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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 Screen of Death, but it...

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

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

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 employees passed by us, ...

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. The latest headlines...

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

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 NSA program that gathe...

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

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 to offer it as a pub...

A senior official in the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit (FinCEN) was just arrested for leaking thousands of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) t...

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

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

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 psychological toll ...

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 anti-virus, but once a ...

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

One outrageous thing we learned about the Equifax breach (among many) is that three corporate executives sold company stock after the breach was discovered b...

Net Neutrality's demise may open the door to overdue cybersecurity improvements. Before you send me hate mail, let me reiterate my opposition to FCC’s repeal...

Hurricanes get names (Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria…) assigned alphabetically by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Service (NOAA). Biologists name new specie...

Apple’s new iPhone X hit stores November 3rd. Its most talked about feature is Face ID. Instead of touching your finger to the phone to unlock it, just loo...