What Apple Can Do Next to Fight Child Sexual Abuse
38M Records Were Exposed Online—Including Contact-Tracing Info
What It'll Take to Get Power Back in New Orleans After Hurricane Ida
6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked
A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'
The Stealthy iPhone Hacks That Apple Still Can't Stop
Hackers Could Increase Medication Doses Through Infusion Pump Flaws
Google Docs Scams Still Pose a Threat
China Aims Its Propaganda Firehose at the BBC
How to Send Messages That Automatically Disappear
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing
How the Far Right Exploded on Steam and Discord
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools
A 5G Shortcut Leaves Phones Exposed to Stingray Surveillance
What You Should Know About the Google Play Store Changes
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It
Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops
Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem
France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?
Hospitals Still Use Pneumatic Tubes—and They Can Be Hacked
A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting
Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites
The Shapeshifting Cam Girl Rewriting the Rules of Digital Porn
The Kaseya Ransomware Nightmare Is Almost Over
An Explosive Spyware Report Shows the Limits of iOS Security
Venmo Gets More Private—but It's Still Not Fully Safe
How China's Hacking Entered a Reckless New Phase
Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam
Cuba’s Social Media Blackout Reflects an Alarming New Normal
Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets
Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites
WhatsApp Has a Secure Fix for One of Its Biggest Drawbacks
Beyond Kaseya: Everyday IT Tools Can Offer ‘God Mode’ for Hackers
An Office Phone Flaw Can’t Be Fixed By Cisco Alone
A New System Is Helping Crack Down on Child Sex Abuse Images
How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private
Europe Makes the Case to Ban Biometric Surveillance
Echo Dots Store a Wealth of Data—Even After You Reset Them
The Unfixed Flaw at the Heart of REvil’s Ransomware Spree
How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once
A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
Why the Password Isn't Dead Quite Yet
Russian Hackers Are Trying to Brute-Force Hundreds of Networks
Windows 11’s Security Push Puts Microsoft on a Collision Course
SolarWinds Hackers Continue Assault With a New Microsoft Breach
What the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Reveals About Humankind
The US Takedown of Iranian Media Sites Extends a Thorny Precedent
A Well-Meaning Feature Leaves Millions of Dell PCs Vulnerable
NFC Flaws Let Researchers Hack ATMs by Waving a Phone
All the Ways Amazon Tracks You—and How to Stop It
A New Tool Wants to Save Open Source From Supply Chain Attacks
As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Companies Keep Paying Out
The FBI's Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate
Apple Says It's Time to Digitize Your ID, Ready or Not
What You Should Know About Voilá, the Latest Viral Selfie App
The Safest Way to Store and Share Your Nudes
Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm—and 70GB of Data Leaked
How an Obscure Company Took Down Big Chunks of the Internet
How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware
Microsoft’s Vote Tracking Software Clears a Major Hurdle
Ransomware Hits a Food Supply Giant—and Underscores a Dire Threat
The SolarWinds Hackers Aren't 'Back.' They Never Went Away
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Supply Chain Attack?
Apple's M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
Blurry Satellite Images of Palestine and Israel Make Rebuilding Harder
Goodbye Internet Explorer—and Good Riddance
How to Avoid Those Infuriating Cookie Pop-Ups
How to Avoid App Store Scams
Ransomware's Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data
The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware
DarkSide Ransomware Hit Colonial Pipeline—and Created an Unholy Mess
How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme
WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy Just Kicked In. Here’s What You Need to Know
What's Google FLoC? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
I’m Not a Robot! So Why Won’t Captchas Believe Me?
Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Google's Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies Is Crumbling
An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Ransomware Faces Long Odds
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You—So Do It
AirDrop Is Leaking Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Hackers Used ‘Mind-Blowing’ Bug to Sneak Past macOS Safeguards
VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster
Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion
A Clubhouse Bug Let People Lurk in Rooms Invisibly
Palestinian Hackers Tricked Victims Into Installing iOS Spyware
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
The Biggest Security Threats to the US Are the Hardest to Define
100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won't Be the Last
US Sanctions on Russia Rewrite Cyberespionage's Rules
The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree
Facebook Had Years to Fix the Flaw That Leaked 500M Users' Data
Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
A Far-Right Extremist Allegedly Plotted to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers
Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform
Hackers Are Exploiting Discord and Slack Links to Serve Up Malware
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency
The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
The Threat to the Water Supply Is Real—and Only Getting Worse
How to Keep Nearby Strangers from Sending You Files
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs
‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats
The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack
A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks an SEC First
With Spectre Still Lurking, Google Looks to Protect the Web
Facebook's ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Beyond the Social Network's Walls
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not by Hackers
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia—and Other Countries Will Take Note
The UK Is Secretly Testing a Controversial Web Snooping Tool
Netflix's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has a Silver Lining
How to Export Your Passwords From LastPass
It’s Open Season for Microsoft Exchange Hacks
Gab's CTO Introduced a Critical Vulnerability to the Site
‘Retaliation’ for Russia's SolarWinds Spying Isn't the Answer
Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
The Accellion Breach Keeps Getting Worse—and More Expensive
Privacy-First Browser Brave Is Launching a Search Engine
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
China and Russia's Spying Sprees Will Take Years to Unpack
Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
Twitch's First Transparency Report Is Here—and Long Overdue
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Explosive Growth
Hackers Tied to Russia's GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years, Researchers Warn
China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool in 2014—and Used It for Years
Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security
Malware Is Now Targeting Apple’s New M1 Processor
Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With a Ransomware Attack—and Won't Pay Up
Feds Indict North Korean Hackers for Years of Heists and Scams
A Windows Defender Vulnerability Lurked Undetected for 12 Years
France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree
Parler Says It's Back
A Barcode Scanner App With Millions of Downloads Goes Rogue
Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Spread Under Facebook and Telegram's Watch
A Coordinated Takedown Targets 'OGUser' Account Thieves
Gaming Sites Are Still Letting Streamers Profit From Hate
Why ‘Inside Job’ Zoombombs Are So Hard to Stop
A Second SolarWinds Hack Deepens Third-Party Software Fears
Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel
Apple Fixes One of the iPhone's Most Pressing Security Risks
Cops Disrupt Emotet, the Internet's ‘Most Dangerous Malware’
This Encrypted Gun Registry Might Bridge a Partisan Divide
Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone
Fleeing WhatsApp for Better Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram
North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros
Parler Finds a Reprieve in Russia—but Not a Solution
Chrome and Edge Want to Help Solve Your Password Problems
The Truth About North Korea's Ultra-Lockdown Against Covid-19
The SolarWinds Hackers Used Tactics Other Groups Will Copy
Big Tech Can’t Ban Its Way Out of This
This Site Published Every Face from Parler's Capitol Riot Videos
Anti-Secrecy Activists Publish a Trove of Ransomware Victims' Data
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption
The SolarWinds Hackers Shared Tricks With a Notorious Russian Spy Group
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually
Ticketmaster Pays Up for Hacking a Rival Company
How Amazon Sidewalk Works—and Why You May Want to Turn It Off
Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess
The UK Denies Julian Assange's Extradition, Citing Suicide Risk
Ransomware Is Headed Down a Dire Path
The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year
How Your Digital Trails Wind Up in the Police’s Hands
6 Privacy-Focused Alternatives to the Apps You Use Every Day
Apple's App 'Privacy Labels' Are Here—and a Big Step Forward
No One Knows How Deep Russia's Hacking Rampage Goes
The Biden Administration Will Have Its Hands Full With Russia
A Massive Fraud Operation Stole Millions From Online Bank Accounts
2020 Shows the Danger of a Decapitated Cyber Regime
How to Understand the Russia Hack Fallout
The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube's Radicalization Trap
Hold Everything: Stormtroopers Have Discovered Tactics
Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms
This ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range
The Internet’s Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick
Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’
A Broken Piece of Internet Backbone Might Finally Get Fixed
7 Simple Ways to Make Your Android Phone More Secure
Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not
Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
Ghostery’s New Search Engine Will Be Entirely Ad-Free
By the Way, Donald Trump Could Still Launch Nuclear Weapons at Any Time
Telegram Still Hasn’t Removed an AI Bot That’s Abusing Women
Forget Imposters. Among Us Is a Playground for Hackers
Microsoft Is Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help
The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield
