Russian ‘Ghost Ships’ Identified Near the Nord Stream Blasts
In December 2020, security giant Mandiant revealed it had been hacked. Its disclosure was the first public sign of the SolarWinds hack, a Russian-orchestrated supply chain…
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Doctors Behind Mifepristone Ban Called ‘Christians’ a Top Threat
In a declaration in federal court in 2021, Quentin Van Meter, the president of the American College of Pediatricians, described the organization as a “secular,…
Meta Moves to Counter New Malware and Repeat Account Takeovers
The social media giant Meta warned today that it sees many malware actors spreading their attack infrastructure across multiple platforms, to make it more difficult…
Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts
Google is announcing a major effort to let its personal account holders log in with the password replacement known as “passkeys.” The feature launches today…
American College of Pediatricians Leak Exposes 10,000 Confidential Files
While the material is not expressly religious, it is clearly aimed at painting same-sex marriage as aberrant and immoral behavior. Physicians lobbied by the group…
With 288 Arrests, Feds Reveal a Widening Dragnet of Dark-Web Busts
A decade ago, US law enforcement was content to swat down a dark-web black market for drugs and send its dealers and buyers scrambling to…
SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
But they had been at it only 24 hours when they found the passage they’d been looking for: a single file that appeared to be…
The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks
Lawmakers remain perplexed over how all these classified documents keep getting out, in part because, at the Capitol, sensitive documents are kept under lock, armed guard,…
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Fixed Zero-Day Security Flaws
Tech giants Apple, Microsoft, and Google each fixed major security flaws in April, many of which were already being used in real-life attacks. Other firms…
The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach
Ransomware gangs have long sought pain points where their extortion demands have the greatest leverage. Now an investigation from NBC News has made clear what…
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google’s Search Results
Last year, Google expanded the ways you can submit removal requests for search results containing personal info. Before this change, people had to meet a very…
DOJ Detected SolarWinds Breach Months Before Public Disclosure
In November 2020, months after the DOJ completed the mitigation of its breach, Mandiant discovered that it had been hacked, and traced its breach to…