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Plastic surgeries have been warned that they are being targeted by cybercriminals plotting to steal sensitive data - ncluding patients' medical records and photographs - that will be later used…

Amnesty International has published a comprehensive analysis of the Predator government spyware products. These technologies used to be the exclusive purview of organizations like the NSA. Now they’re available to…

Online voting is insecure, period. This doesn’t stop organizations and governments from using it. (And for low-stakes elections, it’s probably fine.) Switzerland—not low stakes—uses online voting for national elections. Ed…

One of the world's largest online travel agencies, Booking.com, is being used by fraudsters to trick hotel guests into handing over their payment card details. How do I know? The…

The Government of Israel has told the owners of private home security cameras to urgently secure them against being hacked, in the wake of a dramatic heightening of the conflict…

Over the weekend rumours circulated on social networks of an unpatched security hole in the Signal messaging app that could allow a remote hacker to seize control of your smartphone.…

Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips…

Article about squid intelligence. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting…

Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students…

Valve, the company behind the Steam video game platform, has announced a new security feature after multiple reports of game updates being poisoned with malware. But have they chosen the…

This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were…

Facebook's official UK account was compromised on Friday evening by a cricket lover, who was seemingly just as surprised as the rest of us... Read More  

There’s a new Cisco vulnerability in its Emergency Responder product: This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are typically reserved for…