Most people have heard of the dark web, but few understand what it actually looks like or what goes on there. To separate fact from fiction, our research team spent 48 hours exploring it firsthand and documenting what we found. The dark web isn’t inherently bad. It also serves legitimate purposes, providing a layer of […]

Meta has paused a controversial employee‑tracking program after an internal security review found that highly granular keystroke and screen‑capture data from staff laptops was far more widely accessible inside the company than intended. The program was part of Meta’s Model Capability Initiative (MCI), which collected mouse movements, click locations, keystrokes, and screen content from employees’ […]

You can change a password and cancel a card. But replacing a passport or driver’s license number every time someone leaves yours unsecured in a vendor database isn’t so easy. More than three million Texans are facing that problem after a data breach involving a vendor used by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) […]

A new wave of scam websites is offering something millions of people want: a way to play Grand Theft Auto VI before it comes out. “Get GTA 6 before everyone else.” “Buy VIP early access.” Pay a few hundred dollars in cryptocurrency, enter a payment code, and supposedly unlock the game. But it’s a scam. […]

Researchers have found that the recently discovered AryStinger botnet has quietly hijacked thousands of end‑of‑life D‑Link routers and some network-attached storage (NAS) devices, turning them into a distributed scanning and proxy network that attackers can use to hide their activity and launch attacks against other targets.  Having your devices under control of a botnet is […]