Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communication app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his…
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Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small…
Join Our Next Livestream: The War Machine
The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. On March 26, our panel of experts will help make sense of Big Tech’s role…
Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web
Sears department stores have largely disappeared across the United States, but the brand and its appliance repair service are still in business, complete with a…
‘100 Video Calls Per Day’: Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
Other posts list up to 150 potential calls per day. “Filters may be used, but ensure the image is realistic. Live-action videos are permitted; wigs…
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
The United States and Israel’s war with Iran has now been ongoing for two weeks, and the bombs continue to fall. But many of Iran’s…
How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks
Since the United States and Israel first unleashed a broad campaign of air strikes across Iran in late February, the cybersecurity industry has warned that…
US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access
A bipartisan privacy coalition in the United States Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a strict warrant requirement on the FBI’s backdoor searches…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account protections on Wednesday aimed at flagging potentially suspicious activity to…
DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
The US Department of Homeland Security removed multiple career Customs and Border Protection officials from their roles this year after they objected to orders to…
GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
People on social media have reported strange events on delivery and navigation apps—drivers appear to be in the middle of the sea, or a 10-minute…
US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran
United States and Israeli forces have launched military strikes against Iran, with President Donald Trump calling the attacks a “major combat operation” against the Iranian…