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Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
Plus: Apple sends out an “unprecedented” number of spyware warnings, Ukraine hits a Russian ecommerce giant with cyber and drone attacks, and more...
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...
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...
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’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...
Cops Take Down the ‘World’s Biggest' Video Game Cheat Ring
Plus: North Korean hackers, a rogue tweet, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
Clearview AI's Massive Client List Got Hacked
Clever malware, student surveillance, 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...
How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn't
Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won't make you as invisible as it might sound...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
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...
Email Scammers Ditch Wire Transfers for iTunes Gift Cards
Business email compromise attacks are increasingly targeting nonprofits, and bilking them for iTunes gift cards...
How Would NYC's Anti-AirDrop Dick Pic Law Even Work?
The bill's sponsors want cyber flashers to face the same consequences as their offline counterparts, but there are technical and legal hurdles...
The US Leans on Private Firms to Expose Foreign Hackers
Opinion: The government needs to step up in calling out cyber-attackers. Otherwise, we risk playing into their hands...
Why Cops Can Use Face ID to Unlock Your iPhone
For the first publicly documented time, law enforcement has used Face ID to forcibly unlock someone's iPhone. It won't be the last...
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario...
What Is a Supply Chain Attack?
From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon...
2034, Part I: Peril in the South China Sea
“We've got a ship in duress that hasn't sent out a distress signal. Something doesn't add up.”...
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...
Robert Mueller's Testimony: What Congress Needs to Know
Here’s what members of Congress should know before they question the former special counsel...
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...
Google DLP Makes It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves
Google's Data Loss Prevention tool finds and redacts sensitive data in the cloud. A new user interface makes now makes it more broadly accessible...
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...
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...
The US Didn’t Sign the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
Corporations have taken the lead over nations on governing the internet: The initiative might not have counted the US as a signatory, but did include Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others...
Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac
By only checking a file's code signature when you install it—and never again—macOS gives malware a chance to evade detection indefinitely...
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...
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown...
Google Gets Serious About Two-Factor Authentication. Good!
The tech giant wants to push its billions of users—and the rest of the industry—to enable multifactor authentication by default...
The Truth About North Korea’s Ultra-Lockdown Against Covid-19
The country has turned inward more than ever, leaving the true impact of the pandemic a mystery...
Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone
Zombie versions of Adobe’s troubled software can still cause problems in systems around the world...
The Race Is On to Identify and Stop Inauguration Rioters
As tech companies scramble to tackle the extreme far-right, police and law enforcement are encasing Washington, DC, in a ring of steel...
Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware
The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made...
A Hacking Spree, a Fight for Open Internet, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
DOJ Indicts 2 Iranian Hackers for Harmful SamSam Ransomware
A string of attacks hobbled the city of Atlanta, multiple hospitals, and more. The feds now think they know who did it...
Pentagon Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds
A new report says the Department of Defense "likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity."...
How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Their Victims Up Close
A new indictment details how Russian agents camped outside hotels when remote hacking efforts weren't enough...
Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones
The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly...
The FBI’s Director Compares Ransomware Threat to 9/11
Plus, a Supreme Court decision on a controversial anti-hacking law, a WhatsApp walk-back, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened...
Microsoft Will Soon Kill Flash on Windows 10 for Good
Plus: A Peloton data leak, Russian hacker details, and more of the week’s top security news...