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Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used to Be
You were right not to trust hotel and airport Wi-Fi a few years ago. But these days, it's probably fine...
Machine Learning Can Create Fake ‘Master Key’ Fingerprints
Researchers have refined a technique to create so-called DeepMasterPrints: fake fingerprints designed to get past security...
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 Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown...
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...
This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life
A system used by the Dutch city of Rotterdam ranked people based on their risk of fraud. The results were troubling...
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...
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...
A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits
The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, and more of the week’s top security news...
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...
A Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas
A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source...
You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone Again (But Maybe You Shouldn’t)
Apple reintroduced a previously fixed bug in iOS 12.4, which has led to a jailbreak revival...
How a 10-Year-Old Desk Phone Bug Came Back From the Dead
Avaya patched a problem hackers could exploit in phones. But the bad code never went away...
Guardian Firewall iOS App Automatically Blocks the Trackers on Your Phone
The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers...
HTTPS Isn't Always as Secure as It Seems
A surprising number of high-traffic sites have TLS vulnerabilities that are subtle enough for the green padlock to still appear...
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...
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...
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...
Russian Hackers Haven't Stopped Probing the US Power Grid
Researchers warn that utilities hackers don't need to cause blackouts to do damage...
A DJI Bug Exposed Drone Photos and User Data
Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September...
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there...
A New System Is Helping Crack Down on Child Sex Abuse Images
There are 150 child sexual abuse laws around the world. Now, metadata is making it easier for countries to work together...
Microsoft Keeps Failing to Patch a Critical Windows Bug
For the second time in a month, the company issued an update that doesn't fully address a severe security vulnerability in Windows...
Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion
This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them...
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here’s how to tidy up...
The 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Has Taken a Dark Turn
Though social networks have pledged to take more concerted action against it, the theory has continued to spread, inspiring a surge of attacks...
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...
Trump Still Doesn't Believe Russia Hacked the 2016 Election
Trump has publicly played down Russia’s role in the 2016 election. But even privately, he trusts conspiracy theories more than US intelligence agencies...
On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching You
New research shows that over 2,000 streaming apps track information about your devices—even when you tell them not to...
Finally, a Lightning YubiKey to Kill Password Clutter on Your iPhone
First promised back in January, the first YubiKey for iOS will help cut down on painful password clutter starting ... now...
Hackers Stole a Border Agency Database of Traveler Photos
In compromising a Customs and Border Protection subcontractor, hackers make off with photos of travelers and license plates...
Google Will Replace Titan Security Key Over a Bluetooth Flaw
Google will replace any Titan BLE branded security key, after disclosing that a nearby attacker could use it to compromise your accounts...
Hackers Stole $40 Million From Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange
One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges got hit, as thieves nabbed $40 million of bitcoin—along with two-factor user codes and API tokens...
The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet
Even the Central Intelligence Agency has a so-called onion service now...
How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible
With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship...
Huawei's Problem Isn't Chinese Backdoors. It's Buggy Software
A British report finds that Huawei equipment, suspected of including backdoors for China's government, suffers from a lack of "basic engineering competence."...
On the Trail of the Robocall King
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions...
Backstory: An Alphabet Moon Shot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data
Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots...
Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own
The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work...
As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify
From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity...
John Deere Just Cost Farmers Their Right to Repair
The California Farm Bureau has given away the right of farmers to fix their equipment without going through a dealer...
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."...
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...
What the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Reveals About Humankind
The document says less about the search for life in the universe, and more about our current cultural climate and distrust of expertise...
Apple Fixes One of the iPhone's Most Pressing Security Risks
By hardening iMessage in iOS 14, the company has effectively cut off what had been an increasingly popular line of attack...
The SolarWinds Investigation Ramps Up
Plus: Covid-19 contact tracing privacy, a Nissan source code leak, and more of the week's top security news...
Zoom Security Gets a Boost With Keybase Acquisition
Plus: A GoDaddy breach, a ransomware attack, and more of the week's top security news...
Alleged Russian Hacker Behind $100 Million Evil Corp Indicted
The US is charging Maksim Yakubets over two of the biggest cybertheft campaigns of the last decade, and offers a record reward for information on the case...
Shh! No Hacking the Census in the Library
Opinion: Millions of folks filling out the 2020 Census on public library computers also are putting themselves at risk...
The Weird, Dark History of 8chan and Its Founder Fredrick Brennan
Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption...