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For decades, fake IDs had roughly three purposes: Buying booze before legally allowed, getting into age-restricted clubs, and, we can only assume, completing nation-state spycraft for embedded inform…

If your IT and security teams think malware is bad, wait until they learn about everything else.

In 2024, the modern cyberattack is a segmented, prolonged, and professional effort, in which specialist…

If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying.

That’s the latest prediction from noted cryptographer and computer secu…

On Thursday, December 28, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidnapping.

17-year-old foreign exchange student Kai Zhuang was missing…

Hackers want to know everything about you: Your credit card number, your ID and passport info, and now, your DNA.

On October 1 2023, on a hacking website called BreachForums, a group of cybercriminals…

It talks, it squawks, it even blocks! The stocking-stuffer on every hobby hacker’s wish list this year is the Flipper Zero.

“Talk” across low-frequency radio to surreptitiously change TV channels, emu…

Like the grade-school dweeb who reminds their teacher to assign tonight’s homework, or the power-tripping homeowner who threatens every neighbor with an HOA citation, the ransomware group ALPHV can n…

A worrying trend is cropping up amongst Americans, particularly within Generation Z—they're spying on each other more.

Whether reading someone's DMs, rifling through a partner's text messages, or even…

In September, the Las Vegas casino and hotel operator MGM Resorts became a trending topic on social media... but for all the wrong reasons. A TikTok user posted a video taken from inside the casino f…

What are you most worried about online? And what are you doing to stay safe? 

Depending on who you are, those could be very different answers, but for teenagers and members of Generation Z, the intern…

When you think of the modern tools that most invade your privacy, what do you picture?

There's the obvious answers, like social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram. There's email and "eve…

In 2022, Malwarebytes investigated the blurry, shifting idea of “identity” on the internet, and how online identities are not only shaped by the people behind them, but also inherited by the internet…

Becky Holmes is a big deal online. 

Hugh Jackman has invited her to dinner. Prince William has told her she has "such a beautiful name." Once, Ricky Gervais simply needed her photos ("I want you to ta…

"Freedom" is a big word, and for many parents today, it's a word that includes location tracking. 

Across America, parents are snapping up Apple AirTags, the inexpensive location tracking devices that…

Earlier this month, a group of hackers was spotted using a set of malicious tools—that originally gained popularity with online video game cheaters—to hide their Windows-based malware from being dete…

The language of a data breach, no matter what company gets hit, is largely the same. There's the stolen data—be it email addresses, credit card numbers, or even medical records. There are the users—u…

In the United States, when the police want to conduct a search on a suspected criminal, they must first obtain a search warrant. It is one of the foundational rights given to US persons under the Con…

When you think about the word "cyberthreat," what first comes to mind? Is it ransomware? Is it spyware? Maybe it's any collection of the infamous viruses, worms, Trojans, and botnets that have crippl…

In May, a lawyer who was defending their client in a lawsuit against Columbia's biggest airline, Avianca, submitted a legal filing before a court in Manhattan, New York, that listed several previous …

On January 1, 2023, the Internet in Louisiana looked a little different than the Internet in Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas—its next-door state neighbors. And on May 1, the Internet in Utah looked …