Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Cybercriminals stole a record-breaking fortune from US residents and businesses in 2024, and Google performs its final flip-flop in its yearslong quest to kill tracking cookies.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0000
Plus: A US judge rules against police cell phone “tower dumps,” China names alleged NSA agents it says were involved in cyberattacks, and Customs and Border Protection reveals its social media spying tools.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:13:45 +0000
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:10:04 +0000
The CVE Program is the primary way software vulnerabilities are tracked. Its long-term future remains in limbo even after a last-minute renewal of the US government contract that funds it.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:27:40 +0000
A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Despite their hacktivist front, CyberAv3ngers is a rare state-sponsored hacker group bent on putting industrial infrastructure at risk—and has already caused global disruption.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Though less well-known than groups like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, Brass Typhoon, or APT 41, is an infamous, longtime espionage actor that foreshadowed recent telecom hacks.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants’ social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.
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