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Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Trust Issues

Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Lily Hay Newman

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

Dirty Jobs

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

Ali Winston and Jake Hanrahan

A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers

Zapped

A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers

Andy Greenberg

Can GPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

harm reduction

Can GPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

Kate O'Flaherty

A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security

election 2024

A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security

Eric Geller

Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics

Cable Cutter

Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics

Matt Burgess

How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords

Grab and Run

How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Stop X’s Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets

security roundup

Stop X’s Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets

Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them

oops

A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech

Future Investment

Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech

Luca Zorloni

At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You

Olympics 2024

At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You

Morgan Meaker

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

Lurkers

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

Matt Burgess

This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations

Cookie Monster

This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations

Brian Merchant

How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

Stone Cold

How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

Andy Greenberg

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

target practice

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

Matthew Gault

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

Security Roundup

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

Taking Advantage

Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

Lily Hay Newman

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

Oops

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, and Andy Greenberg

Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

Strike Out

Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

Matt Burgess

JD Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

Paper Trail

JD Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, and Andrew Couts