How to Check If Your Facebook Account Got Hacked—And How Badly
Facebook Friday offered more details about its recent breach. Here's how to see if you were affected. ...
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How the US Halted China’s Cybertheft—Using a Chinese Spy
For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here's the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while. ...
Pentagon Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds
A new report says the Department of Defense "likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity." ...
Pentagon Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds
A new report says the Department of Defense "likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity." ...
Google+ Shuts Down Over Breach as Google Offers New Privacy Features
Google got caught hiding a privacy issue affecting 500,000 users on the same day it rolled out privacy protections. ...
Don’t Buy the Trump Administration’s China Misdirection
The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016. ...
A ‘Scarily Simple’ Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers at Risk
The most straightforward insecurities can sometimes be the riskiest. ...
Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac
By only checking a file's code signature when you install it—and never again—macOS gives malware a chance to evade detection indefinitely. ...
The Presidential Text Alert Has a Long, Strange History
While the presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first of its kind, it's part of a decades-long lineage of official government Doomsday alerts. ...
The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure
Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse. ...