Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
A year ago, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope in the cybersecurity industry’s long-running war of attrition against...
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2054, Part III: The Singularity
Lily didn’t want to approach B.T. She thought that might seem too aggressive; instead, she wanted him to notice her....
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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
Meanwhile, Julia Weis, a spokesperson for the Swiss messaging app Threema, says that while WhatsApp did approach it to discuss...
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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing
A bloody Sunday followed. In Tucson, a Border Patrol officer fired a rubber bullet that struck a Truther protester in...
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2054, Part I: Death of a President
“But do you understand what you did wrong?” She struggled to look him directly in the eye. Her gaze instead...
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China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies
An indictment from the US Department of Justice may have solved the mystery of how disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX lost...
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The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
When more than $400 million worth of crypto was mysteriously pulled out of the coffers of what was once the...
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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash
Even so, a little more than two weeks after publishing its investigation into Appin Technology, on December 5, Reuters complied...
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YouTube, Discord, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
A California teenager prosecutors say is responsible for hundreds of swatting attacks around the United States was exposed after law...
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Apple and Google Just Patched Their First Zero-Day Flaws of the Year
Later in January, Google released Chrome 121 to the stable channel, fixing 17 security issues, three of which are rated...
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Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia’s War in Ukraine
Near the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, a boxy robot zips along the rocky, cracked road. Snaking from side to side,...
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US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools
The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police...
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