Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.On Thursday, Twitter continued its grand tradition of embracing features users had unofficially...
A Ransomware Group Hit DC Police—Then Pivoted to Extortion
Warrantless searches, tracking troops, and more of the week’s top security news.
It's been a busy week. There's a lot to catch up on. But before you continue reading, please take a...
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him.
For a decade, Bitcoin Fog has offered to obscure the...
Signal's Founder Hacked a Notorious Phone-Cracking Device
Plus: App Store scams, an anti-surveillance bill, and more of the week’s top security news.This week, Apple’s spring product launch event was marred by a ransomware attack against one of its...
Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Has a 500M User Data Leak
Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, it seems like we’re in for another one, this time involving LinkedIn.
An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has...
Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return.
From June 2019 until this February, 1.4 million people in Myanmar's Rakhine state...