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‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.
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Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames
An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream.
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Don't Praise the Sri Lankan Government for Blocking Facebook
Social media can provide vital information in a crisis, and there's evidence blocking it does more harm than good.
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A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful with who's generating your cryptocurrency keys.
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14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed
When you dig into the Mueller report, a lot of important details start to jump out.
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Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a 'Useful Idiot'
The Mueller report exposes the extent to which not just Russia but Donald Trump's own associates grifted the president.
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Hackers Can Tell What Netflix 'Bandersnatch' Choices You Make
Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices.
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Facebook Fails, Russian Hacks, and More Security News This Week
The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news.
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Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump
Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder.
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Read the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.
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The Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On
The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says.
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A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers and Dumping Their Code
Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
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The Mueller Report Is Out. Read It Here
Attorney general William Barr has released the redacted Mueller report to Congress. You can read all 300-plus pages of it right here.
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Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals
Investigators from the New York district attorney's office stumbled across dark web drug vendor "sinmed" thanks to suspicious ATM transactions.
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Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.
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Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support
Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft's customer support platform.
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Julian Assange, a Big Yahoo Fine, and More Security News This Week
Plus: Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, Silk Road 2's founder, and more of the week's top security news.
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Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts
A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t.
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Julian Assange Arrested, Mastering *Jeopardy!*, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.
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How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible
With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship.
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