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Surfshark just raised the stakes in the consumer cybersecurity market. The Lithuania-headquartered VPN provider announced that its top-tier subscription plan, Surfshark One+,...

Proton VPN Is Betting That Privacy Can Be a Business Model — And It Might Be Right

In a market saturated with VPN providers making extravagant claims about speed and security, one Swiss company has staked its reputation on something different: transparency...

Big Tech Signs a Global Anti-Scam Pact. Will It Actually Stop the Flood of Fraud?

Google, Meta, Amazon, and several other major technology companies have signed onto a new international framework aimed at disrupting the industrial-scale scam operations tha...

A Ghost From the 1990s: How a Decades-Old Telnet Daemon Is Now a Gateway Into Modern Linux Systems

A vulnerability buried in code that predates most of today's working software engineers has resurfaced with devastating implications. CVE-2026-32746, a critical buffer overfl...

ShinyHunters Is Back — And the Snowflake Breach Was Just the Beginning

The hacking collective known as ShinyHunters, already infamous for orchestrating one of the largest cloud data breaches in history through Snowflake's customer environments l...

Brazil’s New Age-Verification Law Sends VPN Demand Surging — and Raises Hard Questions About Internet Freedom

On a Saturday in late May, Brazil flipped a switch. A sweeping new law requiring social media platforms to verify the ages of their users took effect, and within hours, the country...

The AWS Veterans Who Raised $42 Million to Rethink Cloud Security Before Writing a Line of Marketing Copy

A cybersecurity company called Native emerged from stealth this week with $42 million in funding and a thesis that the cloud security market — already crowded with vendors an...

Stryker Hackers Allegedly Wiped Tens of Thousands of Devices Without Deploying a Single Line of Malware

No ransomware. No trojans. No custom exploits. A hacking group calling itself Stryker claims to have wiped between 40,000 and 80,000 devices across a range of targets — and t...

NordVPN Partners With Internews to Shield Journalists and Activists From Surveillance

NordVPN just made its most politically charged move yet. The consumer VPN giant has partnered with Internews, a nonprofit that supports independent media in some of the world...

Senator Wyden’s Alarm Bell on NSA Surveillance Is Ringing Again — And Congress May Not Be Listening

When Senator Ron Wyden issues a cryptic warning about government surveillance, history suggests you should pay attention. The Oregon Democrat has spent more than a decade as...

Europe’s Encryption Wars: The EU Parliament Blocked Chat Surveillance, But the Fight Is Far From Over

The European Parliament just drew a line in the sand on digital privacy. It said no to mass scanning of private messages. No to breaking encryption. No to what critics called...

The Invisible Saboteur: How Unicode Tricks Are Poisoning Open-Source Code From the Inside Out

Somewhere in the guts of a GitHub repository, a line of code looks perfectly normal. A developer reviews it, approves the pull request, and merges it into a project used by t...

Your Asus Router May Already Be Compromised: Inside the Cyclops Blink Threat That Won’t Go Away

Somewhere in your home or small office, a router hums along quietly, directing traffic, connecting devices, doing its job. If that router is made by Asus, there's a non-trivi...

FBI Investigates Malware in Steam Games for Crypto Mining and Theft

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has turned its attention to a growing threat within the gaming community, specifically targeting malicious software hidden inside games avail...

The FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Powers Face Their Most Serious Congressional Threat in Years

For nearly two decades, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has given U.S. intelligence agencies sweeping authority to vacuum up the electronic communica...

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