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I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy
Opinion: We've been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That's far from certain...
Ransomware Hits Georgia Courts as Municipal Attacks Spread
Almost every month in 2019 so far has seen reports of a local government falling prey to ransomware, but this series of attacks belies an even broader threat...
Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users
Robert Mueller will testify, malware wrecks IoT, and more of the week's top security news...
The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages
You may not have heard of the Border Gateway Protocol, but you definitely know when it goes wrong...
How Hackers Turn Microsoft Excel's Own Features Against It
A pair of recent findings show how hackers can compromise Excel users without any fancy exploits...
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...
I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk
Opinion: Venmo makes sending and receiving money a social affair. But those emoji-laden payment descriptions leave you exposed to cyberattacks...
A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata
In one case, they stole the location and call record data of 20 specific individuals...
The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
The typical response to the onslaught of falsehood is to say, lol, nothing matters. But when so many of us are reaching this point, it really does matter...
He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back
How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down...
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...
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...
Iran Shoots Down a US Drone, Apple Recalls MacBook Batteries, and More News
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Iranian Hackers Launch a New US-Targeted Campaign as Tensions Mount
Three cybersecurity firms have identified phishing attacks stemming from Iran—that may lay the groundwork for something more destructive...
The Global Hawk Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster
The Global Hawk can fly at an altitude of 55,000 feet and stay aloft for 30 hours straight...
Under Trump, Cybersecurity Has Waned
Opinion: Congress has abdicated its role in preventing and punishing cyberattacks. The Cyber Solarium Commission is our best defense...
Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private
Google's Private Join and Compute will let companies compare notes without divulging sensitive information...
How Not To Prevent a Cyberwar With Russia
Former cybersecurity officials warn against a path of aggression that could inflame cyberwar rather than deter it...
A Plan to Stop Breaches With Dead Simple Database Encryption
Database giant MongoDB has a new encryption scheme that should help slow the scourge of breaches...
US to Russia on Nuke Experiments: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
The US is quietly ramping up its plutonium experiments even as Washington raises concerns about Russian testing...
Your Google Calendar Isn't Safe, an Eye-Controlled TV, and More News
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Tricky Scam Plants Phishing Links in Your Google Calendar
Scammers are taking advantage of default calendar settings to try to trick users into clicking malicious links...
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...
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...
Hackers Target US Power, Amazon Clones a Neighborhood, and More News
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The Highly Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers Have Probed the US Grid
The same hackers behind a potentially lethal 2017 oil refinery cyberattack are now sniffing at US electrical utility targets...
Google's Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole
By building security into top-level domains, Google makes it harder for HTTPS to fall short...
Google Says It Won't Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree
Upcoming changes to Chrome has left ad blockers up in arms. But Google insists it won't stifle the extensions...
Jigsaw Bought a Russian Twitter Troll Campaign as an Experiment
In a controversial move, the Alphabet-owned tech firm played both sides of an online argument in Russia with the aim of testing disinformation-for-hire services...
Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online
The company's Project Galileo has helped organizations fend off DDoS and other attacks for the last five years...
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget
Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security...
Radiohead Gets ‘Hacked,’ a T-Mobile/Sprint Hiccup, and More News
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A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots
The long-awaited shift from paperless ballots could make elections more secure...
Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates
You can listen to the OK Computer–era tracks right here...
Hackers Stole a Border Agency Database of Traveler Photos
In compromising a Customs and Border Protection subcontractor, hackers make off with photos of travelers and license plates...
How to Stop Robocalls—or At Least Slow Them Down
Let's be honest, you can't kill robocalls completely. But you can block more of them than you might think...
Cryptocurrency Company Hacks Itself Before Hackers Can Hack It
Microsoft deletes its facial recognition database, hackers hit health care, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
Russia and Iran Plan to Fundamentally Isolate the Internet
Opinion: Russia and Iran’s decisions to build isolated, domestic internets represent a new form of internet fragmentation—one that is far more physical than what we’ve seen before...
Election Security Is Still Hurting at Every Level
With the 2020 election fast approaching, too many problems from 2016 persist...
A Push to Protect Campaigns from Hackers Hits an FEC Roadblock
The FEC may prevent an anti-phishing firm providing its services to campaigns for free or cheap...
Apple's 'Find My' Feature Uses Some Very Clever Cryptography
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple...
Apple and New York Are Changing the Privacy Game, and More News
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'Sign In With Apple' Protects You in Ways Google and Facebook Don't
Apple's new single-sign-on scheme has benefits that its competitors seem unlikely to match...
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...
Much @Stake: The Band of Hackers That Defined an Era
Today's cybersecurity superstars share a common thread—one that leads back to early hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow...
Apple Just Patched a Modem Bug That's Been in Macs Since 1999
A researcher found the 20-year-old flaw by drawing on tricks from a childhood spent tinkering with his parents’ Mac Performa...
Security News This Week: A Teen Waltzed Into Mar-a-Lago
Google's ad-blocking backlash, a privacy lawsuit against Apple, and more of the week's top security news...
The Shenanigans Behind a Stealthy Apple Keychain Attack
An 18-year-old security researcher made headlines earlier this year with KeySteal, a macOS hack. Now he's showing the world how it worked...
Microsoft's BlueKeep Bug Isn't Getting Patched Fast Enough
At this rate, it will take years to fix a critical vulnerability that remains in over 900,000 Windows machines. A worm will arrive much sooner...