Security News This Week: FBI Finds Hackers Poking Around More Voter Registry Sites
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but still deserve your…
A Top-Shelf iPhone Hack Now Goes for $1.5 Million
Zerodium offered $1 million for iPhone/iPad zero days when Apple released iOS 9 last year. With iOS 10, the rate…
Time to Kill Security Questions—or Answer Them With Lies
Security questions for password recovery are fundamentally insecure. But if we can’t abolish them, we can at least make our…
Our Favorite Hacker Moments From Mr. Robot Season 2
USA’s Mr. Robot is known for its authentic portrayal of hacking. We’ve culled this season’s best tidbits, from big hacks…
As Elections Loom, Officials Debate How to Protect Voting From Hackers
With elections a few weeks away, government officials and lawmakers are debating whether to classify voting systems as critical infrastructure.…
Cloudflare Launches a Three-Pronged Attack to Encrypt the Entire Web
The Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is adding three new encryption features to protect more web traffic from prying eyes. The…
U.K. Judge OKs Extradition to the U.S. for Hacktivist Lauri Love
Love is accused of hacking into many U.S. government websites, like the Federal Reserve, NASA, and FBI. The post U.K.…
NY Cracks Down on Mattel and Hasbro For Tracking Kids Online
NY state fines Viacom, Mattel, JumpStart, and Hasbro for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by tracking kids under…
Hack Brief: Beware the Spammy Pokemon Go Apps Being Pushed to Millions of iPhones
Malicious third-party app stores ride on the notoriety of viral apps to trick people into downloading their phony software. The…
Machine Learning Can Identify Pixelated Faces, Researchers Show
Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images. The post…