How Tech Helped the NSC Change the US Way of War

The National Security Council has gained enormous influence over the last few decades—thanks in no small part to better tech...

A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

Researchers have discovered a way to break one of Cisco's most critical security features, which puts countless networks at potential risk...

Robert Mueller Won't Testify Next Week After All

Facial recognition run amok, antivirus hacks, and more of the week's top security news...

DOJ Says Chinese Hackers Attacked Anthem, but Not Why

For years, China was rumored to be behind the health insurance company's massive data breach, but now the Justice Department is noticeably silent on the hackers' motives and affiliation...

Feds Dismantled the Dark-Web Drug Trade—but It's Already Rebuilding

After recent high-profile dark-web drug market takedowns, new vendors are already filling the void...

Inside China’s Surveillance Crackdown on Uyghurs

In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of...

Hackers Stole $40 Million From Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges got hit, as thieves nabbed $40 million of bitcoin—along with two-factor user codes and API tokens...

Artificial Intelligence May Not 'Hallucinate' After All

What makes an algorithm mistake a helicopter for a gun? Researchers think the answer has to do more with man than machine...

How to Limit How Long Google Keeps Your Data

Google has a new feature that lets you delete your web and app activity after three months. Here's how to use it...

The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet

Even the Central Intelligence Agency has a so-called onion service now...

The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences...

The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies' Hands

How a "secret" hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc...

What Israel's Strike on Hamas Hackers Means For Cyberwar

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a building that allegedly housed an active Hamas hacking group—a potential first for cyberwar...

What Is Application Shielding?

Security firms are increasingly touting application shielding as an important layer of defense. But it may be better suited to DRM...

Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain

Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...

A Hacking Spree, a Fight for Open Internet, and More News

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A Mysterious Hacker Group Is On a Supply Chain Hijacking Spree

A group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned the software of at least six companies in just the last three years...

Hacktivists Are on the Rise—but Less Effective Than Ever

Groups like Anonymous are still trying to make waves in Sudan and elsewhere, but the old tools don't work as well as they used to...

The Air Force Will Embed Airmen at Carnegie Mellon University

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson expounds on surveillance, drones, and the cutting edge of plane-painting...

Trump’s World Still Faces 16 Known Criminal Probes

Mueller is done and Rosenstein is on his way out the door, but federal and state authorities around the country are still investigating the president and those in his orbit...

Security Experts Unite Over the Right to Repair

Securepairs.org is pushing back against a tech industry that wants independent repair legislation to be scary...

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis

If you're going up against an army of the undead, maybe plan a little better...

Hackers Found a Freaky New Way to Kill Your Car

Mueller report fallout, a biometrics database, and more of the week's top security news...

The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using

While foreign phone carriers are sharing data to stop SIM swap fraud, US carriers are dragging feet...

GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains

You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...

‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan...

Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames

An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream...

Don't Praise the Sri Lankan Government for Blocking Facebook

Social media can provide vital information in a crisis, and there's evidence that blocking it does more harm than good...

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who's generating your cryptocurrency keys...

14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed

When you dig into the Mueller report, a lot of important details start to jump out...

Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a 'Useful Idiot'

The special counsel's report exposes the extent to which not just Russia but Donald Trump's own associates grifted the president...

Hackers Can Tell What Netflix 'Bandersnatch' Choices You Make

Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices...

Facebook Fails, Russian Hacks, and More Security News This Week

The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news...

Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump

Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder...

Read the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password

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The Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On

The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says...

A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers and Dumping Their Code

Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets...

The Mueller Report Is Out. Read It Here

Attorney general William Barr has released the redacted Mueller report to Congress. You can read all 300-plus pages of it right here...

Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals

Investigators from the New York district attorney's office stumbled across dark web drug vendor "sinmed" thanks to suspicious ATM transactions...

Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...

Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support

Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft's customer support platform...

Julian Assange, a Big Yahoo Fine, and More Security News This Week

Plus: Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, Silk Road 2's founder, and more of the week's top security news...

Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts

A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t...

Julian Assange Arrested, *Jeopardy!* Game Theory, and More News

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How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible

With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship...

Breaking Down the Julian Assange Hacking Case

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested, and now faces extradition to the United States. But not for leaking classified information...

William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller Report Release

Attorney general William Barr will have tremendous sway over how much of the Mueller report the public can see. Right now, it doesn't look promising...

Google DLP Makes It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves

Google's Data Loss Prevention tool finds and redacts sensitive data in the cloud. A new user interface makes now makes it more broadly accessible...

A Peek Into the Toolkit of the Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers

Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs' intrusions...

Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years

The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years...