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An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses...
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...
Russian Hackers Haven't Stopped Probing the US Power Grid
Researchers warn that utilities hackers don't need to cause blackouts to do damage...
Forging a Relationship With Tyler Barriss, the Internet’s Most Hated Swatter
Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes...
Facebook Wins, Facebook Losses, and More Security News This Week
The Facebook breach, 3-D printed guns on Broadway, and more security news this week...
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is...
International Operation Knocks Notorious REvil Group Offline
Plus: Data theft in Argentina, a Sinclair Broadcast Group hack, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Latest Pro-Trump Twitter Clone Leaks User Data on Day 1
Plus: A failed takedown in Russia, details on an FBI-sting encrypted phone, and more of the week's top security news...
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters
The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications...
Robert Mueller Speaks, Amazon’s New Echo Show, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Watch Robert Mueller’s Statement on the Russia Investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public remarks since the release of his report in April...
Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Very Bad Sign
A very bad vulnerability in Windows XP could have serious ramifications, even with a patch...
How Zello Became a Lifeline for Venezuelans Under Maduro
A dedicated community of Zello moderators uses the voice-chat app to bring news and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis...
Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms
The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets...
Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People
The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall...
1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018
And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League...
How China’s Elite APT10 Hackers Stole the World’s Secrets
A new DOJ indictment outlines how Chinese hackers allegedly compromised data from companies in a dozen countries in a single intrusion...
Midterm Elections 2018: Voting Machine Meltdowns Are Normal—That’s the Problem
Americans watched their voting technology break down right in front of their eyes—or on social media—Tuesday, but it's too soon to tell if the problems reached historic proportions...
The Mysterious Return of Years-Old APT1 Malware
Security researchers have discovered a new instance code associated with APT1, a notorious Chinese hacking group that disappeared in 2013...
How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test
If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround...
Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam
The security researchers used infrared photos and third-party hardware to best Microsoft’s facial-recognition tech...
How to Export Your Passwords From LastPass
The popular security service is severely limiting its free tier starting March 16. If you’d like to move your passwords to another manager, here’s how...
ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks
So-called jackpotting attacks have gotten increasingly sophisticated—while cash machines have stayed pretty much the same...
Elite Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Emails to Set Traps
Plus: A Comcast blunder, a Clearview AI lawsuit, and more of the week's top security news...
FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records
Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week's top security news...
Trump Takes Aim at the 'Open Skies' Cold War Treaty With Russia
The Open Skies treaty has provided invaluable intelligence for its 34 signatory countries. Now Donald Trump reportedly wants out...
Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities
The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security...
Congress Grills Joseph Maguire Over Trump's Whistle-Blower Scandal
Acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire answered Congress's questions about the Ukraine whistle-blower complaint—but not always to satisfaction...
All the Code Connections Between Russia’s Hackers, Visualized
A sort of constellation chart for Kremlin malware, made by two cybersecurity firms, demonstrates the scale of Russia's distinct hacking operations...
The Wrong Way to Talk About the El Paso Shooter's Manifesto
The more oxygen these manifestos get, the wider their messages spread. And no one understands that better than the people posting them...
Magecart Hacker Group Hits 17,000 Domains—and Counting
Magecart hackers are casting the widest possible net to find vulnerable ecommerce sites—but their method could lead to even bigger problems...
Michael Cohen's House Testimony: 5 Key Takeaways from the Prepared Statement
Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight committee tells a new story about Trump and Russia...
US Hackers' Strike on Russian Trolls Sends a Message—but What Kind?
US Cyber Command's takedown of the Internet Research Agency's network may be more about signaling than immediate effects...
The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified...
What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us
The special counsel's indictments have so far stopped short of tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in...
How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election...
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Is Still Calling for an Encryption Backdoor
At a cybercrime conference Thursday, Rod Rosenstein once again decried "going dark."...
DIY Gun Activist Cody Wilson Accused of Child Sexual Assault
A Texas court issued a warrant for the Defense Distributed founder's arrest on Wednesday...
The Collateral Damage of Trump's Extreme Declassifications
Trump has the legal right to make public whatever documents he chooses. But he's going to cause untold damage in the process...
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit...
A Graphic Hamas Video Donald Trump Jr. Shared on X Is Actually Real, Research Confirms
A video posted by Donald Trump Jr. showing Hamas militants attacking Israelis was falsely flagged in a Community Note as being years old, thus making X's disinformation problem worse, not better...
A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
An apparent supply chain attack exploited Kaseya's IT management software to encrypt a "monumental" number of victims all at once...
VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster
Recent spying attacks against Pulse Secure VPN are just the latest example of a long-simmering cybersecurity meltdown...
Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Had 500M Users' Data Scraped
Plus: A bad Zoom bug, a billion-dollar cocaine bust, and more of the week's top security news...
Hackers Accessed Security Cameras Inside Tesla and Beyond
Plus: A Molson-Coors hack, Github controversy, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here’s how to tidy up...
This Government-Subsidized Phone Comes With Malware
The Android devices are a part of the FCC's Lifeline Assistance Program, which makes free or subsidized phones available to millions of low-income users...
Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack...
OpenAI Said Its Code Was Risky. Two Grads Re-Created It Anyway
The artificial intelligence lab cofounded by Elon Musk said its software could too easily be adapted to crank out fake news...
What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its front...