Pentagon and NATO war plans are said to have leaked online yesterday. More followed today. But are they legit or is…
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Thirty years ago, the U.S. government first floated the idea of a backdoor into public-key encryption, an idea it's…
Think your fancy new ride's in-vehicle surveillance videos are private? Think again.
The feds took down a hotbed of digital malfeasance this week. Where will dark web goons hawk stolen identities now?
A host of software flaws in products sold by the smart home company Nexx makes them ripe for manipulation by…
Less than a week after the White House blacklisted a controversial spyware vendor, a federal agency negotiated a…
Big tech and big law enforcement have partnered up to share your personal information, but which countries have the…
After years of debate about the cause of the strange malady, a recently declassified document points the finger…
A hacking campaign that targeted U.S. activists was coordinated by an Israeli private eye. Who were his clients?
As the world wonders who took out a major Russia-led energy project late last year, the UN this week signaled they…
As the commercial spyware industry has grown larger and more invasive, the Biden administration is using new…
A data broker that previously sold data-pilfering tools to the U.S. military has received tens of thousands of…
A new AI chatbot from Google is in town, and despite attempts at a more measured rollout, it's just as unhinged as…
Lonely? Bored? Need to know something? Have no fear. Every company and their mother suddenly has an "AI chatbot" to…
In Ecuador, someone is trying to silence the news media by turning USB sticks into deadly weapons.
If, for some reason, you've been using Microsoft's Snipping Tool to crop your most precious digital secrets, bad…
As the AI war in Silicon Valley heats up, the world's biggest search engine is starting a beta test of its own large…
A Meta executive spent a year under surveillance by the Greek government, in what appears to be the first targeting…
You’d think that an Italian tech executive would’ve thought twice before quoting his nation's most infamous…
Two men are accused of having carried out cyberstalking and harassment campaigns targeted at people throughout the…