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China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon...
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...
How To Clear Out Your Zombie Apps and Online Accounts
All those services you signed up for but forgot about? They're a security risk. Here's how to get rid of them...
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...
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...
146 New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones
The dozens of flaws across 29 Android smartphone makers show just how insecure the devices can be, even brand-new...
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...
I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk
Opinion: Venmo makes sending and receiving money a social affair. But those emoji-laden payment descriptions leave you exposed to cyberattacks...
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...
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...
Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty
The company’s sometimes rocky relationship with security researchers just got a whole lot smoother...
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...
Jigsaw Bought a Russian Twitter Troll Campaign as an Experiment
In a controversial move, the Alphabet-owned tech firm played both sides of an online argument in Russia with the aim of testing disinformation-for-hire services...
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...
146 New Android Bugs, an Audio Porn Streaming Site, and More News
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A Remote-Start App Exposed Thousands of Cars to Hackers
The bugs could have let an industrious hacker locate cars, unlock them, and start them up from anywhere with an internet connection...
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...
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...
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...
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 Most-Read Security Stories of 2018
This year saw the most devastating cyberattack in history, a gang of teen hackers, and so much Mueller news...
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...
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...
Microsoft's BlueKeep Bug Isn't Getting Patched Fast Enough
At this rate, it will take years to fix a critical vulnerability that remains in over 900,000 Windows machines. A worm will arrive much sooner...
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...
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 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...
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...
The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing
As Congress continues to punt on facial recognition, advocacy groups have redoubled their efforts...
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...
Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail
Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
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...
Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With Ransomware—and Won't Pay Up
CD Projekt Red's list of woes gets longer, as hackers claim to have stolen the source code for their most popular games...
Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More
3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy Setting ASAP
Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app...
The Army Bans TikTok
A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything. But her Fitbit did...
DejaBlue: New BlueKeep-Style Bugs Mean You Need to Update Windows Now
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol continue to plague the web...
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...