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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...
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...
China Attacks Hong Kong Protesters With Fake Social Posts
Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches...
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...
When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack...
Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid
Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch...
Don’t Get Your Valentine an Internet-Connected Sex Toy
Mozilla expands its “Privacy Not Included” gift guide to the bedroom: It’s all sexy fun and games until someone hacks a WiFi-enabled butt plug...
Russia's IRA Targeted Black Americans, Exploiting Racial Tensions
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans...
How to Make Sure Your Browser Extensions Are Safe
As useful as all those add-ons can be, don't get complacent when it comes to making sure they're also secure...
The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You
Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here...
China and Iran Tried to Hack the Biden and Trump Campaigns
Plus: An iOS zero day, surveillance planes, and more of the week's top security news...
The Long Path out of the Vulnerability Disclosure Dark Ages
Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier since 2003—but not by much...
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...
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...
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...
The Perils of Distracted Fighting
Opinion: Without proper guidelines, smartphones on the battlefield may kill more soldiers than they save...
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...
Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates
You can listen to the OK Computer–era tracks right here...
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...
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...
Facebook Exposed Data Again, but This Viral Cat Can Save Lives
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
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...
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...
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards...
What’s Google FLoC? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
There’s a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all...
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...
Netflix's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has a Silver Lining
The streaming service is making account owners enter two-factor codes in a limited test. That's … actually not so bad...
China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool—and Used It for Years
The hackers used the agency’s EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency’s zero-day arsenal online...
Chrome and Edge Want to Help Solve Your Password Problems
The line between browsers and password managers is blurring...
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...
Ransomware Groups Promise Not to Hit Hospitals Amid Pandemic
Plus: iPhone cracking, credit card skimming, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Sneaky Zero-Click Attacks Are a Hidden Menace
Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult to detect...
Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived
A company you’ve never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier...
Russia Fails to Stop Alleged Hacker From Facing US Charges
The repercussions over custody and extradition of Aleksei Burkov have set off a geopolitical maelstrom...