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

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...

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...

A New Breed of ATM Hackers Gets in Through a Bank’s Network

Innovations in digital payment system attack methods mean the rash of heists isn’t over...

How Android Fought the Chamois Botnet—and Won

The Chamois botnet once infected 20 million Android devices. Here's how Google finally tore it up...

An iOS App That Secretly Spies on You, And More News

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'Exodus' Spyware Posed as a Legit iOS App

Researchers had already found a spyware app called Exodus plaguing Android. Now it has shown up on iPhones...

The Robocall Crisis Will Never Be Totally Fixed

Believe it or not, the robocall crisis has stabilized. But like email spam, it's never going to go away entirely...

Facebook Won't Stop Being Sketchy, and More Security News This Week

Plus: Mar-a-Lago mishaps, Airbnb's creepy camera problem, tax-season phishing scams, and more...

Facebook Let Dozens of Cybercrime Groups Operate in Plain Sight

Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches...

Filing Your Taxes? Watch Out for Phishing Scams

Online scammers love to target taxpayers, and their schemes range from posing as the IRS to pushing malware and fake tech support...

Facebook Exposed Data Again, but This Viral Cat Can Save Lives

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Mar-a-Lago's Security Problems Go Way Beyond a Thumb Drive

A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersecurity risks...

It’s Time to End the NSA’s Metadata Collection Program

Opinion: Congress needs to pull the plug and end the authority for the CDR program...

Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records

A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers...

Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware

Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow...

Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue

Opinion: Elizabeth Warren endorsed Right to Repair for farm equipment, pushing the cause to a new level of prominence...

Google Play Store’s Malware Problem, and More Security News This Week

Plus, Russia cracks down on VPNs, Microsoft cracks down on Iranian hackers, and more of the week's top security news...

Huawei's Problem Isn't Chinese Backdoors. It's Buggy Software

A British report finds that Huawei equipment, suspected of including backdoors for China's government, suffers from a lack of "basic engineering competence."...

HTTPS Isn't Always as Secure as It Seems

A surprising number of high-traffic sites have TLS vulnerabilities that are subtle enough for the green padlock to still appear...

Want Apple Card’s Security Benefits? Just Use Apple Pay

Apple says Apple Card offers "a new level" of security, but nearly all those protections are already available if you use Apple Pay...

Mastercard Wades Into Murky Waters With Its New Digital ID

The credit card company has more details about its plan for a decentralized, universal digital ID, but questions remain...

How Zello Became a Lifeline for Venezuelans Under Maduro

A dedicated community of Zello moderators uses the voice-chat app to bring news and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis...

How to Check Your Computer for Hacked Asus Software Update

Hackers compromised Asus’s Live Update tool to distribute malware to almost 1 million people. Here’s how to see if your computer has it...

Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms

The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets...

Machines Shouldn’t Have to Spy On Us to Learn

We need a breakthrough that allows us to reap the benefits of AI without savaging data privacy...

On the Trail of the Robocall King

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions...