Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.

The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About

Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Plus: A leaked US “no fly” list, the SCOTUS leaker slips investigators, and PayPal gets stuffed.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:13:24 +0000

The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:30:01 +0000

Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more.

Credit to Author: Varsha Bansal| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a novel way to help people avoid getting swindled online: grassroots education.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:41:26 +0000

More than 120 models of Siemens’ S7-1500 PLCs contain a serious vulnerability—and no fix is on the way.