Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars...

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website

A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web...

AI in the 2026 Midterm Elections

We are nearly one year out from the 2026 midterm elections, and it's far too early to predict the outcomes. But it's a safe bet that artificial intelligence technologies will once again be a major storyline. The widespread fear that AI would be used to manipulate the 2024 US election seems rather...

Iranian Hackers Tried to Give Hacked Trump Campaign Emails to Dems

Plus: The FBI dismantles the largest-ever China-backed botnet, the DOJ charges two men with a $243 million crypto theft, Apple’s MacOS Sequoia breaks cybersecurity tools, and more...

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

Gutted of civil rights protections by Democrats to woo pro-business Republicans, the American Privacy Rights Act was pulled from a key congressional hearing—and appears unlikely to receive a full vote...

New German Government is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors

I hope this is true: According to Jens Zimmermann, the German coalition negotiations had made it "quite clear" that the incoming government of the Social Democrats SPD, the Greens and the business-friendly liberal FDP would reject "the weakening of encryption, which is being attempted under the...

The Weird Partisan Math of Vote-by-Mail

Research says that expanding mail-in voting doesn’t help Democrats. So why are Republicans so afraid of it?...

After Whistle-Blower, House Democrats Chart a Course for Trump's Impeachment

An eventful week on Capitol Hill is only the beginning of a very long road...

Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump

Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder...

House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks

The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into President Trump includes the now defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans...

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Accuses Georgia Democrats of Hacking

Georgia's secretary of state is also its GOP gubernatorial candidate. And he just claimed that Democrats committed "cyber crimes."...

Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm

News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...

Justice Department Indicts 12 Russian Nationals Tied to 2016 Election Hacking

The United States Justice Department on Friday announced 12 indictments against Russian nationals, accusing them of engaging in a “sustained effort” to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. According to Rod Rosenstein, United States deputy Attorney General, all 12 defendants are members o...

socialistsanddemocrats.eu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-418256 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| socialistsanddemocrats.eu Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Preventi...

Trump Fires FBI Director Over Clinton Probe, Amid Russia Investigation

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI who was leading an investigation into alleged links between Trump and Russia. The White House announced on Tuesday that Comey was fired on the "clear recommendation" of Deputy Attorney...

my.democrats.org XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://my.democrats.org/page/s?source=esheadline19888%5C%22%29%3Balert%28%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27%29%2f%2f168%26subsource%3D Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa...

archive.democrats.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-57329 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| archive.democrats.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention...

Another Cybersecurity Bill Runs Into Trouble on Capitol Hill

A U.S. Senator’s bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens’ privacy. The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private...

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech Last week, Hackers posted on the internet the private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including the numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on government web sites. Hacker groups Anonymous and...