The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
“What am I supposed to see?” Krutzler asks, staring at his screen and bouncing his knee like he has a...
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This Tool Lets Hackers Dox Almost Anyone in the US
“The government needs to stop these companies from packaging and selling our personal information,” US senator Ron Wyden of Oregon...
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Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Matters in a World of Fakes
For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot. And they’re available...
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Trump’s Prosecution Is America’s Last Hope
Donald Trump was arrested in Georgia tonight for his role in what prosecutors christened “a wide-ranging criminal enterprise” aimed at...
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The Last Hour Before Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Plane Crash
At around 5:30 pm Moscow time on August 23, the Embraer Legacy 600 private business jet took to the skies....
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Why The Chainsmokers Invest in—and Party With—Niche Cybersecurity Companies
On Saturday, with Hurricane Hilary looming, Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the DJ duo The Chainsmokers performed a concert...
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Social Media and Mental Health
If you give a kid a smartphone, they’re going to want a social media account. That’s not the start of...
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The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open
In today’s digital world, injustice lurks in the shadows of the Facebook post that’s delivered to certain groups of people...
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New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
Every software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate application to push out their malware to hundreds or...
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The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy
Low Risk: Users can edit or delete data, Some Risk: Users can edit data, High Risk: Users cannot edit or...
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Google’s New Feature Ensures Your Pixel Phone Hasn’t Been Hacked. Here’s How It Works | WIRED
If you think about all the businesses involved in maintaining the software on your phone, from individual app developers to...
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Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last weekend, thousands of hackers competed in a red-team challenge to find...
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