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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
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
'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
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
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...
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...
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...
Mueller Report Says No Collusion, Barr Raises a Million Questions
In a convoluted letter to Congress, Attorney General William Barr summarized Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation and said he won't charge President Trump with obstruction...
Kushner Used WhatsApp, a Very Bad Database Leak, and More Security News This Week
The president's daughter and son-in-law used private messaging against the rules, and more security news this week...
FEMA Leaked Data From 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors
The Homeland Security Department inspector general released a damning report about FEMA's inability to safeguard the personal info of the people it helped...
The Mueller Report Is Here, Apple's Big Event, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
The Mueller Report Is Done. Now Comes the Hard Part
Special counsel Robert Mueller finished his investigation into the 2016 presidential election Friday...
Utah Just Became a Leader in Digital Privacy
Opinion: Utah legislators recently voted to pass landmark legislation in support of a new privacy law. Statehouses across the country should take notes...
Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone
Catch up on the most important tech news today in two minutes or less...
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now
Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them...
Researchers Built an ‘Online Lie Detector.’ Honestly, That Could Be a Problem
Critics point out serious flaws in a study promising an "online polygraph," with potential to create deep biases...
In the Face of Danger, We’re Turning to Surveillance
From the Rose Bowl to upstate New York, people are turning to surveillance systems in the face America’s inability to meaningfully address gun violence...
An Android Vulnerability Went Unfixed for Over Five Years
Older Android devices—of which there are over 100 million still in use—will remain exposed...
The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump
Nancy Pelosi’s comments about impeachment acknowledge a political reality: Nothing the Mueller probe has revealed so far has moved the GOP substantially...
Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People
The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall...
Beto O'Rourke Was Part of an Infamous '90s Hacker Group
The presidential candidate's first constituency was Cult of the Dead Cow...
Most Android Antivirus Apps Are Garbage
Fraudulent and ineffective antivirus apps persist on the Google Play Store, and it's unclear whether they'll ever totally go away...
How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules...
When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack...
Internal Docs Show How ICE Gets Surveillance Help From Local Cops
Documents obtained by the ACLU show how ICE uses unofficial channels to access billions of license plate location data points—including some sanctuary cities...
Firefox Send Is an Easy Way to Share Large Files Securely
Mozilla has made public an encrypted file-sharing service with a self-destruct twist...
Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid
Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch...
US Tracks Journalists, Chelsea Manning Goes to Jail, and More Security News This Week
A surprisingly common password, an NSA spy program winds down, and more security news this week...
New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases
Truth in a Post Truth World takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists...
Turn On Auto-Updates Everywhere You Can
Meltdowns like the Chrome zero day bug show why enabling auto-updates can be the wisest choice for many consumers...
An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses...
9 Questions for Facebook After Zuckerberg’s Privacy Manifesto
On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for a very different Facebook—with a lot of unknowns about how to get there...
Machine Learning Can Use Tweets to Automatically Spot Critical Security Flaws
Researchers built an AI engine that uses tweets to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities with 86 percent accuracy...