The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the last two years, developed by the tech industry association known as the FIDO Alliance as…
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Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a…
The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the Wayback Machine, hackers this week…
A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
The newly discovered toolkit is composed of many different building blocks, written in multiple languages and capabilities. The overall goal appears to be increased flexibility…
Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
An illicit JavaScript popup on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the organization…
69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with an IRS agent named Tigran…
What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services in addition to Chrome and…
Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
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The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond its roots in Southeast Asia,…
How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice
In a future conflict, American troops will direct the newest war machines not with sprawling control panels or sci-fi-inspired touchscreens, but controls familiar to anyone…
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially to influence those around…
ICE Signs $2 Million Contract With Spyware Maker Paragon Solutions
Paragon was founded in 2019 by veterans from the Israel Defense Forces’ powerful intelligence Unit 8200 with the active involvement of former Israeli prime minister…