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Batteries Are Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Against Russia
With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraine’s power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the world—and itself...
Russia’s Cyberwar Foreshadowed Deadly Attacks on Civilians
The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine is following a dangerous playbook that began to unfold years ago...
A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol...
Apple MacOS Ventura Bug Breaks Third-Party Security Tools
Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way...
iOS Can Stop VPNs From Working as Expected—and Expose Your Data
A security researcher claims that Apple mobile devices keep connections open if they are created before a VPN is activated...
Zoom’s Auto-Update Feature Came With Hidden Risks on Mac
The popular video meeting app makes it easy to keep the software up to date—but it also introduced vulnerabilities...
One of 5G’s Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield
New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data...
This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank Call Russian Officials
To protest the war in Ukraine, WasteRussianTime.today auto-dials Russian government officials, connects them to each other, and lets you listen in to their confusion...
Why the Belarus Railways Hack Marks a First for Ransomware
The politically motivated attack represents a new frontier for hacktivists—and won’t be the last of its kind...
Ignore China’s New Data Privacy Law at Your Peril
The Personal Information Protection Law gives authorities the power to impose huge fines and blacklist companies. But the biggest impact may be felt outside the country...
Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...
How to Set Up a NAS to Securely Share Files
From file backups to movie streaming, network attached storage drives offer plenty of functions and features...
How the Far Right Exploded on Steam and Discord
New research found that several of the major gaming platforms are hosting extremist activity, from racist livestreams to open support for neo-Nazis...
I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill
A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?...
WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It
It's time to do something about those photos and videos automatically saving to your camera roll...
Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites...
When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed
A researcher reverse engineered an internet-connected coffee maker to see what kinds of hacks he could do with it. The answer: quite a lot...
Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Likely Penetrated a US Federal Agency
New clues indicate that APT28 may be behind a mysterious intrusion that US officials disclosed last week...
A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital
The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter...
The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber
Scarred by trauma and devoted to Trump, a man began mailing explosives to the president’s critics on the eve of an election. Inside the race to catch him...
Intel Is Investigating How Confidential Data Ended Up Online
The leak contains information that the company makes available to partners and customers under NDA. A researcher says it came from a breach...
How to Spot—and Avoid—Dark Patterns on the Web
You've seen them before: the UX ploys designed to trick you into spending money, or make it nearly impossible to unsubscribe. Here's what to look out for...
Google Moves to Secure the Cloud From Itself
Confidential Virtual Machines allows Google Cloud Services Customers to keep data secret—even when it's being actively processed...
Microsoft Halts a Global Fraud Campaign That Targeted CEOs
A sophisticated scheme was designed to trick businesses in more than 60 countries into wiring large sums of money to attackers...
Schools Already Struggled With Cybersecurity. Then Came Covid-19
A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online...
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The videoconferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried...
Facebook 'Manage Activity' Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time...
A Vital Hack Could Turn Medical Devices Into Ventilators
Hundreds of thousands of lower-grade breathing devices are going unused because manufacturers say they can’t perform life-saving functions. But a new patch might change that...
After the Iowa Caucus Meltdown, New Hampshire Says It’s Ready
The nation’s first primary is proudly low-tech, but it'll take more than paper ballots to defuse the disinformation threat...
Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy
As the platform gains more mainstream popularity, illicit livestreams of soccer, boxing, and MMA matches have become trivial to find...
Did Donald Trump and Iran Use Twitter to Prevent a War?
Tweets from US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Tuesday offered a fascinating glimpse at how world leaders can communicate more quickly and directly than ever in times of crisis...
This Alleged Bitcoin Scam Looked a Lot Like a Pyramid Scheme
Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools...
Report: The Government and Tech Need to Cooperate on AI
It also warns that AI-enhanced national security apparatus like autonomous weapons and surveillance systems will raise ethical questions...
Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection
The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016...
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking
Apps need your explicit permission to access your smartphone's motion and light sensors. Mobile websites? Not so much...
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
From anti-drone tech to face recognition, 2026 World Cup stadiums in the US, Canada, and Mexico are subjecting fans to an array of surveillance tech. Here’s what you need to know...
The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale...
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...
Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control
Plus: Cybercriminals stole a record-breaking fortune from US residents and businesses in 2024, and Google performs its final flip-flop in its yearslong quest to kill tracking cookies...
These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more...
The US Government Has a Microsoft Problem
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass...
Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms...
‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says...
Fujitsu Bugs That Sent Innocent People to Prison Were Known ‘From the Start’
Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers...
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed...
Go on a Psychedelic Journey of the Internet's Growth and Evolution
Security researcher Barrett Lyon, who makes visualizations of the internet's network infrastructure, is back with a new piece chronicling the rise of the IPv6 protocol...
CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI
In its plans to implement a White House executive order, CISA aims to strike a balance between promoting AI adoption for national security and defending against its malicious use...
Signal Is Finally Testing Usernames
Plus: A DDoS attack shuts down ChatGPT, Lockbit shuts down a bank, and a communications breakdown between politicians and Big Tech...
Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike
Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack...
Microsoft Does Damage Control With Its New 'Secure Future Initiative'
Following a string of serious security incidents, Microsoft says it has a plan to deal with escalating threats from cybercriminals and state-backed hackers...