Heat death of the discourse?
There’s an undeniable feeling of the air coming out of the balloon of discourse on x.com. Some of this is…
Unpacking Disinformation in the 2024 US Presidential Election
The 2016 U.S. presidential election is often cited as a watershed moment for digital disinformation campaigns – revealing the vulnerability…
New Arcane infostealer infects YouTube, Discord users via game cheats
A newly discovered information-stealing malware called Arcane is stealing extensive user data, including VPN account credentials, gaming clients, messaging apps,…
U.S. Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched “Can Hacking Be Treason”
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online…
Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds…
TikTok’s sinister sibling WeChat is the CCP’s real social media weapon
For years, the U.S. has debated whether TikTok poses a serious threat to privacy, democracy, and national security. This scrutiny…
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access…
Hacker infects 18,000 “script kiddies” with fake malware builder
A threat actor targeted low-skilled hackers, known as "script kiddies," with a fake malware builder that secretly infected them with…
Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person's general location by simply…
Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs
A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a…