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Apple Chip Flaw Leaks Secret Encryption Keys
Plus: The Biden administration warns of nationwide attacks on US water systems, a new Russian wiper...
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The DOJ Puts Apple's iMessage Encryption in the Antitrust Crosshairs
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ’s new antitrust lawsuit argues that...
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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies
Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how...
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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring...
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Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator...
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Sinking US Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat
For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction...
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Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification...
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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible...
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Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras...
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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the...
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Security News This Week: Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US...
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Inside the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy
Registered Agents Inc. has for years allowed businesses to register under a cloak of anonymity. A...
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The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
The UK’s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle...
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Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US Data—Good Luck
The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of...
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Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned...
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The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
Ankle tags that constantly log a person’s coordinates are part of a growing cadre of experimental...
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A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without...
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A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
Plus: Scammers try to dupe Apple with 5,000 fake iPhones, Avast gets fined for selling browsing...
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Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the...
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Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning
The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then...
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Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption
Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption...
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Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger’s new feature aimed at addressing critics’ most persistent complaint. Here’s...
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How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000
Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet,...
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Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of...