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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse...
Apple’s M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw
The covert channel bug is harmless, but it demonstrates that even new CPUs have mistakes in them...
The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
The government's latest attack is aimed at discouraging the company from following through with its planned rollout across platforms...
The SolarWinds Body Count Now Includes NASA and the FAA
Plus: Firefox blocks more tracking, how to fight a robodog, and more of the week’s top security news...
Update Your iPhone and iPad Now If You Haven't Recently
Plus: A ransomware arrest, a dating site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...
The NSA and FBI Expose Fancy Bear's Sneaky Hacking Tool
Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week's top security news...
Look Out for This Covid-19 Excel Phishing Scam
Plus: An iOS leak, an EasyJet breach, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money
If you had a Yahoo account from 2012 to 2016, you probably have $100 coming your way...
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pages—including celebrities and politicians—for several hours...
The 25 Most Dangerous Software Vulnerabilities
DMV privacy, a password ruling, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Control the Privacy of Your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Posts
Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, lock down who can see what you're up to...
Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities
The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security...
Magecart Hacker Group Hits 17,000 Domains—and Counting
Magecart hackers are casting the widest possible net to find vulnerable ecommerce sites—but their method could lead to even bigger problems...
Zoom Will Fix the Flaw That Let Hackers Hijack Webcams
While it at first dismissed the vulnerability, Zoom says it will release a patch Tuesday night...
States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines
“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers...
What the US Can Learn from Israel and China's Collaboration
Opinion: What we can learn from Israel's surprising technological ties with China...
Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Amazon acquires Wickr, the Senate holds up CISA, and more of the week’s top security news...
How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware
It's a growing threat for individual users and businesses alike—but there are ways to protect yourself...
The Untold History of America’s Zero-Day Market
The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now...
Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims
Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit...
Watch Out for Coronavirus Phishing Scams
At least one email campaign is preying on fears by claiming to offer info about the Wuhan coronavirus...
All the Code Connections Between Russia’s Hackers, Visualized
A sort of constellation chart for Kremlin malware, made by two cybersecurity firms, demonstrates the scale of Russia's distinct hacking operations...
The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite
At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory...
Supermicro Bug Could Let 'Virtual USBs' Take Over Corporate Servers
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers...
The Android 10 Privacy and Security Upgrades You Should Know About
Google's next big Android release will make you safer—especially in ways you can't see...
Watch Robert Mueller’s Statement on the Russia Investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public remarks since the release of his report in April...
Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People
The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall...
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Is Still Calling for an Encryption Backdoor
At a cybercrime conference Thursday, Rod Rosenstein once again decried "going dark."...
The Unfixed Flaw at the Heart of REvil’s Ransomware Spree
Security researchers warned Kaseya about its IT management software in April, but the patches didn't come fast enough to avert last week's disaster...
Facebook Had Years to Fix Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data
Software makers can’t catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature...
5 Simple Ways to Make Your Gmail Inbox Safer
These built-in features definitely protect your data, but they can help keep your inbox tidy too...
An Unfixable Flaw Threatens 5 Years of Intel Chips
Plus: A J. Crew breach, CIA hacking, and more of the week's top security news...
A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH
An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, and more of the week's top security news...
Windows 7 Gets One Last Update For the Road
A Silk Road guilty plea, a UN hack, and more of the week's top security news...
Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?...
Congress Grills Joseph Maguire Over Trump's Whistle-Blower Scandal
Acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire answered Congress's questions about the Ukraine whistle-blower complaint—but not always to satisfaction...
Robert Mueller Speaks, Amazon’s New Echo Show, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Very Bad Sign
A very bad vulnerability in Windows XP could have serious ramifications, even with a patch...
How Zello Became a Lifeline for Venezuelans Under Maduro
A dedicated community of Zello moderators uses the voice-chat app to bring news and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis...
Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms
The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets...
Forging a Relationship With Tyler Barriss, the Internet’s Most Hated Swatter
Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes...
How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test
If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround...
DIY Gun Activist Cody Wilson Accused of Child Sexual Assault
A Texas court issued a warrant for the Defense Distributed founder's arrest on Wednesday...
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know...
A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
An apparent supply chain attack exploited Kaseya's IT management software to encrypt a "monumental" number of victims all at once...
A Homecoming Queen Was Arrested for Alleged Vote Hacking
Plus: A mysterious zero-day spree, a high-profile hacker indictment, and more of the week’s top security news...
There's a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS
The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release...