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The freelance job board Fiverr housed a number of people offering illegal or otherwise unsettling surveillance and spy services.

People Used Fiverr to Spy on Their Spouses

By Dan Robitzski

Security researchers found eight different vulnerabilities in Nest Camera cybersecurity. Google promised a fix, but other cameras have the same problems.

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There Are at Least Eight Ways to Hack a Nest Camera

By Dan Robitzski

A "digital fingerprint" black market called Richlogs is selling packages of victims' entire online activity, granting access to any private accounts.

This Online Black Market Will Sell Your Entire Digital Identity

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the NSA, the secretive intelligence agency, uses the same version of the messaging app Slack as your office.

The NSA Won’t Say Anything About Its Slack Account

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to make his car "invisible" using the license plate "NULL" actually put a security researcher on the hook for $18,000 of other people's tickets.

Science & Energy

This Guy Got the License Plate “NULL” and It Was a Total Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity company called Crown Sterling gave a bizarre, buzzword-filled talk at the cybersecurity conference Black Hat and got roasted to oblivion.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Roasting a Terrible Sponsored Talk at Black Hat

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity expert found that smart speakers and laptops could be controlled by hackers to blast out inaudible, deafening frequencies of sound.

Robots and Machines

Hackers Can Hijack Your Speakers to Play Deafening Noises

By Dan Robitzski

Financial aggregation services are giving hackers everything they need to access and empty wealthy targets' bank accounts.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Cracking Online Banking Sites to Steal Your Cash

By Dan Robitzski

A Bulgarian hacker took control of the country's tax agency and also hijacked the sprinkler system outside of Parliament.

Hackers Seize Control of Bulgarian Tax Agency, Sprinkler System

By Dan Robitzski

A team of hackers stole 7.5 terabytes of information from a company working for Russian intelligence, revealing a number of troubling projects.

Science & Energy

A Russian Intelligence Contractor Just Got Hacked

By Dan Robitzski

Neither the government nor private tech companies have taken steps to protect the 2020 presidential election from being manipulated.

Congressman: The 2020 Election Is Not Safe From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

225 mayors from across the United States signed a resolution to stop paying ransomware hackers who target their cities' digital infrastructure.

225 US Mayors Agree to Stop Paying Ransomware Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.

Science & Energy

Someone Hacked Global Telecom Companies. Experts Blame China.

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers hijacked critical computer networks in Riviera Beach, Florida. Without another option, the city paid a $600,000 ransom in Bitcoin.

Science & Energy

Florida City Pays Hackers $600,000 to Restore Hijacked Network

By Dan Robitzski

Security experts detect trillions of attempted hacks every day, many of which target political systems and elections using cheap, readily-available tools.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Threatening Elections Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers from Xenotime, which previously took down a Saudi oil plant, are now attempting to breach American power plants with their malware Triton.

Hackers Have Spent Months Trying to Breach America’s Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Russian president Vladimir Putin officially signed a bill into law yesterday that would require the country's internet to disconnect from foreign servers.

Putin Signs Bill to Create Tightly-Controlled “Russian Internet”

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker recently took control of over 27,000 drivers' accounts in apps that can monitor — and remotely disable — their car.

Robots and Machines

A Hacker Says He Can Kill Your Car’s Engine While You’re Driving

By Dan Robitzski

A crypto thief that security experts are calling the "blockchain bandit" made off with millions of dollars' worth of Ethereum by guessing weak passwords.

Science & Energy

Crypto Thief Stole $54 Million by Guessing Weak Passwords

By Dan Robitzski

A recent report shows that amateur Russian hackers infiltrated the finance offices of several U.S. embassies around the world.

Science & Energy

Rogue Russian Hackers Are Attacking US Embassies

By Dan Robitzski

Mike Burgess, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, revealed some aspects of the agency's cyberwar against ISIS and called for recruits.

Australia Reveals Cyberwar Against ISIS, Asks for Help

By Dan Robitzski

A new report shows that banks are being hit by more and more attempted cyberattacks, and they may not always be proactive about their security practices.

Science & Energy

Banks Are Under Siege by Sophisticated Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Fans of YouTube star PewDiePie have taken to ransomware attacks in order to try and drive up PewDiePie's subscriber count.

Science & Energy

New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers

By Dan Robitzski

In April, bank hackers stole the equivalent of $20 million from Mexico's central bank thanks to a network rife with security flaws.

Here’s How Hackers Stole $15 Million From Mexican Banks

By Kristin Houser

DARPA is developing technology that could finally lead to secure voting machines. It plans to have experts from professors to hackers kick the tires.

DARPA Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

By Dan Robitzski

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.

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This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

By Dan Robitzski

According to a damning new internal review, the U.S. Navy is getting hacked so much that it can't even tell how much intel has been stolen.

US Navy Struggling to Deal With an Onslaught of Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Citing national security, Russia just blocked access to servers necessary to run the encrypted email service ProtonMail and the anonymized web browser Tor.

