Tech Giants Are Becoming Defenders of Democracy. Now What?
On Tuesday, a trifecta of tech companies announced that they had thwarted what appear to be significant cyberattacks from Russia…
“They’re Throwing Things at the Wall”: Faced with Manafort and Cohen Convictions, the Right Melts Down
Left, by Zach Gibson; right, by Mark Kauzlarich, both from Bloomberg/Getty Images. Just hours after Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former…
Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup
This post has been updated with a comment from Tesla. Employees at Tesla’s Nevada gigafactory were allegedly involved in a…
To Identify a Hacker, Treat Them Like a Burglar
Imagine someone robs your house. The savvy culprit didn’t leave behind fingerprints, shoe prints, or any other discrete, identifying details.…
Invisible Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Burrow Deep into MacOS
One way operating system developers try to protect a computers’s secrets from probing hackers is with an appeal to the…
Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked to Doctor Footage
As they proliferate, police body cameras have courted controversy because of the contentious nature of the footage they capture and…
Machine Learning Can Identify the Authors of Anonymous Code
Researchers who study stylometry—the statistical analysis of linguistic style—have long known that writing is a unique, individualistic process. The vocabulary…
Hacking a Brand New Mac Remotely, Right Out of the Box
Apple’s supply chain is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control…
Airport Surveillance, FBI Brain Drain, and More Security News This Week
You might not be shocked that this week began with big news about a coordinated misinformation campaign on Facebook. But…
Book review: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap ThingsRaj Patel and Jason W. MooreVerso 2018ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-213-0Review by John Fullerton Welcome…
Online Hate Is Rampant. Here’s How to Keep It From Spreading
Back in the last presidential campaign season, reporters on the tech and politics beats began noticing a rise in far-right…
The National Risk Management Center Will Combat Critical Infrastructure Hacks
As the threat of cyberattacks on the United States launched by foreign adversaries grows, the federal government has been slow…
Six Tools Used by Hackers to Steal Cryptocurrency: How to Protect Wallets
In the early July, it was reported that Bleeping Computer detected suspicious activity targeted at defrauding 2.3 million Bitcoin wallets,…
How A Group of Imprisoned Hackers Introduced JPay to the World
Until yesterday, unless you had a family member or friend inside prison, you most likely had never heard of JPay.…
With Trump in Thrall to Putin, the N.S.A. and Cyber Command Go Rogue
By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. As Cabinet members, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, looked on on Wednesday, Donald Trump…
Putin’s “Incredible Offer” to Trump Is Even Worse Than We Feared
By Brendan Smialowski /AF/Getty Images. With the media focused on Donald Trump’s self-abasing performance in Helsinki, a key detail of…
The 10 Most Difficult-to-Defend Online Fandoms, from Barbz to Pewdiepie’s Bro Army
Oh, fandom. So passionate, so partisan—and, too often these days, so prolifically peevish. From Tumblr and Wattpad to more mainstream…
Trump’s Russia Denials Have Real Consequences
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared to downplay Russia’s efforts to interfere with US democracy for a third time this…