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Don't Ignore Chrome's New Password Checkup Feature
It could help save you when the next big breach hits...
Uninstall ToTok, an Alleged Emirati Spy App, From Your Phone Now
A messaging app called ToTok had scores of positive reviews, particularly from users in the UAE. US intelligent officials say it may be spying for that government instead...
Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess
The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception...
Congress Still Doesn't Have an Answer for Ransomware
As data hijackers continue to target local governments and hospitals, legislators remain stymied over how best to address the problem...
Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates
You can listen to the OK Computer–era tracks right here...
How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call
All it took to compromise a smartphone was a single phone call over WhatsApp. The user didn't even have to pick up the phone...
Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals
Investigators from the New York district attorney's office stumbled across dark web drug vendor "sinmed" thanks to suspicious ATM transactions...
Mar-a-Lago's Security Problems Go Way Beyond a Thumb Drive
A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersecurity risks...
The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump
Nancy Pelosi’s comments about impeachment acknowledge a political reality: Nothing the Mueller probe has revealed so far has moved the GOP substantially...
Machine Learning Can Use Tweets to Automatically Spot Critical Security Flaws
Researchers built an AI engine that uses tweets to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities with 86 percent accuracy...
A Trove of Facebook Data Is a Spammer's Dream and Your Nightmare
A new report suggests that spammers, not nation states, may have been behind the Facebook hack. That could be even worse news...
The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure
Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse...
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...
Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation
Plus: Fox News gets sued for its election coverage again, a record ransomware attack, and more of the week’s top security news...
Chrome and Edge Want to Help Solve Your Password Problems
The line between browsers and password managers is blurring...
Ransomware Groups Promise Not to Hit Hospitals Amid Pandemic
Plus: iPhone cracking, credit card skimming, and more of the week's top security news...
All the Ways Facebook Tracks You—and How to Limit It
If you have a Facebook account—and even if you don't—the company is going to collect data about you. But you can at least control how it gets used...
The FBI Wants Apple to Unlock iPhones Again
Snooping Ring employees, Skype contractors, and more of the week's top security news...
Opinion: Websites Ask for Permissions And Attack Forgiveness
Web pages are increasingly powerful—asking for notifications, webcam access, or location—but this great power comes with great vulnerabilities...
Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops and Phones
Bluetooth scanners are readily available and easy to use—which means that smash-and-grab car break-in might not have been pure chance...
The Fight Against Robocalls Gets Powerful New Allies
All the state attorneys general, along with 12 major companies, promise to finally make serious moves against robocalls...
How AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to 'Unlock' Millions of Phones
One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees...
Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years
The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years...
Mastercard Wades Into Murky Waters With Its New Digital ID
The credit card company has more details about its plan for a decentralized, universal digital ID, but questions remain...
How to Check Your Computer for Hacked Asus Software Update
Hackers compromised Asus’s Live Update tool to distribute malware to almost 1 million people. Here’s how to see if your computer has it...
Why Google Internet Traffic Rerouted Through China and Russia
For two hours Monday, Google internet traffic rerouted through China, Russia, and elsewhere. Here's why...
Signal's "Sealed Sender" Is a Clever New Way to Shield Your Identity
"Sealed sender" gives the leading encrypted messaging app an important boost, hiding metadata around who sent a given message...
Why Supply Chain Hacks Are a Cybersecurity Worse Case Scenario
A blockbuster report from Bloomberg says that China has compromised servers used by major US companies. It's a problem that experts have long feared, and still don't know how to resolve...
The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook
The social networking giant confirmed Friday that sites you use Facebook to login to could have been accessed as a result of its massive breach...
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing
Carriers know where you are every time your phone reconnects to the cell network—but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn’t have to...
All the Ways Amazon Tracks You—and How to Stop It
The retail empire is obsessed with your data. But is the convenience worth your personal information?...
How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme
The company’s ex-vice president of IT faces 20 years in prison for creating a pay-to-play environment with technology vendors...
Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return...
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70 GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists...
Trump’s Worst, Most Bizarre Statements About ‘the Cyber’
Over the course of his presidency, he managed to be consistently wrong, outrageous, and dangerous in equal measure. We look back at his most notorious remarks...
It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Go ahead, give them the keys to your heart—but anything more could make a cybersecurity mess...
Secret Service Investigates 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud
Ransomware as a service, exposed SMS photos, and more of the week's top security news...
This $350 "Anti-5G" Device Is Apparently Just a USB Stick
Plus: A LiveJournal hack, Qatar's contact-tracing privacy failure, and more of the week's top security news...
Don't Be Fooled by Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Scams
Fraudsters have found yet another way to take advantage of the pandemic...
What Is Fleeceware, and How Can You Protect Yourself?
Sneaky developers are charging big bucks for basic apps. Here's how to spot a scam in sheep's clothing...
Creditors Seek to Exhume the Body of a Dead Crypto Executive
Gerry Cotten took at least $137 million to the grave when he died without giving anyone the password to his encrypted laptop...
Russian Hackers Are Still Targeting the Olympics
Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over...
A Brief History of Russian Hackers' Evolving False Flags
Most hackers know how to cover their tracks. But Russia’s elite groups are working at a whole other level...
How Android Fought the Chamois Botnet—and Won
The Chamois botnet once infected 20 million Android devices. Here's how Google finally tore it up...
Paper and the Case for Going Low-Tech in the Voting Booth
When considered as a form of tech, paper has a killer feature set: It’s intuitive, it doesn’t crash, and it doesn’t need a power source...
The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search
Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options to get you started...
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...
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It
Whether you're listening to workout music or a "cooking dinner" playlist, the app can show you ads based on your mood and what you're doing right now...