A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
For more than a decade now, Russian cyberwarfare has used Ukraine as a test lab for its latest hacking techniques,...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed...
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The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s...
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has...
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The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
UTA’s Wang notes that while she hasn’t assessed whether scammers are using generative AI to produce romance scam scripts, she...
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China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications...
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A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks
Over the last decade, the Kremlin’s most aggressive cyberwar unit, known as Sandworm, has focused its hacking campaigns on tormenting...
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This Ad-Tech Company Is Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel
Last year, a media investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that...
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US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Over the years, the programs have been effective. For instance, a four-year partnership between the US and the Philippines, which...
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The Rise of the Drone Boats
A Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System launches munitions from a MARTAC T-38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vehicle, attached to U.S....
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UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
As Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency rampage through United States federal institutions, WIRED reported extensively this...
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ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told federal lawmakers on Friday that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency...
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