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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Plus: The FCC cracks down on car warranty robocalls, Thai activists get targeted by NSO’s Pegasus, and the Russia-Ukraine cyberwar continues.

The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000

As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:52:03 +0000

While cybersecurity and foreign meddling remain priorities, domestic threats against election workers have risen to the top of the list.

Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

A bill with bipartisan support might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law.

Credit to Author: Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The ACLU released a trove of documents showing how Homeland Security contracted with surveillance companies to scour location information.

Credit to Author: Kristen Poli| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Under increased scrutiny, certain period-tracking apps are seeing a surge of new users. Which are as safe as they claim to be?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:40:13 +0000

Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform.

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week’s top security news.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Researchers have found a way to use the web’s basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.

Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The exploit can leak password information and other sensitive material, but the chipmakers are rolling out mitigations.