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The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free...
Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Videogame Logic Engine to Protect Macs
A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system's own indicators, and some videogame magic, to keep a lookout...
States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines
“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers...
Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory...
Backstory: An Alphabet Moon Shot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data
Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots...
House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks
The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into President Trump includes the now defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans...
The Overlooked Security Threat of Sign-In Kiosks
New research from IBM shows that several visitor management systems had a rash of vulnerabilities...
The Air Force Wants to Give You Its Credit Card
Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to WIRED's editor in chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day...
Trump's North Korea Summit Inspires Spearphishing
Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news...
Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own
The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work...
A Second Life for the 'Do Not Track' Setting—With Teeth
In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to play in enforcing privacy regulations...
Michael Cohen's Credibility Has Never Been More Certain
In his testimony before Congress Wednesday, Trump's former fixer gave the most convincing narrative yet about Trump's presidential run...
FTC Hits TikTok With Record $5.7 Million Fine Over Children’s Privacy
The social media app will pay $5.7 million to settle the allegations, and be required to delete videos uploaded by anyone under 13...
Watch Michael Cohen Testify Before Congress Right Here
On Wednesday morning, the former Trump fixer will appear before the House Oversight Committee to share everything he knows about Trump's business practices...
Email Scammers Ditch Wire Transfers for iTunes Gift Cards
Business email compromise attacks are increasingly targeting nonprofits, and bilking them for iTunes gift cards...
Michael Cohen's House Testimony: 5 Key Takeaways from the Prepared Statement
Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight committee tells a new story about Trump and Russia...
US Hackers' Strike on Russian Trolls Sends a Message—but What Kind?
US Cyber Command's takedown of the Internet Research Agency's network may be more about signaling than immediate effects...
Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location
New research shows how nearby attackers can see where you are, send you spoofed carrier messages, and more...
Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into 'Bare Metal' Cloud Computers
Researchers point a tough-to-fix in some cloud computing setups: hackable firmware...
Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices
By officially certifying the FIDO2 standard, the mobile OS will soon allow logins to sites and services without having to put in a password...
A Hidden Nest Secure Mic, Facebook's Dead VPN, and More Security News This Week
The 2020 disinformation campaigns have started, DrainerBot is coming for your smartphone's battery, and more security news this week...
The (Non-Trump) Surprise Inside Andrew McCabe's Memoir
In The Threat, the former FBI deputy director paints a familiar portrait of Trump, but deepens our understanding of a dark time for agency...
The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers and Assassins
Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency...
A 'Smart Wall' Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis
A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one, but it raises civil liberties concerns that are largely absent from the debate...
7 Scenarios for How the Mueller Probe Might End
Reports say that the special counsel will be "wrapping up" his investigation soon. Here's what that might actually mean...
Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy Setting ASAP
Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app...
ATM Hacking Has Gotten So Easy, the Malware's a Game
A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine...
Russian Hackers Go From Foothold to Full-On Breach in 19 Minutes
A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours...
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders...
The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified...
What Is Credential Stuffing?
What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They're frequently used to try to break into users' other accounts across the internet...
Chinese Surveillance, Facebook Tracking, and More Security News This Week
3-D printed rifles, Iran missile hacking, and more of the week's top security news...
Hacks, Nudes, and Breaches: It's Been a Rough Month for Dating Apps
Trouble at OKCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Jack'd have made February a bad stretch for romantics online...
Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That Doesn’t Exist
As he declared a national emergency Friday, President Trump repeatedly dismissed statistics and reports produced by his own government...
Trump's Wall Won't Solve a National Emergency. It Is One
President Trump has signaled that in addition to signing a congressional spending bill, he will declare a national emergency to fund his misbegotten border wall...
Don’t Get Your Valentine an Internet-Connected Sex Toy
Mozilla expands its “Privacy Not Included” gift guide to the bedroom: It’s all sexy fun and games until someone hacks a WiFi-enabled butt plug...
US Air Force Defector Allegedly Helped Iran Hack Americans
In an astonishing indictment, the DOJ details how Monica Witt allegedly turned on her former counterintelligence colleagues...
1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018
And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League...
What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet
State media has reported that Russia will attempt to disconnect from the global internet this spring. That's going to be tricky...
The Xiaomi M365 Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop
A hacker can accelerate Xiaomi M365 scooter—or hit the breaks—while a rider is on it...
Amber Authenticate Protects Video Footage From Deepfakes and Tampering
Many of the body cameras worn by police are woefully vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. Amber Authenticate wants to fix that—with the blockchain...
Why the US Needs a Strategy for AI
Opinion: With its American AI Initiative, the White House is devoting funding, research, and data infrastructure to boosting our prowess in artificial intelligence...
Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown Mess
The shutdown may have ended two weeks ago, but federal cybersecurity professionals will be coping with its impact for a long time to come...
An Apple-Hacking Teen, SIM-Swap Indictments, and More Security News This Week
Location data scandals, a Zcash bug, and more of the week's top security news...
Twitter Still Can't Keep Up With Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds
Iowa researchers built an AI engine they say can spot abusive apps on Twitter months before the service itself identifies them...
Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies...
Go Update iOS Right Now To Fix That Very Bad FaceTime Bug
Apple has just released iOS 12.1.4, which fixes a group chat FaceTime bug that let callers eavesdrop on targets...
Google's Making It Easier to Encrypt Even Cheap Android Phones
Adiantum will help millions of low-end Android smartphones receive the same encryption protections as flagships...
What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us
The special counsel's indictments have so far stopped short of tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in...
The Challenge of America's First Online Census
Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to new risks...