7 Simple Tech Tips to Keep Your Family Safe This Holiday
The OS Big Sur Launch Might Have Slowed Down Macs Everywhere
How to Use Parental Controls in Your Google, Apple, and Microsoft Account
The FBI Says ‘Boogaloo’ Extremists Bought 3D-Printed Machine Gun Parts
WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It
An Engineer Gets 9 Years for Stealing $10M From Microsoft
The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud
Feds Seize $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
WhatsApp Is Adding Disappearing Messages—With Some Limits
Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
The US Sanctions Russians For Potentially ‘Fatal’ Triton Malware
11/6 All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It
How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
The Russian Hackers Playing 'Chekov's Gun' With US Infrastructure
A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
Twitter's 'Hacked Materials' Rule Tries to Thread an Impossible Needle
Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
A Trickbot Assault Shows US Military Hackers' Growing Reach
Researchers Found 55 Flaws in Apple's Corporate Network
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy
Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot
How Google's Android Keyboard Keeps ‘Smart Replies’ Private
A Poker Pro Accused of Cheating Wants $330M in Damages
A China-Linked Group Repurposed Hacking Team’s Stealthy Spyware
Facebook Shut Down Malware That Hijacked Accounts to Run Ads
The Strangest Election Scenario Runs Through Georgia
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain
The Best Chrome Extensions to Prevent Creepy Web Tracking
A Tip From a Kid Helped Uncover a Slew of Scam Apps
CryptoHarlem’s Founder Warns Against ‘Digital Stop and Frisk'
The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown
Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere
Gen Z Has a Plan to Save the Election—Starting With the Polls
A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital
CBP Seized OnePlus Buds as ‘Counterfeit’ AirPods. Now It's Doubling Down
The Safest Ways to Log In to Your Computer
The Best Privacy-Friendly Alternatives to Google Maps
Russia's Fancy Bear Hackers Are Hitting US Campaign Targets Again
A Critical Flaw Is Affecting Thousands of WordPress Sites
How to Boost WhatsApp’s Privacy and Better Protect Your Data
Julian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition
The Trump Administration Continues to Erode Election Security
A DHS Official Says He Was Punished for Not Pushing Trump's Agenda
Kids' Smartwatches Are a Security Nightmare Despite Years of Warnings
The FBI Botched Its DNC Hack Warning in 2016—but Says It Won’t Next Time
Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on MacOS
A Former Uber Exec's Indictment Is a Warning Shot
Porn Sites Still Won’t Take Down Nonconsensual Deepfakes
How to Protect the Data on Your Laptop
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers
Ransomware Has Gone Corporate. Where Will It End?
Firefox Launched a New Android App to Lure Users From Chrome
A Tesla Employee Thwarted an Alleged Ransomware Plot
How WeChat Censored the Coronavirus Pandemic
How Four Brothers Allegedly Fleeced $19 Million From Amazon
‘DiceKeys’ Creates a Master Password for Life With One Roll
Tired of Gmail? Try a Privacy-First Email Provider
How Financial Apps Get You to Spend More and Question Less
Steve Bannon, a $25M Border Wall Campaign, and a GoFundMe Gone Bad
ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks
An Alexa Bug Could Have Exposed Your Voice History to Hackers
How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
Over a Billion Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft
The Subtle Tricks Shopping Sites Use to Make You Spend More
An '80s File Format Enabled Stealthy Mac Hacking
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets
The Quest to Liberate $300K of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File
Decades-Old Email Flaws Could Let Attackers Mask Their Identities
How the Alleged Twitter Hackers Got Caught
How to Spot—and Avoid—Dark Patterns on the Web
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
AI Helped Uncover Chinese Boats Hiding in North Korean Waters
Children Stream on Twitch—Where Potential Predators Find Them
A Cyberattack on Garmin Disrupted More Than Workouts
Russia's GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets
Apple's Hackable iPhones Are Finally Here
Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting
Twitter Cracks Down on QAnon. Your Move, Facebook
Russia's Latest Hacking Target: Covid-19 Vaccine Projects
A New Map Shows the Inescapable Creep of Surveillance
‘DDoS-For-Hire’ Is Fueling a New Wave of Attacks
Hack Brief: Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old ‘Wormable’ Bug
Google Moves to Secures the Cloud From Itself
Microsoft Halts a Global Fraud Campaign That Targeted CEOs
The Super Smash Bros. Community Reckons With Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Amazon Bans Employees From Using TikTok on Their Phones
The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2020 So Far
DoNotPay Unsubscribes You From Spam—and Tries to Get You Paid
Hong Kong's Security Law Puts Big Tech at a Crossroads
Looks Like Russian Hackers Are on an Email Scam Spree
Hack Brief: Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug in Networking Equipment
Schools Already Struggled With Cybersecurity. Then Came Covid-19
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Google Will Delete Your Data by Default—in 18 Months
Security News This Week: Julian Assange Faces New Conspiracy Allegations
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Side Channel Attack?
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A Report Blames ‘CIA Failures’ for the Agency's Worst Hack
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About
Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in World of Warcraft Classic
Body Cameras Haven't Stopped Police Brutality. Here's Why
A Legion of Bugs Puts Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk
Ex-Ebay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics
Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance
How To Stop Instagram From Tracking Everything You Do
Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations
Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zombie App Permissions
Georgia’s Failure Shows How Not to Run an Election in the Pandemic
IoT Security Is a Mess. Privacy 'Nutrition' Labels Could Help
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The Police's Military Tactics Turn Peaceful Protests Violent