Privacy and Security

A pair of security researchers revealed several zero-day vulnerabilities in Zoom in recent days that would have let…

Cybercriminals have been pushing Facebook users to download a Clubhouse app “for PC,” something that doesn’t exist.…

Earlier this week, folks in tech-savvy onlookers were utterly scandalized when a tweet thread from former Federal…

Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital…

For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make acquisition after acquisition and product update after…

Until recently, the carding store Swarmshop was a popular, illicit online market where cybercriminals could go to…

Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches in…

So-called pirating apps have been around for years—and they have only gained popularity since covid-19 put us all…

With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all…

Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is…

A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI.…

The U.S. Navy still has no idea who sent a swarm of drones to buzz warships off the coast of California in July…

As Google continues to upgrade its privacy and security policies, it’s now making an important change in Android…

The former employee of a Kansas-based water treatment facility is facing decades in prison after allegedly having…

LexisNexis—the data-harvesting company that you might know as a key tool for researchers and reporters across a caval…

A number of prominent U.S. colleges have become the newest, unlucky recipients of a cybersecurity migraine currently…

Police in the U.S., including officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have been…

Look out, n00bs. Hackers are apparently deploying fake game “cheats” for Call of Duty: Warzone. They sure won’t help…

Beware a newly discovered malicious app that pretends to update your phone but, in reality, is just a giant spyware…

A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS…