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Cybersecurity

‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

Tribal communities are facing a new threat: Instagram

Viral photos are becoming a sore spot for protected sites

How to block and report text spam

No strategy is 100 percent effective, but you can stop much of it

Winning the war on ransomware

Crossing the border, refugees scramble for a working SIM card

‘When there was no internet, I was left with nothing’

The vice president should not be using Bluetooth headphones

It’s not paranoid if they’re really spying on you

Microsoft says it took over servers being used by China-based hacking group Nickel

How to recover when your Facebook account is hacked

After decades of surveillance, Muslims struggle with how much to share online

Firefox’s latest security feature is designed to protect itself from buggy code

Keep it Locked

A special issue about protecting yourself in extreme circumstances

How to hide your email from data collectors

Preventing spam and tracking

Should abuse survivors have to disappear from the internet?

Google Photos’ Locked Folder is now rolling out to more Android phones

US State Department phones were reportedly hacked by NSO spyware

Facebook took down a fake Swiss scientist account that was part of an international misinfo campaign

Signal launches in-app sustainer program to accept donations from users

Ransomware attack on Planned Parenthood LA exposes info for 400,000 patients

Ubiquiti hack may have been an inside job, federal charges suggest

Android 101: How to stop location tracking

Australian PM proposes defamation laws that force social platforms to unmask trolls

Roblox sues YouTuber for temporarily shutting down conference with fake terrorist threat

Apple sues NSO Group for attacking iPhones with Pegasus spyware

Twitter introduces aliases for contributors to its Birdwatch moderation program

Over a million GoDaddy WordPress customers had email addresses exposed in latest breach

Yubico key organizer keeps your house keys tidy and your YubiKey security key safe

Robinhood says hackers also got thousands of phone numbers

The FBI’s email system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings

Russian “King of Fraud” sentenced to 10 years in prison for Methbot digital ad scheme

Screenshots reveal what extra information the Robinhood hackers accessed

An alleged member of the REvil ransomware gang has been arrested in Poland

The Israeli army is using facial recognition to track Palestinians, former soldiers reveal