8 Best Password Managers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers...

3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches

An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk...

How to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money

A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure it pay ups...

Facebook's Voice Transcripts Were More Invasive Than Amazon's

The Capital One hacker, a Bluetooth vulnerability, and more of the week's top security news...

How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Was Hacked

Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap...

On TikTok, Teens Meme Life360, the Safety App Ruining Their Summer

Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance...

The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Chats

Facebook's effort to combine its major chat platforms could create minefields for users who rely on end-to-end encryption...

Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data

A jury this week finds that Minneapolis police officers abused their license database access. Dozens of other lawsuits have made similar claims...

Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops

In a strangely public product announcement, the phone-cracking firm revealed a powerful new device...

Cops Take Over a Botnet to Clear Malware Off Nearly a Million PCs

Attacking Iran, a web host data breach, and more of the week's top security news...

The Roger Stone Indictment: 4 Key Takeaways

The indictment of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone allegedly sheds new light on where the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks intersected...

A Major Hacking Spree Gets Personal for German Politicians

Hundreds of German politicians who have had their private digital lives exposed online are victims of a hacking campaign with unclear motives...

Hackers Target US Power, Amazon Clones a Neighborhood, and More News

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China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout

Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation...

China Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond

Plus, Cyber Command warns about Outlook bugs, Virginia criminalizes deepfake porn, and more top security news from this week...

An Amazon Phishing Scam Hits Just in Time For Prime Day

Some deals are too good to be true, even on the most made-up holiday of all...

An Unprecedented iPhone Hack, a Wi-Fi Leg Implant, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...

How Feds Tracked Down Mail Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc

At a press conference Friday, officials detailed how they identified and found Cesar Sayoc, who has been arrested in connection with a series of mail bombs targeting prominent liberals and CNN...

If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming

An explosive new report from Buzzfeed News makes the impeachment of Donald Trump not just possible, but likely...

Beto O'Rourke Was Part of an Infamous '90s Hacker Group

The presidential candidate's first constituency was Cult of the Dead Cow...

One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues...

A Facebook Crackdown, Amazon Facial Recognition, and More Security News This Week

Hackers use SS7 flaws to rob banks, Japan goes after IoT vulnerabilities, and more security news this week...

Security News This Week: Telegram Says China Is Behind DDoS

Voting machine security gets a boost, Have I Been Pwned is for sale, and more of the week's top security news...

Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange

A ransomware haul, a border security leak, and more of the week's top security news...

A Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling, Supply Chain Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news...

Iran's New Facebook Trolls Are Using Russia's Playbook

Facebook took down another Iranian-based network of phony accounts Friday. This new campaign focused on American politics—and it was successful...

Most Android Antivirus Apps Are Garbage

Fraudulent and ineffective antivirus apps persist on the Google Play Store, and it's unclear whether they'll ever totally go away...

Trump's Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves

The Trump administration has presented its Missile Defense Review, and yes, there are lasers...

A Simple Way to Make It Harder for Mobile Ads to Track You

Beating back the scourge of online ad tracking entirely is almost impossible. But you can futz with your smartphone's "ad ID" to slow it down...

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Won't Go to Jail for Old Hacking Crimes

Russian election hacks, Amazon's police partnerships, and more security news this week...

WeWork's Wi-Fi Is Woefully Insecure

The Saudi oil strike, a license plate privacy disaster, and more of the week's top security news...

Extreme-Risk Laws Reduce Gun Violence

Opinion: Red Flag laws help prevent suicides and mass shootings, and buy time for people in crisis to get help...

Hackers Hit Click2Gov Bill-Paying Portals in 8 Cities

The new wave of attacks comes after a previous Click2Gov hack compromised 300,000 payment cards...

Hacks, Nudes, and Breaches: It's Been a Rough Month for Dating Apps

Trouble at OKCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Jack'd have made February a bad stretch for romantics online...

DNC Accuses Russia, ACLU Sues ICE, and More Security News This Week

Trump dominated security headlines this week, but there's plenty of other news to catch up on...

The 'Twinning' Fad, the Weather Channel, and More Security News

A rogue PewDiePie fan, Marriott hack details, and more of the week's top security news...

Unfixable iOS Device Exploit Is the Latest Apple Security Upheaval

Any iPhone device from 2011 to 2017 could soon be jailbroken, thanks to an underlying flaw that there's no way to patch...

Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families

An Apple Watch bug, a hackable hair straightener, and more security news this week...

Cryptocurrency Mining Employees Expose Nuclear Plant to Internet

Xbox eavesdropping, email scammers, and more of the week's top security news...

5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More

It won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but a virtual private network can make you a less tempting target for hackers...

Alleged 'Snake Oil' Crypto Firm Sues Over Boos at Black Hat

The paper being presented suggested that the two researchers had a method to quickly find large semiprime numbers and essentially break RSA-2048 and any other semiprime-based encryption...

Taylor Swift's Facial Recognition, the Year's Worst Passwords, and More Security News This Week

Chinese hackers targeting the Navy, charity scammers, and more security news this week...

What Is Credential Dumping?

Modern network intrusions thrive on a counterintuitive trick: stealing passwords from computers that hackers have already compromised...

It’s Not Quite Doomsday o’Clock—But It Should Be

Opinion: The apocalyptic clock remains fixed at two minutes to midnight—as close as we've ever been to catastrophe. That's not close enough...

Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That Doesn’t Exist

As he declared a national emergency Friday, President Trump repeatedly dismissed statistics and reports produced by his own government...

After Whistle-Blower, House Democrats Chart a Course for Trump's Impeachment

An eventful week on Capitol Hill is only the beginning of a very long road...

National Security Is in Trump's Hands

With the departure of John Bolton from the White House this week, even the former national security advisor’s biggest critics are worried...

Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week

A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week...

Best Privacy Browsers (2024): Brave, Safari, Ghostery, Firefox, DuckDuckGo

Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in...

Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records

Some kids play in a band after school. Bill Demirkapi hacked two education software giants...