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TikTok, Under Scrutiny, Distances Itself From China
Three senators have called for an investigation into the social media app, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance...
Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail
Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news...
Robert Mueller Has Already Told You Everything You Need To Know
With the exception of President Trump’s legal team, no one has been watching the Mueller investigation more closely than Garrett Graff...
A Hack to Steal a Tesla, a Yelp Overhaul, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Before Mueller’s Testimony, Dems Demand More Election Security
Senate Democrats want to remind everyone that US elections are still at risk, and Congress could do more to protect them...
The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers and Assassins
Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency...
Chinese Surveillance, Facebook Tracking, and More Security News This Week
3-D printed rifles, Iran missile hacking, and more of the week's top security news...
How the US Prepares Its Embassies for Potential Attacks
In addition to securing physical structures, the Diplomatic Security Service runs simulations of protests in a model city in Virginia...
146 New Android Bugs, an Audio Porn Streaming Site, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking
Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes...
The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing
As Congress continues to punt on facial recognition, advocacy groups have redoubled their efforts...
US to Russia on Nuke Experiments: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
The US is quietly ramping up its plutonium experiments even as Washington raises concerns about Russian testing...
Julian Assange, a Big Yahoo Fine, and More Security News This Week
Plus: Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, Silk Road 2's founder, and more of the week's top security news...
A NASA Hack, a PewDiePie Fan, and More Security News
Amazon sends Echo recordings to the wrong person, Russians tried to get US Treasury dirt on Clinton donors, and more of the week's top security news...
Julian Assange Charges, Japan's Top Cybersecurity Official, and More Security News This Week
Safer browsing, more bitcoin scams, and the rest of the week's top security news...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2018: Trump, Zuck and More
From Donald Trump to Russian hackers, these are the most dangerous characters we've been watching online in 2018...
The Biggest Cybersecurity Crises of 2019 So Far
Ransomware attacks, supply chain hacks, escalating tensions with Iran—the first six months of 2019 have been anything but boring...
Tricky Scam Plants Phishing Links in Your Google Calendar
Scammers are taking advantage of default calendar settings to try to trick users into clicking malicious links...
A Push to Protect Campaigns from Hackers Hits an FEC Roadblock
The FEC may prevent an anti-phishing firm providing its services to campaigns for free or cheap...
Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location
New research shows how nearby attackers can see where you are, send you spoofed carrier messages, and more...
Google's Making It Easier to Encrypt Even Cheap Android Phones
Adiantum will help millions of low-end Android smartphones receive the same encryption protections as flagships...
An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach
Collection 1 appears to be the biggest public breach yet, with millions of unique passwords sitting out in the open...
Nationwide Bomb Threats Look Like New Spin on an Old Bitcoin Scam
Apparent bitcoin scammers caused chaos across the US Thursday, radically escalating longstanding tactics...
How to Stop Robocalls—or At Least Slow Them Down
Let's be honest, you can't kill robocalls completely. But you can block more of them than you might think...
Facial Recognition Has Already Reached Its Breaking Point
Facial recognition technology has proliferated unchecked in the US so far. Congress finally seems ready to do something about it...
Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies...
Facebook Bug Bounty Program Makes Biggest Reward Payout Yet
Despite Cambridge Analytica and a damaging hack, Facebook's bug bounty program offers a bright spot...
Porn Showed Up on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet Rot
Plus: China's pipeline probing, a Chromebook debacle, and more of the week's top security news...
How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After Soleimani's Assassination
From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal...
Apple's 'Find My' Feature Uses Some Very Clever Cryptography
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple...
Goznym Takedown Shows the Anatomy of a Modern Cybercriminal Supply Chain
Charges against 10 men across Eastern Europe associated with the Goznym malware crew reveal global law enforcement's reach—and its limits...
Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone
Catch up on the most important tech news today in two minutes or less...
Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive
Until Apple revoked its privileges Wednesday, Facebook was paying iOS users $20 a month to download and install the data-sucking application...
How to Secure Your Wi-Fi Router and Protect Your Home Network
Router security has improved a bunch in recent years, but there are still steps you can take to lock yours down even better...
The Evidence That Links Russia’s Most Brazen Hacking Efforts
From the 2017 French election to the Olympics to NotPetya, the same group's fingerprints have appeared again and again...
How a Google Cloud Catch-22 Broke the Internet
A Google Cloud outage that knocked huge portions of the internet offline also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it...
Much @Stake: The Band of Hackers That Defined an Era
Today's cybersecurity superstars share a common thread—one that leads back to early hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow...
ATM Hacking Has Gotten So Easy, the Malware's a Game
A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine...
A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps
Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps...
In Project Maven's Wake, the Pentagon Seeks AI Tech Talent
The Defense Department wants to use AI in warfare. In the aftermath of Project Maven, it still needs Big Tech’s help...
Russia Linked to Triton Industrial Control Malware
Like so many other internet misdeeds, the notorious Triton malware appears to have originated in Moscow...
How Do We Bring Equality to Data Ownership and Usage?
Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change...
The FaceApp Privacy Panic, a Mysterious Satellite Outage, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
What Is Credential Stuffing?
What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They're frequently used to try to break into users' other accounts across the internet...
Cryptojacking Took Over the Internet in 2018
Move over, ransomware. Cryptojacking is officially the scourge of the internet...
How to Keep Nearby Strangers from Sending You Files
Sharing is caring—except when it's an unwelcome photo from a rando on the subway. Here's how to lock down your phone and computer...
Airport Facial Recognition, How Abusers Exploit Basic Apps, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Go Update iOS Right Now To Fix That Very Bad FaceTime Bug
Apple has just released iOS 12.1.4, which fixes a group chat FaceTime bug that let callers eavesdrop on targets...
Rudy Giuliani Butt-Dialed a Reporter (Twice!)
A UN phishing attack, Adobe accounts exposed, and more of the week's top security news...
Robert Mueller's Work Is Done. Now It's Congress's Turn
In nearly six hours of testimony Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller stuck to the facts...