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Ewoks Are the Most Tactically Advanced Fighting Force in Star Wars
Hate them or love them, the Ewoks have more strategic chops than any military in the Star Wars galaxy...
Iranian Americans Struggle to Reach Family Amid Internet Blackout
As Iran's countrywide internet shutdown approaches a full week, Iranian Americans are increasingly desperate to connect with friends and relatives...
DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You Visit
If a site offers HTTPS, DuckDuckGo's Smarter Encryption will take you there...
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200
A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment...
Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets from Millions of PCs
Two different groups of researchers found another speculative execution attack that can steal all the data a CPU touches...
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...
Facebook or YouTube Down? What We All Do When Sites Crash
What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls? Spoiler: We don’t log off—we just scurry off to different sometimes darker corners of the web...
How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar
From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow’s offensive hacking has now targeted Iranians with some of history's most aggressive cyberattacks...
Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops
The crime-tracking app is charging $20 per month to give subscribers access to their own virtual security service...
Hackers Stole a Ton of EA Data—Including Valuable Source Code
The video game publisher confirmed the breach, which could be a boon to the shadowy world of cheat-makers...
Extremist Charged With Plot to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers
The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent...
Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users...
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...
Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security
In its latest Platform Security Guide, Cupertino raised the curtain on the critical features that protect against hackers...
How to Avoid Phishing Emails and Scams
It's is a bigger threat than ever. Here are some ways you can defend yourself...
A Windows Defender Flaw Lurked Undetected for 12 Years
Microsoft has finally patched the bug in its antivirus program after researchers spotted it last fall...
Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel
Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Forces” could be abused...
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption
New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools...
Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot
Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an internet-connected billboard...
Spies Say Covid-19 Isn't Manmade
Plus: A malicious GIF, Android malware, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Keep Your Zoom Chats Private and Secure
Trolls. Prying bosses. Zoom's a great video chat platform, but a few simple steps also make it a safe one...
How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill
Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it's easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent...
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge
Researchers have identified 11 new vulnerabilities in 5G—with time running out to fix them...
Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
The Internet Research Agency specifically targeted African Americans, and has not stopped trying to influence elections, a Senate intelligence report says...
New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
A fresh look at the 2016 blackout in Ukraine suggests that the cyberattack behind it was intended to cause far more damage...
Apple Finally Breaks Its Silence on iOS Hacking Campaign
In its first public statement since Google revealed a sophisticated attack against iOS devices, Apple defended its security measures...
Trump’s Intel Vacancies Put Americans in Danger
Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon...
A Mysterious Hacker Group Is On a Supply Chain Hijacking Spree
A group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned the software of at least six companies in just the last three years...
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...
Venmo Gets More Private—but It's Still Not Fully Safe
Eliminating the global feed is a good step. But until the platform offers privacy by default, it remains a liability for many of its users...
The SolarWinds Hackers Used an iOS Flaw to Compromise iPhones
Security researchers say the group exploited a zero-day in Apple’s operating system to target European government officials over LinkedIn...
Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets
The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims...
Cuba’s Social Media Blackout Reflects an Alarming New Normal
In response to mass protests, the country has been blocking social media and communication platforms since Sunday—an increasingly common action worldwide...
An Office Phone Flaw Can’t Be Fixed by Cisco Alone
The company released a patch this week, but security researchers say the root of the problem is beyond its control—and symptomatic of a larger issue...
NFC Flaws Let Researchers Hack ATMs by Waving a Phone
Flaws in card reader technology let a security firm consultant wreak havoc with point-of-sale systems and more...
An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Ransomware Faces Long Odds
A task force counting Amazon, Cisco, and the FBI among its members has proposed a framework to solve one of cybersecurity's biggest problems. Good luck...
A Clubhouse Bug Let People Lurk in Rooms Invisibly
The vulnerabilities opened the door to “ghosts” hiding in and disrupting rooms, where moderators would be unable to mute them...
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot...
It’s Open Season for Microsoft Exchange Server Hacks
A patch for the vulnerabilities China exploited has been released. Now, criminal groups are going to reverse engineer it—if they haven’t already...
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time...
France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree
A French security agency warns that the destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon...
A Second SolarWinds Hack Deepens Third-Party Software Fears
It appears that not only Russia but also China targeted the company, a reminder of the many ways interconnectedness can go wrong...
Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump has not yet conceded the presidential race, and may not any time soon. But there's no evidence whatsoever of a “stolen” election...
The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities...
The 'Robo Revenge' App Makes It Easy to Sue Robocallers
Mac malware, a Bitcoin mixer, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Smartphone's Encryption
Both iPhones and Androids are encrypted by default. But there are steps you can take to safeguard your data on backups and messaging apps...
What Happens When You Remove a Police-Installed GPS Tracker
The Supreme Court ruled that cops need a warrant to attach a GPS device to your car. But if you find one, can you remove it?...
A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose
At this year's Defcon Medical Device Village, hackers will attack real medical devices at a pretend hospital...
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now
Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them...
Internal Docs Show How ICE Gets Surveillance Help From Local Cops
Documents obtained by the ACLU show how ICE uses unofficial channels to access billions of license plate location data points—including some sanctuary cities...