Iranian Hackers Targeted a US Presidential Candidate

A revelation from Microsoft offers a chilling reminder that Russia is not the only country interested in swaying the 2020 election...

The Same Old Encryption Debate Has a New Target: Facebook

Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant...

The Ukraine Whistle-Blower Did Everything Right

The Trump administration's attacks on the whistle-blower aren't just baseless—they could have a corrosive long-term effect...

The Internet’s Horrifying Way to Get Google Apps on Huawei Phones

Just make a Chinese website your device's remote administrator. It'll be fine\!...

How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn't

Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won't make you as invisible as it might sound...

Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy

Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops...

Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk

Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light...

A DoorDash Breach Exposes Data of 4.9 Million Customers

A NotPetya lawsuit, bricked Mac Pros, and more of the week's top security news...

What Past Whistle-Blowers Think of the Trump-Ukraine Complaint

Two former intelligence community whistle-blowers say the life of whoever wrote the Trump-Ukraine complaint has been permanently altered...

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...

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...

Trump Still Doesn't Believe Russia Hacked the 2016 Election

Trump has publicly played down Russia’s role in the 2016 election. But even privately, he trusts conspiracy theories more than US intelligence agencies...

Congress Grills the Spy Chief, Google’s Quantum 'Victory,' and More News

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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...

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...

Read the Trump Whistleblower Complaint Right Here

A conversation between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sparked a detailed complaint from an intelligence community whistle-blower. Here it is...

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...

How Trump’s Ukraine Mess Entangled CrowdStrike

A US cybersecurity company became a topic of interest for President Donald Trump in his call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky...

Cloudflare Launches Its Security-Focused Mobile VPN, Again

When the company first launched the Warp VPN, “all hell broke loose,” its CEO says. After a few months of tinkering, Cloudflare wants a do-over...

Trump’s Ukraine Mess Feels a Little Too Familiar

The unfolding drama ties two key threads of the Trump era: foreign interference in US elections and the president's distrust of his own intel agencies...

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...

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 iOS 13 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

Your iPhone just got a major security upgrade. Here are all the ins and outs...

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We All Could Pay a Price for the Latest Slap at Huawei

An international cybersecurity group has evicted the Chinese telecom company to comply with US sanctions. That could allow malware to spread more easily...

On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching You

New research shows that over 2,000 streaming apps track information about your devices—even when you tell them not to...

Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck

By exploiting the WS-Discovery protocol, a new breed of DDoS attack can get a huge rate of return...

A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass

Google Project Zero found and reported a flaw in the widely used password manager...

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...

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...

After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself

In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists...

'Simjacker' Attack Can Track Phones Just by Sending a Text

White house spying, North Korea sanctions, and more of the week's top security news...

What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?

How do you make blockchain and other transactions truly private? With mathematical models known as zero-knowledge proofs...

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...

New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction

A fresh look at the 2016 blackout in Ukraine suggests that the cyberattack behind it was intended to cause far more damage...

It's Time for IoT Security's Next Big Step

Connected devices are more secure than ever. That's still not nearly enough...

281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested in Massive Global Sweep

The most sweeping takedown yet of so-called BEC scammers involved arrests in nearly a dozen countries...

Don't Get Screwed Out of Your Equifax Settlement Money

If you signed up for $125 payout in the Equifax settlement, you just hit another hurdle. But this isn't over...

How Safari and iMessage Have Made iPhones Less Secure

Security researchers say iOS's security woes stem in part from Apple putting too much trust in its own software's code...

Red Flag Laws Are Red Herrings of Gun Control

Opinion: There’s little data on the effectiveness of mental health reporting laws to prevent mass shootings...

An Unprecedented Cyberattack Hit the US Power Grid

Exposed Facebook phone numbers, an XKCD breach, and more of the week's top security news...

The Windows 10 Privacy Settings You Should Check Right Now

Whether you're new to Windows 10 or have been using it for years, take a minute to lock down your privacy...

Apple Finally Breaks Its Silence on iOS Hacking Campaign

In its first public statement since Google revealed a sophisticated attack against iOS devices, Apple defended its security measures...

Cold War Analogies are Warping Tech Policy

Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech...

Google Wants to Help Tech Companies Know Less About You

By releasing its homegrown differential privacy tool, Google will make it easier for any company to boost its privacy bona fides...

Why 'Zero Day' Android Hacking Now Costs More Than iOS Attacks

Brokers of so-called zero day exploits are paying out more for Android than iOS—which would have been unthinkable until recently...