WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Won’t Go to Jail for Old Hacking Crimes
Well, Mueller Time has come and gone. We watched the former special counsel testify before not one but two congressional committees, and […]
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How to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money
If you’re one of the 147 million people in the United States affected by the egregious Equifax credit bureau hack in 2017, […]
Facebook’s Ex-Security Chief Details His ‘Observatory’ for Internet Abuse
When Alex Stamos describes the challenge of studying the worst problems of mass-scale bad behavior on the internet, he compares it to […]
$700 Million Equifax Fine Is Still Too Little, Too Late
Two years after its historic data breach, the credit bureau Equifax agreed Monday to pay at least $575 million, and up to […]
Adware Is the Malware You Should Actually Be Worried About
When you think of malware, it’s understandable if your mind first goes to elite hackers launching sophisticated dragnets. But unless you’re being […]
Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People
Europeans had to navigate by the stars this week—well, GPS, but still—after the continent’s burgeoning Galileo satellite navigation network went dark for […]
Europe’s Galileo Satellite Outage Serves as a Warning
Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system largely regained service Thursday, a full week after a mass outage began on July 11. The European […]
China Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond
In the spirit of fireworks and firework-related ER visits, it was an explosive and chaotic week in cybersecurity. The ransomware scourge continues […]
The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages
In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped […]
Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange
The week began with a tricky Google Calendar phishing scam, and ended with Iran ramping up its cyberattacks against the US, as […]