On April 9th, 2026 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data -- including highly classified defense documents...
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On April 6th, 2026 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
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On March 27th, 2026 with 82 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Iran-linked hackers have broken into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs...
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On March 24th, 2026 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from those who are suspected of breaching the...
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On March 19th, 2026 with 87 comments
For the second time in the past month, an AI agent went rogue at Meta -- this time giving an engineer incorrect advice that briefly exposed sensitive data. The...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 114 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location histories to aid federal...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 64 comments
ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, yearslong concerns about Microsoft's GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it anyway...
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On March 10th, 2026 with 21 comments
The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed possible unauthorized...
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On March 6th, 2026 with 166 comments
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing...
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On February 27th, 2026 with 26 comments
New submitter DeanonymizedCoward shares a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is reportedly in crisis...
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On February 25th, 2026 with 22 comments
A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of...
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On January 30th, 2026 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: The White House has announced that software security guidance issued during the Biden administration has...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 21 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker's neighbor mentioned to him that she'd preordered a couple of stuffed...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 13 comments
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: The FBI has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform used to advertise a wide range of malware...
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On January 28th, 2026 with 19 comments
Amazon is discontinuing its Amazon One palm recognition ID system for stores later this year, the company informed users. From a report: The company will...
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On January 27th, 2026 with 7 comments
A data breach at SoundCloud exposed information tied to 29.8 million user accounts, according to Have I Been Pwned. While SoundCloud says no passwords or...
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On December 23rd, 2025 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously...
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On December 18th, 2025 with 17 comments
Hackers breached approximately 120,000 IP cameras across South Korea and allegedly sold footage captured from private homes, gynecology offices, breastfeeding...
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On December 13th, 2025 with 64 comments
A former Chinese official who fled to the U.S. says Beijing has used advanced surveillance technology from U.S. companies to track, intimidate, and punish him...
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On December 12th, 2025 with 4 comments
Online retailer Coupang, often called South Korea's Amazon, is dealing with the fallout from a breach that exposed the personal information of more than 33...
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On December 11th, 2025 with 18 comments
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: More than 10,000 Docker Hub container images expose data that should be protected, including live credentials...
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On December 9th, 2025 with 147 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader Randseed writes: With the likes of Google Nest, Ring, and others cooperating with law enforcement, I started to look for affordable...
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On December 3rd, 2025 with 15 comments
India has withdrawn its order requiring Apple and other smartphone makers to preinstall the government's Sanchar Saathi app after public backlash and privacy...
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On December 1st, 2025 with 2 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang over the weekend said nearly 34 million Korean customers'...
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On November 25th, 2025 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: CISA has warned that state-backed snoops and cyber-mercenaries are actively abusing commercial spyware to break into...
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On November 22nd, 2025 with 42 comments
A magician who implanted an RFID chip in his hand lost access to it after forgetting the password, leaving him effectively locked out of the tech embedded in...
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On November 21st, 2025 with 16 comments
The SEC has officially dismissed its high-profile case against SolarWinds and its CISO that was tied to a Russia-linked cyberattack involving the software...
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On November 20th, 2025 with 57 comments
An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell...
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On November 14th, 2025 with 31 comments
"Within the past year, stories have been posted on Slashdot about people helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at U.S. corporations, companies knowingly...
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On November 14th, 2025 with 5 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Logitech has confirmed a cybersecurity breach after an intruder exploited a zero-day in a third-party software platform and copied...
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Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
