The Real Story of “The Order”
Terrorgram’s materials, which include viable bomb-making instructions, camouflage and tactical guides, and instructions on how to disable critical infrastructure like electrical substations, water treatment plants…
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She Escaped An Abusive Marriage—Now She Helps Women Battle Cyber Harassment
Nighat Dad grew up in a conservative family in Jhang, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The threat of early marriage hung over her childhood like a…
Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to conduct audits of their systems related to…
She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
OFAC announced sanctions against the founder, as well as Elena Chirkinyan and Andrej Bradens, who also goes by the surname Carenoks, both of whom work…
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has still been that…
With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules leading the way to a…
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s sensitive location data. The data…
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had…
Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group of consumer-focused nonprofits urged Chopra…
Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether it’s a regional municipality, a utility like…
The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
Digital advertising is a whopping $700 billion (£530 billion) industry that remains largely unregulated, with few laws in place to protect brands and consumers. Companies…
The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $6.9 million…