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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...

Ghost Campaign Supply Chain Attack Exposes a Costly Blind Spot in Software Security Budgets

Seven npm packages. That's all it took to install backdoors on developer machines and steal sensitive credentials across an unknown number of organizations. The campaign, dub...

FCC’s Ban on Chinese-Made Routers Reshapes the Networking Hardware Market — and Creates Clear Winners

The Federal Communications Commission just drew a hard line. On March 23, the agency announced a ban on imports of new Chinese-manufactured routers into the United States, ci...

GrapheneOS Has a Plan to Kill Age Verification Laws — By Making Them Unnecessary

A privacy-focused mobile operating system, built by a small team with no corporate parent, is quietly proposing what might be the most elegant solution yet to one of the inte...

Tax Season’s Nastiest Phishing Scam: How 29,000 Inboxes Got Hit With IRS-Themed Malware in a Single Day

On a single day in February, roughly 29,000 email inboxes across the United States were carpet-bombed with phishing messages disguised as IRS correspondence. The campaign did...

Operation Endgame’s Second Act: How Europol Took Down 300 Dark Web Servers and Dismantled a Criminal Supply Chain

On a Wednesday morning in late May, law enforcement agencies across seven countries executed what amounts to the largest coordinated strike against dark web criminal infrastr...

Signals Through Stone: How Scientists Cracked the Code for Underground Wireless Communication

For as long as wireless communication has existed, the ground beneath our feet has been its natural enemy. Radio waves, the workhorses of everything from Wi-Fi to cellular ne...

A Cyberattack Bricked Thousands of Breathalyzers. Drivers Couldn’t Start Their Cars.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article mistakenly said Dräger was the company that suffered the breach. We apologize for the error. O...

63 Million Reasons to Worry: Inside the Verizon Data Exposure That Nobody’s Talking About

A third-party data broker's security lapse may have left the personal information of more than 63 million Verizon customers sitting exposed on the open internet. The breach w...

When a Cyberattack Hits a National Champion: The £1.5 Billion Bailout That Exposed Britain’s Missing Playbook

In January 2024, a cyberattack struck Jaguar Land Rover's supply chain, crippling operations at one of Britain's most iconic manufacturers. Within weeks, the UK government st...

CanisterWorm: The Shadowy Wiper Attack on Iran That Signals a New Chapter in Cyber Warfare

A destructive cyberweapon dubbed CanisterWorm has torn through Iranian industrial and government networks in what security researchers are calling one of the most sophisticat...

GrapheneOS Exposes the Forgotten Flaw in Age Verification Laws: The Operating System Already Has the Tools

Every few months, another state legislature drafts a bill demanding that apps and websites verify the age of their users. The proposals arrive with earnest language about pro...

The Age Gate Trap: How State Verification Laws Are Building a Surveillance Machine That Won’t Actually Protect Kids

A wave of state-level age verification mandates is sweeping across the United States, and the political pitch is almost always the same: protect children from harmful online...

The Android Setting Almost Nobody Touches Could Be Your Best Defense Against Ad Trackers and DNS Snooping

Somewhere buried in your Android phone's network settings is a toggle that most people have never touched. It's called Private DNS. And it might be the single most impactful...

The Great Age Gate Deception: How Child Protection Laws Became a Trojan Horse for Mass Surveillance and a Death Sentence for Open-Source Software

Somewhere between the genuine desire to protect children online and the legislative text now moving through statehouses across America, something went badly wrong. A wave of...

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