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...

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...