You Can All Finally Encrypt Facebook Messenger, So Do It
Update your Facebook Messenger app now to add its “Secret Conversations” end-to-end encryption feature. The post You Can All Finally…
How to Steal an AI
Researchers show how they can reverse engineer and even fully reconstruct someone else’s machine learning engine—using machine learning. The post…
Tesla Responds to Chinese Hack With a Major Security Upgrade
When researchers at the Chinese firm Tencent hacked a Tesla S, the carmaker pushed out a new security feature known…
Hack Brief: Yahoo Looks Set to Confirm a Big, Old Data Breach
The company is reportedly about to admit that a four-year-old collection 200 million user accounts up for sale on the…
How Police Trace Cellphones in IEDs Like the Ones in NYC
As terror suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami may be learning, cellphones make convenient detonators—and convenient tracking devices. The post How Police…
Inside Google’s Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls
The company’s Jigsaw division is on a mission to protect the Internet’s most vulnerable. Trouble is, doing good is a…
How the FBI Could Have Hacked the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone
The technique hints that the FBI may have been more interested in setting a precedent by forcing Apple’s cooperation than…
Russian Hackers Get Bolder in Anti-Doping Agency Attack
The attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency, following the DNC hack, signals Russian hackers emerging from the shadows to brazenly…
Edward Snowden Really Needs Oliver Stone’s Hero Movie Right Now
A campaign to ask Obama to pardon the NSA whistleblower hopes for a boost from the film’s simplistic depiction of…
Powell Email Shows Clinton Was Hardly First to Break Security Rules
In a newly revealed email, Colin Powell dishes to Clinton on how he used private email and a PDA a…