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It’s not just us; many of our Artificial Intelligence systems are racist too. This is particularly true in cybersecurity and law enforcem...

When the NotPetya virus ravaged corporate networks worldwide, it was particularly devastating to global shipping company Maersk. Ports ar...

Apple and Google are releasing their jointly developed Covid-19 contact tracing feature (wisely renamed “exposure notification”). Soon ev...

As Americans hunker down for a pandemic, conspiracy theories seem to spread faster than the virus: Covid-19 is caused by 5G networks. Veg...

If you or someone you know still has a PC running Windows 7, you may have screen this warning screen. It’s not quite the dreaded Blue Scr...

I was on the front lines when Iran attacked American banks via the Internet. One by one, online banking services were knocked offline: Ba...

Thanks to news coverage of President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky, Americans are learning about a conspiracy theo...

I was eating lunch with the chief of security at a social network a few years ago. As we sat in his company’s sunny courtyard, young empl...

SIM Swapping is in the news again, reminding us the US has let this madness continue while other countries took strong steps to stop it. ...

FaceApp is enjoying another viral moment fueled by celebrity selfies, while sparking dire warnings from security and privacy experts. Now...

Along with the rest of the USA Freedom Act, the Call Detail Records (CDR) program is set to expire on 12/15/2019. This is the infamous NS...

After a whistle blower leaked the news to journalist Brian Krebs, who announced it on his blog, Facebook officially admitted that it has ...

Smelling blood, American adversaries began circling like sharks during the 35-day partial government shutdown.

NIST’s Random Bit Beacon is a Game Changer The US government just unveiled a machine that can generate truly random 1s and 0s. They plan ...

A senior official in the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit (FinCEN) was just arrested for leaking thousands of Suspicious Activ...

Chinese cyber exploits are back in the news with a bombshell story claiming China planted tiny “spy chips” inside Made in China servers n...

The ACLU conducted a controversial experiment last week with Amazon’s popular face matching software Rekognition. They ran photos of ever...

Cyber security is played for high stakes in a world of shadowy threats. Although it’s seldom discussed openly, this dark game can take a...

It’s time to give your Windows PC a security spring cleaning! I’m sure you’re doing all the basics, like updating Windows and running ant...

You probably know Cambridge researchers got access to 50 million Facebook user profiles, then gave the data to a private political operat...