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Thousands of e-commerce websites are bleeding customer payment data right now, and most of them don't even know it.A newly identified digital skimming campaign, dubbed...

Inside the EU’s Encryption War: How ‘Chat Control’ Became Europe’s Most Dangerous Surveillance Proposal

Somewhere in the corridors of the European Council, a proposal keeps coming back from the dead. It has been rejected, revised, rebranded, and resubmitted so many times that e...

The Man Who Built Greece’s Spy Machine Now Says the Government Pulled the Trigger

For years, the Greek government denied any involvement in the surveillance of journalists, politicians, and business leaders using Predator, one of the most invasive commerci...

The Surveillance Machine That Won’t Stop Growing: Inside the Latest Section 702 Abuse Scandal

Senator Ron Wyden has seen this movie before. And he's tired of it.In early March 2026, the Oregon Democrat — long one of the most persistent congressional critics of...

When the Bug Bounty Giant Gets Bitten: HackerOne Employees Exposed in Third-Party Benefits Breach

HackerOne, the company that pays hackers to find vulnerabilities in other organizations' systems, just had its own employees' personal data compromised. Not through a flaw in...

Crunchyroll Under Siege: Inside the Alleged Cyberattack That Has Anime Fans on Edge

On a quiet Sunday in late June 2025, anime fans around the world began noticing something strange. Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned streaming giant that serves as the dominant pla...

America Unleashes Corporate Cyber Militias: The Radical Policy Letting Private Companies Strike Back at Hackers

For decades, the rules of cyberwar have been simple: if someone hacks you, call the FBI. Don't touch anything. Don't retaliate. Let the government handle it.That era i...

Crunchyroll’s 6.8 Million User Data Breach Claim Puts Anime’s Biggest Streaming Platform Under the Microscope

A hacker claims to have stolen the personal data of 6.8 million Crunchyroll users. The anime streaming giant, owned by Sony, says it's investigating. And the timing couldn't...

Your iPhone Has a Security Hole That Hackers Already Found — And Apple Needs You to Act Now

Apple released emergency security updates this week for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs, patching a vulnerability that the company says may have already been exploited in...

From Moscow’s Keyboards to an American Prison Cell: The 675-Month Sentence That Sends a Message to Global Cybercriminals

A federal judge in Georgia has handed down one of the longest sentences ever imposed for cybercrime in the United States — 675 months, or just over 56 years — to a Russian na...

Citrix’s Critical NetScaler Flaw Puts Enterprise Networks on a Ticking Clock

Citrix has issued an urgent advisory pushing customers to patch a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler Console — the centralized management platform used by thousands of e...

Britain’s Financial Regulators Just Gave Palantir the Keys to Sensitive Data — and Privacy Advocates Are Alarmed

The United Kingdom's financial regulators have quietly handed over vast quantities of sensitive financial data to Palantir Technologies, the American data analytics firm co-f...

The Wiper in the Code: How a Sabotaged npm Package Targeted Iran and Exposed Open Source’s Achilles’ Heel

Somewhere in the sprawling registry of open-source JavaScript packages, a piece of code sat waiting. It looked like a useful library. It had a plausible name, a reasonable de...

The Invisible VPN: How a Small Open-Source Project Is Outmaneuvering State Censorship Machines

Somewhere in Russia, a software developer opens a laptop and connects to the internet through a protocol designed to look like nothing at all. Not like a VPN. Not like encryp...

The Router Lockout: Inside the FCC’s Unprecedented Ban on Foreign-Made Consumer Networking Equipment

The Federal Communications Commission just slammed the door on one of the most ubiquitous consumer electronics categories in America. Starting September 1, 2026, no new consu...

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