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...

Google Is Finally Making Chrome Extensions More Secure

Third-party developers don't always build extensions with security best practices in mind. Now Google is taking steps to better protect user data...

Robert Mueller Speaks, Amazon’s New Echo Show, and More News

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Mueller's Bottom Line: Indicting Trump Wasn't Even an Option

Robert Mueller outlined the conclusions of the Russia investigation and made clear, in his own obtuse way, that the next steps belong to Congress...

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...

Facebook Removes a Fresh Batch of Iran-Linked Fake Accounts

Outside researchers tipped Facebook off that a social media network was pushing Iranian interests, posing as journalists, and even impersonating politicians...

To Fight Deepfakes, Researchers Built a Smarter Camera

One way to tell if an image has been faked? Bake the tamper-proofing into the camera itself...

All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It

Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from knowing your location, web browsing, and more...

Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps

Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news...

How to Spring Clean Your Digital Clutter to Protect Yourself

You don't have to get your hands dirty to do the most important spring cleaning of the year...

885 Million First American Financial Records Exposed Online

Real estate giant First American left Social Security numbers, tax documents, and more publicly available...

The Danger in Assange’s Charges, a Memory Experiment, and More News

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The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom

By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...

Facial Recognition Has Already Reached Its Breaking Point

Facial recognition technology has proliferated unchecked in the US so far. Congress finally seems ready to do something about it...

Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005

On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years...

Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems

Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them vulnerable to attack...

We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices

It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff...

Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are incredibly convenient—but increasingly the root of a lot of security lapses...

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail

Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news...

The False Promise of “Lawful Access” to Private Data

Opinion: As online extremism migrates to real-world violence, some suggest letting law enforcement intercept encrypted messages. But that’s a dangerous proposition...

Goznym Takedown Shows the Anatomy of a Modern Cybercriminal Supply Chain

Charges against 10 men across Eastern Europe associated with the Goznym malware crew reveal global law enforcement's reach—and its limits...

The FCC's Robocall Plan Sounds Awfully Familiar

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a set of rules to combat robocalls. Don't get your hopes up quite yet...

Google Will Replace Titan Security Key Over a Bluetooth Flaw

Google will replace any Titan BLE branded security key, after disclosing that a nearby attacker could use it to compromise your accounts...

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...

WhatsApp Was Hacked, Your Computer Was Exposed, and More News

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Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets from Millions of PCs

Two different groups of researchers found another speculative execution attack that can steal all the data a CPU touches...

How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call

All it took to compromise a smartphone was a single phone call over WhatsApp. The user didn't even have to pick up the phone...