Tag: Security / Security News

In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped […]

The week began with a tricky Google Calendar phishing scam, and ended with Iran ramping up its cyberattacks against the US, as […]

Certain studies require sensitive data sets: the relationship between nutritious school lunch and student health, the effectiveness of salary equity initiatives, and […]

In the short span of years in which the threat of cyberwar has loomed, no one has quite figured out how to […]

Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it’s difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back […]

It’s mid June, and according to tradition, the news cycle is supposed to be lethargic, cooling off in a hammock somewhere and […]

The internet-wide push to encrypt more web traffic has resulted in a wave of safer, snoop-proof connections. The next challenge, though, is […]

Over the past 18 months, Google has pushed to improve Chrome extension security—a welcome goal given the sketchy morass of extensions that […]

For more than two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia’s Internet Research Agency, an […]

In May 2018, the Middle East-focused free speech and information access group Majal suffered a major cyberattack. Someone had managed to infiltrate […]