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Here's the Malware You Should Actually Worry About

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Here's the Malware You Should Actually Worry About

By Lily Hay Newman

Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions

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Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions

By Emily Dreyfuss

Europe's Weeklong Satellite Outage Is Over—But Still Serves as a Warning

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Europe's Weeklong Satellite Outage Is Over—But Still Serves as a Warning

By Lily Hay Newman

AI is helping UK police tackle child abuse way quicker than before

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AI is helping UK police tackle child abuse way quicker than before

By Matt Burgess

China Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond

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China Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond

By Lily Hay Newman

The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages

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The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages

By Lily Hay Newman

Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange

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Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange

By Emily Dreyfuss

Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private

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Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private

By Lily Hay Newman

How Not To Prevent a Cyberwar With Russia

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How Not To Prevent a Cyberwar With Russia

By Andy Greenberg

A Plan to Stop Breaches With Dead Simple Database Encryption

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A Plan to Stop Breaches With Dead Simple Database Encryption

By Lily Hay Newman

Telegram CEO Says China Is Behind DDoS Attack

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Telegram CEO Says China Is Behind DDoS Attack

By Emily Dreyfuss

Google's Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole

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Google's Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole

By Lily Hay Newman

Google Says It Won't Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree

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Google Says It Won't Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree

By Lily Hay Newman

Jigsaw Bought a Russian Troll Campaign as an Experiment

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Jigsaw Bought a Russian Troll Campaign as an Experiment

By Andy Greenberg

Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online

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Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online

By Lily Hay Newman

Crypto Company Hacks Itself Before Hackers Can Hack It

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Crypto Company Hacks Itself Before Hackers Can Hack It

By Brian Barrett

The Catch-22 That Broke the Internet

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The Catch-22 That Broke the Internet

By Brian Barrett

Push to Protect Political Campaigns from Hackers Hits a Snag

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Push to Protect Political Campaigns from Hackers Hits a Snag

By Lily Hay Newman

The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature

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The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature

By Andy Greenberg

'Sign In With Apple' Protects You in Ways Facebook Won't

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'Sign In With Apple' Protects You in Ways Facebook Won't

By Lily Hay Newman