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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...
How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."...
Watch Out for Coronavirus Phishing Scams
At least one email campaign is preying on fears by claiming to offer info about the Wuhan coronavirus...
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...
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...
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...
Want Apple Card’s Security Benefits? Just Use Apple Pay
Apple says Apple Card offers "a new level" of security, but nearly all those protections are already available if you use Apple Pay...
Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms
The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets...
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...
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs...
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...
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...
Radiohead Gets ‘Hacked,’ a T-Mobile/Sprint Hiccup, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
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...
The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free...
Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory...
The Worst Hacks of 2018: Marriott, Atlanta, Quora, and More
From the Marriott and Facebook meltdowns to state-sponsored assaults, 2018 was an eventful year for cybercrime...
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...
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."...
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...
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...
Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia
Amnezia, a free virtual private network, allows users to set up their own servers, making it harder for Moscow to block this portal to the outside world...
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...
Hackers Accessed Security Cameras Inside Tesla and Beyond
Plus: A Molson-Coors hack, Github controversy, and more of the week's top security news...
The Untold History of America’s Zero-Day Market
The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now...
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...
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...
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...
Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them vulnerable to attack...
Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts
A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Paul Manafort Is Bad at Basic Tech, From Passwords to PDFs
The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security...
Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy
Australia has passed a law that would require companies to weaken their encryption, a move that could reverberate globally...
A 'Scarily Simple' Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers at Risk
The most straightforward insecurities can sometimes be the riskiest...
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...
Facebook Had Years to Fix Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data
Software makers can’t catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature...
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...