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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...
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...
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...
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...
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
Researchers found that tools like OpenAI's GPT-3 helped craft devilishly effective spearphishing messages...
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...
The Kaseya Ransomware Nightmare Is Almost Over
A decryption tool has emerged, meaning any victims whose systems remain locked up can soon breathe easy...
Why the Password Isn't Dead Quite Yet
Everyone hates the old ways of authentication. But while change is closer than ever, it comes with its own drawbacks...
ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality
The secret campaign, backed by major broadband companies, used real people’s names without their consent...
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...
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...
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...
Biden Has to Walk a Fine Line When Fighting Disinformation
The president pledged to defend the truth, but how far can he go without impinging Americans’ rights or undermining his cause?...
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...
Now's The Perfect Time to Start Using a Password Manager
Time has no meaning, and we're all stuck in front of screens. You may as well secure your life while you're always online...
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...
How to Share Files Securely Online: Dropbox, Firefox Send, and More
There's no shortage of options for sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets...
Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
Russia can't cut its internet off from the rest of the world yet. But a recent test foreshadowed more censorship and repression to come...
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...
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...
The Brave Browser Extends Its Payouts to iOS
Nearly four years after Brave proposed paying users to surf the web, that vision is finally coming to the iPhone...
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...
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested in Massive Global Sweep
The most sweeping takedown yet of so-called BEC scammers involved arrests in nearly a dozen countries...
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...
The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies' Hands
How a "secret" hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc...
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...
Russian Hackers Go From Foothold to Full-On Breach in 19 Minutes
A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours...
A Hacker May Have Deepfaked Trump’s Chief of Staff in a Phishing Campaign
Plus: An Iranian man pleads guilty to a Baltimore ransomware attack, Russia’s nuclear blueprints get leaked, a Texas sheriff uses license plate readers to track a woman who got an abortion, and more...
2034, Part V: Sailing Into Darkness
“Somewhere in that black hole was the Chinese fleet. She would be expected to find and destroy it.”...
North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros
The sweeping campaign took advantage of the collaborative spirit among researchers, with an unknown number of victims...
Ex-CISA Head Chris Krebs: ‘Impeachment Is the Right Mechanism’
In an interview with WIRED, the famously fired DHS official shared insights on election security, disinformation, SolarWinds—and what to do about Trump...
Ransomware Groups Promise Not to Hit Hospitals Amid Pandemic
Plus: iPhone cracking, credit card skimming, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy
Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops...
A Peek Into the Toolkit of the Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers
Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs' intrusions...
How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children
Ad hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse...
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...
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
In 2016, three friends created a botnet that nearly broke the internet. Now, they're helping the feds catch cybercriminals of all stripes...
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?...
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia. Other Nations Will Take Note
Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow...
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...
Government Demands for Amazon User Data Exploded in 2020
Plus: Smartmatic lawsuits, a fake WhatsApp, and more of the week’s top security news...
What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging...
Zoom Upgrades Encryption Keys to What It Promised All Along
Plus: Facebook data on the dark web, Nintendo accounts keep getting hacked, and more of the week's top security news...