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Getting back to the basics can help you mitigate the impact of mass data breaches

The best time to patch your connected devices is all the time

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CBP searched an Australian journalist’s phone. He noted he was questioned over materials in his blog, social media posts, and reporting

The report also examines users’ choices in authentication methods, highlighting passkeys

Automated license plate readers are everywhere, and they can often tell a story about your movement

Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft’s new Recall AI feature

Telegram’s transparency reporting bot suggests their compliance with data requests from authorities has exploded between 2024 and 2025.

The lawsuit also reveals more about how NSO Group executed its attacks on WhatsApp users, including journalists.

Look, neither one of us wants this. But we’re going to have to keep talking about how defense officials are using Signal in unusual ways

Third-party cookie ad tracking in Chrome is here to stay. If you’re sticking with Chrome, let’s talk about some safer settings.

The Signalgate saga continues. This time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent operational Yemen missile strike details to his wife and brother. Fortunately you can learn from Hegseth’s mistakes.

If you’re like me, you’re thinking about whether to buy electronics ahead of potential tariffs, and how long those devices will receive updates

A transparency win in a case concerning backdoor requests to Apple 

Friends don’t let friends show the national security adviser is on their Venmo contact list

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic is added to a Signal group chat discussing national security information — presumably by accident

If our digital security trainer were in charge of data broker services, he might keep his cards closer to the vest. But that’s just him

Browser extensions are powerful, but not all are trustworthy. Here’s how to scale back to the ones you trust

Google updates its “Results about you” tool to help users remove unwanted or outdated information about themselves

After government demands for global access to Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud, the company disables the feature regionally

While X might be able to block links, it will have a tougher time blocking Signal usernames

The “snoopers’ charter” order for access to end-to-end encrypted iCloud accounts applies globally

Ever linked a new device to your Signal account, only to find you didn’t get your old messages? No longer!

In one of his first moves as president, Trump disbands cybersecurity board tasked with investigating Chinese attacks on U.S. telecoms