‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware

Plus: Russia tightens social media censorship, new cyberattack reporting rules for US companies, and Google Street View returns to Germany...

China’s Breach of Microsoft Cloud Email May Expose Deeper Problems

Plus: Microsoft expands access to premium security features, AI child sexual abuse material is on the rise, and Netflix’s password crackdown has its intended effect...

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again

Ransomware attacks tumbled in 2022, offering hope that the tide was turning against the criminal gangs behind them. Then things got a whole lot worse...

How to Use Discord’s Family Center With Your Teens

The popular communication platform launched a new child safety tool for parents. Here’s what the feature does and doesn’t include...

Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands

Plus: A French bill would allow spying via phone cameras, ATM skimmers target welfare families, and Japan’s largest cargo port gets hit with ransomware...

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days

Plus: Discord has a child predator problem, fears rise of China spying from Cuba, and hackers try to blackmail Reddit...

Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions

The ransomware gang Clop exploited a vulnerability in a file transfer service. The flaw is now patched, but the damage is still coming into focus...

A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians

Personal information, including ID documents and phone numbers, have been released on Telegram...

The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea

New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn't exist...

Toyota Leaked Vehicle Data of 2 Million Customers

The FBI disables notorious Russia-linked malware, the EU edges toward a facial recognition ban, and security firm Dragos has an intrusion of its own...

Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point

The state is poised to be the first in the US to block downloads of the popular app, which could ignite a precarious chain reaction for digital rights...

US Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data

After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters...

All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It

Cupertino puts privacy first in a lot of its products. But the company still gathers a bunch of your information...

January 6 Report: 11 Details You May Have Missed

The January 6 Committee’s 841-page report will go down as one of the most important documents in US history. These key details stand out...

The Dangerous Digital Creep of Britain's ‘Hostile Environment’

The UK's use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants' lives...

Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk

New research found pervasive use of tracking tech on substance-abuse-focused health care websites, potentially endangering users in a post-Roe world...

Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode

Plus: US midterms survive disinformation efforts, the government names the alleged Lockbit ransomware attacker, and the Powerball drawing hits a security snag...

IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards...

You Need to Update Google Chrome, Windows, and Zoom Right Now

Plus: Important patches from Apple, VMWare, Cisco, Zimbra, SAP, and Oracle...

Binance Hackers Minted $569M in Crypto—Then It Got Complicated

Plus: The US warns of a mysterious military contractor breach, a "poisoned" version of the Tor Browser is tracking Chinese users, and more...

The Uber Data Breach Conviction Shows Security Execs What Not to Do

Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan’s conviction is a rare criminal consequence for an executive’s handling of a hack...

Cloudflare Takes a Stab at a Captcha That Doesn’t Suck

The internet infrastructure company has an alternative tool to check whether you’re human—and it doesn’t force you to pick out buses in tiny boxes...

The Deep Roots of Nigeria’s Cybersecurity Problem

Despite having one of the strongest data-protection policies in Africa, the country’s enforcement and disclosure practices remain dangerously broken...

How to Use DuckDuckGo’s Privacy-First Email Service

Tired of advertisers spying on your private communications? This beta promises to kick tracking technology to the curb...

The US May Soon Learn What a ‘Kid-Friendly’ Internet Looks Like

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code would launch a huge online privacy experiment. And it won’t just affect children...

Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll

As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers...

The Android 13 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now

Google’s new mobile operating system has arrived. Take back some control with these privacy and security tips...

Flaw in the VA Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk

The Veterans Affairs’ VistA software has a vulnerability that could let an attacker “masquerade as a doctor,” a security researcher warns...

The Feds Gear Up for a Privacy Crackdown

Plus: Cisco gets hit by ransomware, Twilio gets phished, a new way to fight email spammers, and much more...

Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption

The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case...

A Privacy Panic Flares Up in India After Police Pull Payment Data

Nonprofit donors had their information given to law enforcement without consent, highlighting limited data protections in the world’s largest democracy...

Here’s Why You’re Still Stuck in Robocall Hell

Despite major progress fighting spam and scams, the roots of the problem go far deeper than your phone company’s defenses...

‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’

During the protests in Hong Kong, young people carried laser pointers, umbrellas, and plastic ties—objects that sometimes led to their arrest, and years of legal limbo...

The Surveillance State Is Primed for Criminalized Abortion

A new report lays out existing US police surveillance capabilities that can easily be repurposed to monitor pregnant people...

Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy

Plus: Russia rerouted internet in occupied Ukraine, Grindr sold its users' location data to ad networks, and more...

How to Protect Your Digital Privacy if Roe v. Wade Falls

Reproductive rights are still largely guaranteed in the United States. Here are some key privacy concepts to adopt in the event that they're not...

How Russia's Invasion Triggered a US Crackdown on Its Hackers

The Biden White House is using “all of the levers of national power” to counter—or preempt—cyberattacks by Russia’s most dangerous hacker groups...

WatchGuard Didn't Explicitly Disclose a Flaw Exploited by Hackers

The security vendor kept a critical vulnerability in its firewall appliances quiet even as it was under attack from a Russian hacking group...

An ‘Unhinged’ Putin Threatens Dangerous Escalation in Ukraine

With no off-ramp in sight, Russia’s leader has put the country’s nuclear forces on alert...

Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls

Western intelligence services are raising alarms about Cyclops Blink, the latest tool at the notorious group’s disposal...

Inside the Lab Where Intel Tries to Hack Its Own Chips

Researchers at iSTARE have to think like the bad guys, finding critical flaws before processors go to production...

A DDoS Attack Wiped Out Andorra's Internet

Plus: Securing US water systems, the FBI's NSO Group dealings, and more of the week's top security news...

A Bug in iOS 15 Is Leaking User Browsing Activity in Real Time

Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November...

Buckle Up for More Log4j Madness

Plus: An alleged spy, a ransomware arrest, and more of the week's top security news...

Google Warns That NSO Hacking Is On Par With Elite Spy Groups

ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” Project Zero security researchers have ever seen...

How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Custom Experience Tracking

Unless you manually opt out of the program, Verizon will store personal information and create user interest profiles...

The Android 12 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now

Google's new mobile operating system is finally rolling out to more phones. Here's what you need to tweak...

How to Use iCloud+'s New Security Features

Apple's cloud storage service now comes with perks—and they're designed to improve your digital privacy and security...

The Trump Administration Continues to Erode Election Security

The DHS, the DOJ, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have all had recent controversies that bode poorly for electoral integrity...

Google and Apple Reveal How Covid-19 Alert Apps Might Look

As contact tracing plans firm up, the tech giants are sharing new details for their framework—and a potential app interface...