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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...
Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act...
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...
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...
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...
Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware
Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow...
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...
Email Scammers Ditch Wire Transfers for iTunes Gift Cards
Business email compromise attacks are increasingly targeting nonprofits, and bilking them for iTunes gift cards...
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...
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."...
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...
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...
US Agencies Urged to Patch Ivanti VPNs That Are Actively Being Hacked
Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering” scams fuel violence in Myanmar, and more...
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...
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...
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.”...
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...
Trump’s Ukraine Mess Feels a Little Too Familiar
The unfolding drama ties two key threads of the Trump era: foreign interference in US elections and the president's distrust of his own intel 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...
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...
Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain
Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...
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...
Manafort and Cohen Sentencing Documents Put Donald Trump in Spotlight
The Mueller investigation has a long way to go, but the worst case scenario seems increasingly likely...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 to Opt Out of the Sites That Sell Your Personal Data
It's much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it's possible...
Russia’s Cozy Bear Hackers Resurface With Clever New Tricks
Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign...
Kostya and Me: How Sam Patten Got Ensnared in Mueller’s Probe
A political consultant crosses paths with Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort, and Cambridge Analytica, then becomes part of the Russia investigation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hackers Can Stealthily Avoid Traps Set to Defend Amazon's Cloud
In the cat and mouse game of protecting cloud services, attackers find a sneaky advantage...
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...
The Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto-scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions...
An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado
Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address...
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...
How to Log In to Your Devices Without Passwords
You can use your face, fingerprint, or a wearable to get access to your gadgets. It saves you some typing—and makes you feel like a spy...
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...