Privacy and Security

Sen. Ron Wyden, historically a leading proponent of heightened cybersecurity governance in both public and private…

Large swathes of the East Coast are running out of the precious refined corpse juice used to fuel most of the…

Sometime before the disastrous ransomware attack on its network and the East Coast gas shortage that followed,…

A slew of new wifi vulnerabilities impact everything from cellphones and routers to, well, anything wifi-connected, a…

A ransomware gang, Babuk Locker, has been attempting to extort the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C.…

These days, if you’re arrested and charged with a crime, the first thing cops will likely do is look at the…

Over the weekend, a cyberattack by the Russia-based ransomware gang DarkSide managed to hamstring America’s largest…

Cyberattacks are rarely useful to anybody except cyber-attackers, but a recent ransomware incident has had some…

The Department of Justice quietly seized phone records and tried to obtain email records for three Washington Post…

The willingness of digital forensics firms to sell to pretty much any paying law enforcement agency, regardless of…

If you decide you’re game enough to use Twitter’s new feature to send strangers on the internet money, do your best…

A recently discovered vulnerability inside Qualcomm-produced phone chips could be exploited to gain access to data…

A cryptocurrency scam recently pilfered at least $2 million from WallStreetBets enthusiasts, convincing them that…

Peloton’s had a rough go in the news cycle lately, and not helping matters is the fact that its leaky API allowed…

A public service announcement for anyone who, like me, is using a years-old Dell computer as their primary machine:…

Authorities appear to have uncovered a vast, nefarious conspiracy to electronically rig an American election in…

A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s…

Apple has rushed out fixes to two major vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS 14.5, last month’s update that implemented…

Over the past year, we’ve seen schools shift to digital services at an unprecedented rate as a way to educate kids…

When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one—assigning it to a new phone and,…