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An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach
Collection 1 appears to be the biggest public breach yet, with millions of unique passwords sitting out in the open...
Trump Must Be a Russian Agent; the Alternative Is Too Awful
We know a lot about the “what” of the Mueller probe’s findings. The crucial questions now focus on the “why.”...
A 'Fortnite' Vulnerability Exposed Accounts to Takeover
Epic Games has since patched the attack, which would have allowed attackers to view account info, listen in on in-game conversations, and more...
As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify
From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity...
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...
How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence
Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers...
Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week
A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week...
A Worldwide Hacking Spree Uses DNS Trickery to Nab Data
Security researchers suspect that Iran has spent the last two years pilfering data from telecoms, governments, and more...
Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think
Researchers built a tool that can predict where you live and work, as well as other sensitive information, just by using geotagged tweets...
Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?
Months after Sprint, AT, T-Mobile, and Verizon promised to stop selling user location data, the practice continues...
A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps
Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps...
Paul Manafort Is Bad at Basic Tech, From Passwords to PDFs
The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security...
A YubiKey for iOS Will Soon Free Your iPhone From Passwords
Yubico has finally gotten the green light from Apple to make a hardware authentication token that works on iPhones and iPads...
Mueller Investigation 2019: Indictments, Witnesses, and More
The special counsel has lots of unfinished business on his to-do list this year, including a final report. Here's a rundown...
The 'Twinning' Fad, the Weather Channel, and More Security News
A rogue PewDiePie fan, Marriott hack details, and more of the week's top security news...
A Major Hacking Spree Gets Personal for German Politicians
Hundreds of German politicians who have had their private digital lives exposed online are victims of a hacking campaign with unclear motives...
The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre
One year after a pair of devastating processor vulnerabilities were first disclosed, Intel's still dealing with the fallout...
Tor Is Easier Than Ever. Time to Give It a Try
Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever...
The Worst Hacks of 2018: Marriott, Atlanta, Quora, and More
From the Marriott and Facebook meltdowns to state-sponsored assaults, 2018 was an eventful year for cybercrime...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2018: Trump, Zuck and More
From Donald Trump to Russian hackers, these are the most dangerous characters we've been watching online in 2018...
We’re all Just Starting to Realize the Power of Personal Data
This year revealed consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their information online...
The Most-Read Security Stories of 2018
This year saw the most devastating cyberattack in history, a gang of teen hackers, and so much Mueller news...
Privacy Law Showdown Between Congress and Tech Looms in 2019
Lawmakers spend the better part of 2018 talking tough to tech companies. Now the pressure is on for Congress to act...
Pan Am Flight 103: Robert Mueller’s 30-Year Search for Justice
Known as the Lockerbie bombing, in December 1988 a bomb downed a Pan Am jet, leaving 270 dead. It was the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists. As the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Robert Mueller oversaw the case. And for him, it was personal...
How China Helped Make the Internet Less Free in 2018
Tech companies, democratic governments, and civil society need to work together to fight back against growing surveillance and censorship online...
Cryptojacking Took Over the Internet in 2018
Move over, ransomware. Cryptojacking is officially the scourge of the internet...
A NASA Hack, a PewDiePie Fan, and More Security News
Amazon sends Echo recordings to the wrong person, Russians tried to get US Treasury dirt on Clinton donors, and more of the week's top security news...
In Project Maven's Wake, the Pentagon Seeks AI Tech Talent
The Defense Department wants to use AI in warfare. In the aftermath of Project Maven, it still needs Big Tech’s help...
How China’s Elite APT10 Hackers Stole the World’s Secrets
A new DOJ indictment outlines how Chinese hackers allegedly compromised data from companies in a dozen countries in a single intrusion...
Hacking Diplomatic Cables Is Expected. Exposing Them Is Not
Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered...
A Devious Phishing Scam Targets Apple App Store Customers
Be on the lookout for emails that claim to be from the App Store...
What the US Can Learn from Israel and China's Collaboration
Opinion: What we can learn from Israel's surprising technological ties with China...
The Iran Hacks Cybersecurity Experts Feared May Be Here
An uptick in potentially Iran-related hacking since the nuclear deal collapsed spells trouble for the US and allies...
Twitter Abuse Toward Women Is Rampant, Amnesty Report Says
Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse, Amnesty International crowdsources its own data and finds that the platform is especially toxic for black women...
Russia's IRA Targeted Black Americans, Exploiting Racial Tensions
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans...
How Instagram Became the Russian IRA's Go-To Social Network
A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter...
How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election...
Facebook or YouTube Down? What We All Do When Sites Crash
What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls? Spoiler: We don’t log off—we just scurry off to different sometimes darker corners of the web...
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations
The investigation into Russian interference and Donald Trump has sprung so many offshoots, it's hard to keep track. Here's a comprehensive list. It's long...
Taylor Swift's Facial Recognition, the Year's Worst Passwords, and More Security News This Week
Chinese hackers targeting the Navy, charity scammers, and more security news this week...
Facebook Exposed 6.8 Million Users' Photos to Cap Off a Terrible 2018
In the latest in its long string of 2018 incidents, Facebook let developers access the private photos of millions of users...
At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself
The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data...
Nationwide Bomb Threats Look Like New Spin on an Old Bitcoin Scam
Apparent bitcoin scammers caused chaos across the US Thursday, radically escalating longstanding tactics...
Facebook Bug Bounty Program Makes Biggest Reward Payout Yet
Despite Cambridge Analytica and a damaging hack, Facebook's bug bounty program offers a bright spot...
9 Trumpworld Figures Who Should Fear Mueller the Most
After Michael Cohen's sentencing, plenty more people and entities in Trump's orbit potentially sit in the special counsel's crosshairs...
If China Hacked Marriott, 2014 Marked a Full-on Assault
It increasingly appears that China was behind the Marriott hack, making 2014 a landmark year in cyberattacks against the US...
Google+ Exposed Data of 52.5 Million Users and Will Shut Down in April
A month after Google had already decided to shut down Google+, a new bug made its problems much, much worse...
Quora Hacked, Moscow Ransomware, and More Security News This Week
China accusations, Eastern European bank heists, and more of the week's top security news...
Manafort and Cohen Sentencing Documents Put Donald Trump in Spotlight
The Mueller investigation has a long way to go, but the worst case scenario seems increasingly likely...
Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy
Australia has passed a law that would require companies to weaken their encryption, a move that could reverberate globally...