Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
GPS jamming and spoofing attacks are on the rise. If the global navigation system the US relies on were to go down entirely, it would send the world into unprecedented chaos.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
A quantum computer will likely one day be able to break the encryption protecting the world’s secrets. See how much faster such a machine could decrypt a password compared to a present-day supercomputer.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:21:20 +0000
For years, a powerful farm industry group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:42:45 +0000
Plus: An Iranian man pleads guilty to a Baltimore ransomware attack, Russia’s nuclear blueprints get leaked, a Texas sheriff uses license plate readers to track a woman who got an abortion, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 13:22:09 +0000
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 13:22:09 +0000
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 18:14:03 +0000
A member of a California-based fight club seems to have attended an event hosted by groups with ties to an organization the US government labeled a terrorist group. Will the Trump administration care?
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options to get you started.
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