The latest coverage of the Department of Homeland Security and cyber threats around the globe.
Hours into the launch of The Walt Disney Company’s new personal streaming service, Disney+, users reported hackers stealing their accounts are offering them for free or are selling them for $3 to $11.
Facebook announced Wednesday it has removed millions of posts that violated its hate speech and child exploitation guidelines, marking an increase in posts removed as the company faces scrutiny for what content it allows.
Internet freedoms in the U.S. and around the world declined during the last year due in large part to ongoing problems posed by social media, experts reported Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union, accusing the federal government of hiding its use of facial recognition technology, filed a lawsuit to get more information about the potential invasion of privacy.
Edward Snowden opened up Friday as to why the fugitive former U.S. government contractor has largely avoided speaking to media outlets in Russia since he started living there.
Democrats on Capitol Hill accused Attorney General William P. Barr on Thursday of mounting a misguided effort to stop Facebook from further securing its users’ communications.
Russia interfered in the 2016 election and may try to sway next year’s vote as well. But it’s not the only nation with an eye on U.S. politics.
The chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee renewed calls Friday for her Republican counterpart to take a stand against candidates using hacked or stolen material.
The White House is putting itself at greater risk of being hacked because of recent personnel changes, an outgoing administration official warned in a memorandum leaked Wednesday.
Politicians, high-tech firms and the media have sounded the alarm about deepfake videos as a primary threat to the democratic process.
A bipartisan cadre of representatives grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday about the company’s new cryptocurrency venture, Libra, and raised concerns about its ability to be used to enrich bad actors and act as an economic weapon.
Rep. Katie Hill, California Democrat, says she’s asked for an investigation into intimate photos she says were posted online without her consent.
Actress Alexis Bledel has been bookish and sweet on “Gilmore Girls” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” But the actress herself is now officially dangerous.
Facebook outlined new steps Monday to prevent efforts to use its platform as a tool for interfering in election politics around the world.
The United States and the U.K. say they have exposed how a group of Russian hackers hijacked the tools of their Iranian counterparts to attack dozens of countries around the world.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to appear in court as he fights extradition to the United States on charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer.
The U.S. waged a secret “cyber operation” against Iran after finding the country was responsible for attacking Saudi Arabian oil facilities last month, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The Democratic National Committee reportedly warned presidential campaigns on the eve of Tuesday’s primary debate to remain vigilant in countering online disinformation.
Jeremy Hammond, an imprisoned computer hacker and activist, was found in contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to testify in front of a federal grand jury, his supporters said.
Social media companies raced to purge their platforms of footage broadcast live on the internet of a deadly shooting near a synagogue Wednesday in Halle, Germany.
The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the U.S. says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups.
The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that individual member countries can force Facebook to remove what they regard as unlawful material from the social network all over the world — a decision experts say could hinder free speech online and put a heavy burden on tech companies.
The FBI’s official Facebook page quietly started running paid advertisements on the platform soliciting assistance from potential Russian assets, a report revealed Wednesday.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Communications Commission can toss out rules that block internet providers from favoring some services, but it said the FCC cannot bar states from implementing their own net neutrality regulations.
A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
The U.S. imposed sanctions Monday on a Russian troll farm and a Russian financier for trying to influence the midterm congressional elections in 2018.
The whistleblower at Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm linked to using social media for targeted political ads, has a book deal.
Facebook remains the most popular internet platform among governments manipulating public opinion online, researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. reported Thursday.
Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, said Thursday that the most significant threats to the United States are occurring in the “cyber realm.”
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s controversial new book is being used as bait to infect computers with malicious software, a cybersecurity firm warned.
Google won a major case in the European Union on Tuesday, when the bloc’s top court ruled that the U.S. internet giant doesn’t have to extend the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rules to its search engines outside the region.
Facebook said Friday that it has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps made by about 400 developers as part of an investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
A board that oversees Detroit police has approved the use of facial recognition technology to investigate crimes.
A Miami American Airlines mechanic who reportedly sabotaged a commercial jet in July might have ties to the Islamic State, prosecutors said Wednesday.
White supremacist terrorism has become an international threat as nationalists in America and Europe are connecting online to push their hateful ideology a group of experts said Wednesday in testimony before two congressional panels.
Robert O’Brien, President Trump’s newest national security adviser, faced pressure Wednesday to reinstate a cybersecurity position eliminated under his predecessor, John R. Bolton.
In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al Qaeda before it’s reported.
The U.S. filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden for publishing a book that the Justice Department says violates a non-disclosure agreement he signed with his former employers at the CIA and the National Security Agency.
Facebook has purged its platforms of hundreds of accounts and pages for engaging in “domestic-focused coordinated inauthentic behavior” in Iraq and Ukraine, the company said Monday.
Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor who detailed the extent of government surveillance programs by leaking classified documents, said Monday he’s hoping French President Emmanuel Macron will grant him asylum in France.
Long before President Trump threatened to cut off Huawei’s access to U.S. technology, the Chinese telecom equipment maker was pouring money into research that reduces its need for American suppliers.
A key piece of the Pentagon’s plan to beat China and Russia in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race lies inside a research facility along the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh.
American universities have continued to be targeted by suspected Iranian state-sponsored hackers despite previous attacks drawing the attention of the Department of Justice, a cybersecurity firm reported Wednesday.
A federal judge said Monday that Facebook has a warped idea of privacy after he ordered the company to face a lawsuit seeking damages from allowing third-party sites to harvest users’ data.
A bipartisan collection of 50 attorneys general from states and U.S. territories united Monday in Washington to announce an investigation into Google, exploring whether the internet search giant violated state and federal antitrust laws as it moved to dominate the online advertising market.
Fifty U.S. states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google’s “potential monopolistic behavior.”
Facebook announced Thursday that the company is investing $10 million toward tackling so-called “deepfake” technology amid concerns over its potential to manipulate public opinion.
Ransomware is among the threats causing concern ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the leader of the National Security Agency’s newly created cybersecurity directorate reportedly said Wednesday.
The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Facebook needs to act fast to prevent its Instagram app from being weaponized to spread disinformation during the 2020 U.S. presidential race, a report warned Tuesday.
Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations its YouTube video service collected personal data on children without their parents’ consent.
Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei accused U.S. authorities on Wednesday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company.
Together the PLA intelligence units have placed China at the forefront of the most significant foreign intelligence threat to American security.
Facebook announced Tuesday it will make it easier for users to turn off automatic facial recognition, after a government regulator had called the company’s practice “deceptive.”
