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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...
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why...
A New Google Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords
“Password Checkup” isn’t a password manager but a simple tool that warns you if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in data breaches...
A Facebook Crackdown, Amazon Facial Recognition, and More Security News This Week
Hackers use SS7 flaws to rob banks, Japan goes after IoT vulnerabilities, and more security news this week...
Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive
Until Apple revoked its privileges Wednesday, Facebook was paying iOS users $20 a month to download and install the data-sucking application...
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
Can a trio of privacy advocates effect change from within Facebook—or will they be stifled by corporate bureaucracy?...
Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records
The so-called Collections 1-5 represent a gargantuan, patched-together Frankenstein of rotting personal data...
The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself
Tuesday's worldwide threats briefing to Congress outline numerous concerns for US security—many of which Donald Trump has inflamed or denied...
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why...
Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug
Group FaceTime chats let people eavesdrop on whoever they called, a bug so bad that Apple pulled the plug until it comes up with a fix...
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."...
A Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling, Supply Chain Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news...
The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Chats
Facebook's effort to combine its major chat platforms could create minefields for users who rely on end-to-end encryption...
The Roger Stone Indictment: 4 Key Takeaways
The indictment of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone allegedly sheds new light on where the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks intersected...
One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data
David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues...
It’s Not Quite Doomsday o’Clock—But It Should Be
Opinion: The apocalyptic clock remains fixed at two minutes to midnight—as close as we've ever been to catastrophe. That's not close enough...
Nest Cams Hijacked in the Name of PewDiePie and North Korea Pranks
In separate incidents, hackers exploit poor password hygiene to terrify camera owners...
Jargon Watch: Stochastic Terrorism Lets Bullies Operate in Plain Sight
It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies...
How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out
Sharing is caring. But it's worth checking if your streaming accounts have picked up any suspicious stragglers along the way...
DNC Accuses Russia, ACLU Sues ICE, and More Security News This Week
Trump dominated security headlines this week, but there's plenty of other news to catch up on...
If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming
An explosive new report from Buzzfeed News makes the impeachment of Donald Trump not just possible, but likely...
Trump's Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves
The Trump administration has presented its Missile Defense Review, and yes, there are lasers...
How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children
Ad hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse...
Be Careful Using Bots on Telegram
Introducing a bot to a secure Telegram conversation downgrades the level of encryption—without providing any visual cues...
How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again
OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity...