Signal's "Sealed Sender" Is a Clever New Way to Shield Your Identity

"Sealed sender" gives the leading encrypted messaging app an important boost, hiding metadata around who sent a given message...

'Fortnite' Scams Are Even Worse Than You Thought

YouTube videos with millions of views. Nearly 5,000 bogus websites. V-Bucks scammers have gotten out of control...

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect's Gab Posts Are Part of a Pattern

It may never be clear why Robert Bowers chose to carry out a violent attack. But his social media activity mirrors an increase in anti-Semitism on the internet...

How Feds Tracked Down Mail Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc

At a press conference Friday, officials detailed how they identified and found Cesar Sayoc, who has been arrested in connection with a series of mail bombs targeting prominent liberals and CNN...

Iran's New Facebook Trolls Are Using Russia's Playbook

Facebook took down another Iranian-based network of phony accounts Friday. This new campaign focused on American politics—and it was successful...

The Feds Just Hit Notorious Swatter Tyler Barriss With 46 New Charges. He Intends to Plead Guilty

Prosecutors in California have filed 46 new counts against Tyler Barriss for bomb threats, fraud, and swatting incidents nationwide. He’s angling to get the case transferred to Kansas and intends to plead guilty...

Trump's Personal iPhone Would Be a National Security Risk

By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy...

I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming

Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice...

Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm

News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...

How Mail Bombs Get Intercepted—And What Happens Next

Devices that might be explosives targeting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and more all are caught before reaching their final destinations. Here's how...

Don't Believe Everything You See About the Migrant Caravan

A migrant caravan traveling through Mexico is the latest news event to be weaponized online...

Russia Linked to Triton Industrial Control Malware

Like so many other internet misdeeds, the notorious Triton malware appears to have originated in Moscow...

Paper and the Case for Going Low-Tech in the Voting Booth

When considered as a form of tech, paper has a killer feature set: It’s intuitive, it doesn’t crash, and it doesn’t need a power source...

It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly

A $1.50 wager on a "Call of Duty" match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry...

Forging a Relationship With Tyler Barriss, the Internet’s Most Hated Swatter

Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes...

The Titan M Chip Powers Up Pixel 3 Security

Google's latest flagship smartphone includes the Titan M, a security-focused chip that keeps users safe against sophisticated attacks...

Apple Data Downloads, A Dating App for Trump Fans, and More Security News This Week

North Korean bitcoin theft, Fake FCC complaints, and more security news this week...

To Curb Terrorist Propaganda Online, Look to YouTube. No, Really.

Opinion: Despite YouTube’s crackdown, extremist groups are still exploiting other Google platforms...

Russian Trolls Are Still Playing Both Sides—Even With the Mueller Probe

The latest indictment against Russian trolls shows how they sowed division in the US on wedge issues, including the investigation into their activity...

A Trove of Facebook Data Is a Spammer's Dream and Your Nightmare

A new report suggests that spammers, not nation states, may have been behind the Facebook hack. That could be even worse news...

The Mysterious Return of Years-Old APT1 Malware

Security researchers have discovered a new instance code associated with APT1, a notorious Chinese hacking group that disappeared in 2013...

Helm Wants You to Control Your Own Data Again

Helm hopes to make running your own private, encrypted server easy for everyone...

Robert Mueller Has Already Told You Everything You Need To Know

With the exception of President Trump’s legal team, no one has been watching the Mueller investigation more closely than Garrett Graff...

Kanye's Password, a WhatsApp Bug, and More Security News This Week

A grey hat hacking hero, bad boat news, and more security news this week...

Fake Adobe Flash Installers Come With a Little Malware Bonus

A clever new cryptomining scheme downloads the latest version of Adobe for you, but adds malware to the bargain...

How Facebook Hackers Compromised 30 Million Accounts

Facebook has revealed more details about the unprecedented breach of its platform—including how hackers got away with the access tokens of 30 million users...

How to Check If Your Facebook Account Got Hacked—And How Badly

Facebook Friday offered more details about its recent breach. Here's how to see if you were affected...

No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right

If Facebook and Google's recent security debacles proved anything, it's that disclosure is tricky business...

How the US Halted China’s Cybertheft—Using a Chinese Spy

For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here's the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while...

Pentagon Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds

A new report says the Department of Defense "likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity."...

Google+ Shuts Down Over Breach as Google Offers New Privacy Features

Google got caught hiding a privacy issue affecting 500,000 users on the same day it rolled out privacy protections...

A Good Password Law, Hardware Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week...

Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection

The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016...

A 'Scarily Simple' Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers at Risk

The most straightforward insecurities can sometimes be the riskiest...

The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

Sales intelligence firm Apollo left a "staggering amount" of exposed online, including 125 million email addresses and nine billion data points...

Why Supply Chain Hacks Are a Cybersecurity Worse Case Scenario

A blockbuster report from Bloomberg says that China has compromised servers used by major US companies. It's a problem that experts have long feared, and still don't know how to resolve...

How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Their Victims Up Close

A new indictment details how Russian agents camped outside hotels when remote hacking efforts weren't enough...

Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac

By only checking a file's code signature when you install it—and never again—macOS gives malware a chance to evade detection indefinitely...

How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test

If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround...

Intra Gives Older Versions of Android Important DNS Protections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw is using a new app to give DNS encryption protections to any Android smartphone from the last seven years...

The Presidential Text Alert Has a Long, Strange History

While the presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first of its kind, it's part of a decades-long lineage of official government Doomsday alerts...

Hackers Can Stealthily Avoid Traps Set to Defend Amazon's Cloud

In the cat and mouse game of protecting cloud services, attackers find a sneaky advantage...

The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure

Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse...

How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones

Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia...

Why Cops Can Use Face ID to Unlock Your iPhone

For the first publicly documented time, law enforcement has used Face ID to forcibly unlock someone's iPhone. It won't be the last...

Facebook Wins, Facebook Losses, and More Security News This Week

The Facebook breach, 3-D printed guns on Broadway, and more security news this week...

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook

The social networking giant confirmed Friday that sites you use Facebook to login to could have been accessed as a result of its massive breach...

Facebook's Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know

Up to 50 million Facebook users were affected—and possibly 40 million more—when hackers compromised the social network's systems...

Voting Machines Are Still Absurdly At Risk

A new report details dozens of vulnerabilities across seven models of voting machines—all of which are currently in use...

Russia’s Elite Fancy Bear Hackers Have a Clever New Trick

For the first time, a so-called UEFI rootkit has been spotted in the wild. And it appears to come from Russia...