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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...
WhatsApp Hack Targeted Officials in More Than 20 Countries
NSO Group exploits, Counter-Strike money laundering, and a Pentagon scam are among the week’s top security news...
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...
The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom
By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...
Twitter Abuse Toward Women Is Rampant, Amnesty Report Says
Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse, Amnesty International crowdsources its own data and finds that the platform is especially toxic for black women...
Harmful 'Nudify' Websites Used Google, Apple, and Discord Sign-On Systems
Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found. Discord and Apple have started to terminate some developers’ accounts...
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...
Congress Grills the Spy Chief, Google’s Quantum 'Victory,' and More News
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Hackers Are Poking at a MacOS Gatekeeper Flaw Apple Left Unfixed
The clock's ticking to fix a Gatekeeper bug that would let hackers slip malware onto your computer undetected...
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...
The False Promise of “Lawful Access” to Private Data
Opinion: As online extremism migrates to real-world violence, some suggest letting law enforcement intercept encrypted messages. But that’s a dangerous proposition...
The Challenge of America's First Online Census
Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to new risks...
Cryptojacking Took Over the Internet in 2018
Move over, ransomware. Cryptojacking is officially the scourge of the internet...
What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance
When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out...
What You Should Know About Voilà, the Latest Viral Selfie App
Before you use it to cartoonify your face, consider the risks to your data...
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...
New York's Revenge Porn Law Is a Flawed Step Forward
All but four states in the US now have a revenge porn law on the books. But advocates say precious few get it right...
Another MacOS Bug Lets Hackers Invisibly Click Security Prompts
Yet again, a bug in Apple's safeguards against "synthetic clicks" allows hackers to slip past Mojave's security restrictions on apps...
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...
Dark Web Drug Busts Lead to 150 Arrests
Operation Dark HunTor spanned eight countries—and put the focus on sellers more than marketplaces...
AirDrop Is Leaking Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Apple has known about the flaw since 2019 but has yet to acknowledge or fix it...
DNC Hackers Resurface, Zuckerberg Talks Free Speech, and More News
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Under Trump, Cybersecurity Has Waned
Opinion: Congress has abdicated its role in preventing and punishing cyberattacks. The Cyber Solarium Commission is our best defense...
7 Scenarios for How the Mueller Probe Might End
Reports say that the special counsel will be "wrapping up" his investigation soon. Here's what that might actually mean...
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why...
The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre
One year after a pair of devastating processor vulnerabilities were first disclosed, Intel's still dealing with the fallout...
At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself
The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data...
A Dunkin' Donuts Hack, a Fake FedEx Site, and More Security News This Week
Scam centers, exposed massage company data, and more of the week's top security news...
Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm
News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...
Utah's ‘Porn Filter’ Law Passes the State Legislature
Plus: An iOS 14 jailbreak is out, Solarwinds details emerge, and more of the week's top security news...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade
In the early aughts the internet was less dangerous than it was disruptive. That's changed...
Why the iPhone 11 Tracks Your Location Even When You Tell It Not To
Russian disinformation, a VC hack, vulnerable VPNs, and more are in the week’s top security news...
How Apple Pay Buttons Can Make Websites Less Safe
Apple Pay itself is safe. But the way websites implement it can cause serious problems...
The Iran Hacks Cybersecurity Experts Feared May Be Here
An uptick in potentially Iran-related hacking since the nuclear deal collapsed spells trouble for the US and allies...
What the Jetflicks and iStreamItAll Takedowns Mean for Piracy
In a sweeping indictment, the feds came down hard on two unauthorized streaming services that allegedly crossed a very important line...
To Fight Deepfakes, Researchers Built a Smarter Camera
One way to tell if an image has been faked? Bake the tamper-proofing into the camera itself...
The Danger in Assange’s Charges, a Memory Experiment, and More News
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An Android Vulnerability Went Unfixed for Over Five Years
Older Android devices—of which there are over 100 million still in use—will remain exposed...
A 'Fortnite' Vulnerability Exposed Accounts to Takeover
Epic Games has since patched the attack, which would have allowed attackers to view account info, listen in on in-game conversations, and more...
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about...
Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban Life
Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened...
Google Tightens Its Voice Assistant Rules Amid Privacy Backlash
Following Apple, Amazon, and others, Google will put in new safeguards against accidental voice assistant collection and transcription...
The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Test in Iran
Last week’s US strike of an Iranian drone is the first reported successful use of the Marines’ new energy weapon...
$700 Million Equifax Fine Is Still Too Little, Too Late
For failing to safeguard Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and more, Equifax will pay up—but not enough, experts say...
How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again
OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity...
Google+ Exposed Data of 52.5 Million Users and Will Shut Down in April
A month after Google had already decided to shut down Google+, a new bug made its problems much, much worse...
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Accuses Georgia Democrats of Hacking
Georgia's secretary of state is also its GOP gubernatorial candidate. And he just claimed that Democrats committed "cyber crimes."...