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• App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging

  Sam Altman’s 'proof of human' World ID venture says it’s nearing 18 million verified users.

  5 months, 2 weeks By Rob Pegoraro
• Trump Cyber Team Wants to 'Shape Adversary Behavior.' Allies Are Skeptical

  Bad actors need to know their actions have consequences, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says at a conference that also highlighted unease over the admin's actions to date.

  6 months By Rob Pegoraro
• Washington Post Falls Victim to Oracle-Linked Data Breach

  Google researchers says 'mass amounts of customer data' were stolen in the operation. Harvard University and American Airlines-owned carrier Envoy were also impacted.

  6 months, 2 weeks By Will Mccurdy
• Using Grok? Better Check Any Links You Click

  Cybercriminals run video ads on X containing adult content to grab scrollers’ attention, then trick Grok into amplifying malicious links in the response below.

  8 months, 3 weeks By Will Mccurdy
• This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product

  Dashlane documents this in-house exercise to make more people (as in, potential corporate customers) aware of it. 'In practice, they’re not all doing it the right way,' its CTO tells us.

  9 months, 4 weeks By Rob Pegoraro
• Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once

  Most payments are less than $1 million, but 8% of successfully attacked US companies have paid a ransom four or more times, according to security firm Semperis.

  9 months, 4 weeks By Rob Pegoraro
• Microsoft: China-Based Engineers Will No Longer Handle Defense Department Work

  Chinese workers are accompanied by US citizens functioning as 'digital escorts,' but the practice functions 'with little review,' according to a ProPublica investigation.

  10 months, 1 week By Will Mccurdy
• Your Company's Annoying Anti-Phishing Training? Probably a Huge Waste of Time and Money

  After taking preventative courses, some employees are actually more likely to click on scam links arriving in their inbox, researchers at Purdue University find.

  10 months, 3 weeks By Chris Stokel-Walker
• Cloudflare: Record 7.3Tbps DDoS Attack Hits Mystery Target

  Cloudflare says the attack is a 'multivector DDoS attack' in which 99.996% of the malicious attack traffic was executed via what is known as 'UDP floods.'

  11 months, 1 week By Will Mccurdy
• Trying to Reach Netflix or Microsoft Support? Watch Out for Fake Numbers

  These fake Google search results serve up real websites—but with a dangerous twist.

  11 months, 1 week By Will Mccurdy
• California Man Pleads Guilty to 2024 Disney Slack Hack

  The man used malware hidden in an AI art generator to gain access to a Disney employee's device before claiming to be part of a fake Russian hacking syndicate and demanding payment.

  1 year By Will Mccurdy
• Google Fixes 23-Year-Old Chrome Flaw That Could Leak Your Browser History

  The security flaw, which is older than many Google employees, potentially allowed websites to discover what links you've clicked on in the past.

  1 year, 1 month By Will Mccurdy
• As US Cracks Down, North Koreans Target Europe With Remote Work Scams

  Google’s security researchers spot suspected North Koreans looking for employment in Germany and Portugal while using login credentials for European job hiring sites.

  1 year, 1 month By Michael Kan
• Trump Officials Accidentally Add Atlantic Editor to Signal Chat About War Plans

  Pro tip: When adding somebody to the group chat about classified information that itself violates government rules, double-check that Jeffrey Goldberg isn't on the thread.

  1 year, 2 months By Rob Pegoraro
• Bot or Not? To Prove You're Human, Look Into This 8-Inch Orb

  The Sam Altman-backed startup Tools for Humanity pitches a blockchain-based solution to the bot problem. Chief architect Adrian Ludwig explains how his company's 'World ID' works.

  1 year, 2 months By Rob Pegoraro