Russia Blocks Access to ProtonMail

By Dan Robitzski

New malware is targeting safety systems at industrial plants around the world — the same systems, ominously, that protect nuclear power stations.

Science & Energy

Bizarre Malware Is Disabling Safety Systems at Industrial Plants

By Jon Christian

The Pentagon is currently testing a system that would let smartphones lock out users if it doesn't recognize their gait or grip.

Artificial Intelligence

New Pentagon Tech Unlocks Smartphone Based on Your Gait

By Dan Robitzski

Famed investor Warren Buffett warned in his annual letter of a "megacatastrophe," which he said will cause unprecedented havoc.

Warren Buffett Warns of Upcoming “Megacatastrophe”

By Jon Christian

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.

Advanced Transport

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

By Dan Robitzski

Some time in the next month, Russia will briefly disconnect the nation's internet to make sure local networks could withstand a hostile takeover.

Russia Plans to Cut Itself Off From the Global Internet

By Dan Robitzski

Oregon Senator Ron Ryden introduced a new cybersecurity bill that would let the FTC impose and enforce strict cybersecurity standards for tech companies.

New Bill Would Let FTC Jail Execs For Data Breaches

By Dan Robitzski

A new Reuters investigation reveals that the UAE used a sophisticated hacking tool to easily access iPhone messages, pictures, and passwords.

Secret UAE Spy Team Used “Cyber Super-Weapon” to Hack Any iPhone

By Dan Robitzski

To beef up cybersecurity before the upcoming 2020 Toyko Olympics, the Japanese Government is about to systematically hack the country's IoT devices.

Japan Plans to Hack 200 Million Devices to Prepare for Olympics

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists finally build quantum computers, they'll make quick work of current cybersecurity. But using biological systems for security may stump them.

New Encryption Is Based on the Random Movement of Living Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.

Hackers Accessed NASA Servers Containing Employee Information

By Kristin Houser

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

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CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, cybersecurity is the area of technology healthcare executives believe will have the biggest industry impact in 2019.

Cybersecurity Is a Top Concern for Healthcare Executives

By Kristin Houser

Russian hacker groups are using old tricks with a new twist to retrieve sensitive government data. But security firms are on to them.

Russian Hackers Have New Techniques to Steal Data

By Victor Tangermann

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

By Dan Robitzski

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is tasked with defending U.S. infrastructure from both cyber and physical attacks.

The US Finally Has a Defense Agency Devoted to Cybersecurity

By Kristin Houser

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

Artificial Intelligence

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

By Victor Tangermann

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons

Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts

By Jon Christian

Cryptomining Malware Is Infecting Corporate Networks Worldwide

Cryptomining Malware Is Infecting Corporate Networks Worldwide

By Victor Tangermann

Welcome to the Age of 5G. No One Can Agree On Whether That’s A Good Thing.

Welcome to the Age of 5G. No One Can Agree On Whether That’s A Good Thing.

By Victor Tangermann

Recent Cryptocurrency Hacks Are Shaking Investors’ Faith

Recent Cryptocurrency Hacks Are Shaking Investors’ Faith

By Dan Robitzski

Two States Are Trying To Give People Control Over Their Online Data

Two States Are Trying To Give People Control Over Their Online Data

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers Are Holding The City of Atlanta Hostage

Hackers Are Holding The City of Atlanta Hostage

By Claudia Geib

Making AI More Secret Could Prevent Us From Making It Better

Artificial Intelligence

Making AI More Secret Could Prevent Us From Making It Better

By Claudia Geib

Canada to Devote $1 Billion of Federal Budget to Fighting Cybercrime

Canada to Devote $1 Billion of Federal Budget to Fighting Cybercrime

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Cyber Warfare Is Growing. We Need Rules to Protect Ourselves.

As Drones Become Tools of War, Companies Turn to Hacking Them

As Drones Become Tools of War, Companies Turn to Hacking Them

An Algorithm Knows When Your Kid Is Using Your Phone

Artificial Intelligence

An Algorithm Knows When Your Kid Is Using Your Phone

By Patrick Caughill

Extremely Durable Computer Chips Bring Cybersecurity to Harsh Environments

The Future of Cybersecurity Is in High-Speed Quantum Encryption

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The Future of Cybersecurity Is in High-Speed Quantum Encryption

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Uber Reveals Long-Kept Hacking That Jeopardized Data From 57 Million People

The Department of Defense’s Bug Bounty Program Has Flagged Thousands of Vulnerabilities

The Department of Defense’s Bug Bounty Program Has Flagged Thousands of Vulnerabilities

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Microsoft’s President Says Cyber Warfare Prevention Falls Largely on Tech Companies

Machine Learning Is Making it Difficult to Tell Humans and Computers Apart

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Machine Learning Is Making it Difficult to Tell Humans and Computers Apart

The Age of the Hacker: Equifax Took Down Website Amidst New Cybersecurity Fears

The Age of the Hacker: Equifax Took Down Website Amidst New Cybersecurity Fears

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Malware That Hijacks Your Computer to Mine Cryptocurrency Is Swarming Across the Internet