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Don’t Be Duped by Voting Misinformation Before the Midterms
How to find accurate voting information for the midterm elections...
Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine
At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware...
Google's Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole
By building security into top-level domains, Google makes it harder for HTTPS to fall short...
The Windows 10 Privacy Settings You Should Check Right Now
Whether you're new to Windows 10 or have been using it for years, take a minute to lock down your privacy...
An Unprecedented Cyberattack Hit the US Power Grid
Exposed Facebook phone numbers, an XKCD breach, and more of the week's top security news...
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong...
How to Protect Our Kids' Data and Privacy
Opinion: Kids today have an online presence starting at birth, which raises a host of legal and ethical concerns. We desperately need a new data protection framework...
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect's Gab Posts Are Part of a Pattern
It may never be clear why Robert Bowers chose to carry out a violent attack. But his social media activity mirrors an increase in anti-Semitism on the internet...
The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI...
How Close Is Iran to a Nuclear Weapon? Here's What We Know
Iran is no longer abiding by many of the restrictions in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to build a bomb, either...
The App Creeping on Your IG Location, Jakarta’s Insurance Crisis, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
This Tesla Mod Turns a Model S Into a Mobile 'Surveillance Station'
The Surveillance Detection Scout can track license plates and faces near your Tesla—with all the privacy concerns that implies...
Hacker Steals $610M of Cryptocurrency—and Returns Most of It
Plus: An Apple lawsuit, a VPN audit, and more of the week's top security news...
Turn On Auto-Updates Everywhere You Can
Meltdowns like the Chrome zero day bug show why enabling auto-updates can be the wisest choice for many consumers...
Huge Data Leak Doxes Members of Notorious Neo-Nazi Forum
Apple Mail encryption, Ring doorbell Wi-Fi, and more of the week's top security news...
A Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone Wrong
The stories might sound unbelievable, but they’re all real—and a cautionary tale for anyone who wants to get clever at the DMV...
The Mueller Report Is Here, Apple's Big Event, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
An Apple-Hacking Teen, SIM-Swap Indictments, and More Security News This Week
Location data scandals, a Zcash bug, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Control What Websites Can Do on Your Computer
If you're not careful, websites can grab all kinds of permissions you don't realize or intend. Take back control in your browser...
The Mueller Report Is Done. Now Comes the Hard Part
Special counsel Robert Mueller finished his investigation into the 2016 presidential election Friday...
Trump's North Korea Summit Inspires Spearphishing
Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news...
FEMA Leaked Data From 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors
The Homeland Security Department inspector general released a damning report about FEMA's inability to safeguard the personal info of the people it helped...
The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack
DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat...
Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook
The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny...
Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet
Microsoft's critical vulnerability remains unpatched in hundreds of thousands of computers, and it may already be exploited in secret...
The Shenanigans Behind a Stealthy Apple Keychain Attack
An 18-year-old security researcher made headlines earlier this year with KeySteal, a macOS hack. Now he's showing the world how it worked...
Amazon Exposes Emails, Insurance Company Surveillance, and More Security News This Week
A USPS data leak, Windows passwords go bye-bye, and more security news this week...
DOJ Says Chinese Hackers Attacked Anthem, but Not Why
For years, China was rumored to be behind the health insurance company's massive data breach, but now the Justice Department is noticeably silent on the hackers' motives and affiliation...
Iranian Hackers Targeted a US Presidential Candidate
A revelation from Microsoft offers a chilling reminder that Russia is not the only country interested in swaying the 2020 election...
What Past Whistle-Blowers Think of the Trump-Ukraine Complaint
Two former intelligence community whistle-blowers say the life of whoever wrote the Trump-Ukraine complaint has been permanently altered...
Iranian Hackers Launch a New US-Targeted Campaign as Tensions Mount
Three cybersecurity firms have identified phishing attacks stemming from Iran—that may lay the groundwork for something more destructive...
A 'Smart Wall' Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis
A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one, but it raises civil liberties concerns that are largely absent from the debate...
Twitter Still Can't Keep Up With Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds
Iowa researchers built an AI engine they say can spot abusive apps on Twitter months before the service itself identifies them...
To Curb Terrorist Propaganda Online, Look to YouTube. No, Really.
Opinion: Despite YouTube’s crackdown, extremist groups are still exploiting other Google platforms...
The Global Hawk Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster
The Global Hawk can fly at an altitude of 55,000 feet and stay aloft for 30 hours straight...
Jargon Watch: Stochastic Terrorism Lets Bullies Operate in Plain Sight
It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies...
How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out
Sharing is caring. But it's worth checking if your streaming accounts have picked up any suspicious stragglers along the way...
A US Election Phishing Attack, Quitting Vaping, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
How Hackers Turn Microsoft Excel's Own Features Against It
A pair of recent findings show how hackers can compromise Excel users without any fancy exploits...
A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata
In one case, they stole the location and call record data of 20 specific individuals...
The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
The typical response to the onslaught of falsehood is to say, lol, nothing matters. But when so many of us are reaching this point, it really does matter...
Google Says It Won't Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree
Upcoming changes to Chrome has left ad blockers up in arms. But Google insists it won't stifle the extensions...
Russian Trolls Are Still Playing Both Sides—Even With the Mueller Probe
The latest indictment against Russian trolls shows how they sowed division in the US on wedge issues, including the investigation into their activity...
How Facebook Hackers Compromised 30 Million Accounts
Facebook has revealed more details about the unprecedented breach of its platform—including how hackers got away with the access tokens of 30 million users...
Don't Believe Everything You See About the Migrant Caravan
A migrant caravan traveling through Mexico is the latest news event to be weaponized online...
He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back
How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down...
A Hidden Nest Secure Mic, Facebook's Dead VPN, and More Security News This Week
The 2020 disinformation campaigns have started, DrainerBot is coming for your smartphone's battery, and more security news this week...
The (Non-Trump) Surprise Inside Andrew McCabe's Memoir
In The Threat, the former FBI deputy director paints a familiar portrait of Trump, but deepens our understanding of a dark time for agency...
Apple Data Downloads, A Dating App for Trump Fans, and More Security News This Week
North Korean bitcoin theft, Fake FCC complaints, and more security news this week...
Iran Shoots Down a US Drone, Apple Recalls MacBook Batteries, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...