Hackers Made an App That Kills to Prove a Point

Medtronic and the FDA left an insulin pump with a potentially deadly vulnerability on the market—until researchers who found the flaw showed how bad it could be...

How To Clear Out Your Zombie Apps and Online Accounts

All those services you signed up for but forgot about? They're a security risk. Here's how to get rid of them...

Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families

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

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...

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...

The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing

As Congress continues to punt on facial recognition, advocacy groups have redoubled their efforts...

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...

A Zoom Flaw Gives Hackers Easy Access to Your Webcam

All it takes is one wrong click, and the popular video conferencing software will put you in a meeting with a stranger...

How to Protect Our Kids' Data and Privacy

Opinion: Kids today have an online presence starting at birth, which raises a host of legal and ethical concerns. We desperately need a new data protection framework...

What Is Credential Dumping?

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

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...

The Biggest Cybersecurity Crises of 2019 So Far

Ransomware attacks, supply chain hacks, escalating tensions with Iran—the first six months of 2019 have been anything but boring...

Airport Facial Recognition, How Abusers Exploit Basic Apps, and More News

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The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims

To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me...

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...