After an earlier denial, the office of former prime minister Naftali Bennett acknowledged Wednesday that while his cellphone itself was not hacked, unauthorized access was gained to his Telegram account, following claims by an Iran-linked hacker group that it had breached his device. Images, contacts and other information claimed by the group to have been...Read More
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“Swamp chic” is how Hillary Hanning describes The Little House, the neighborhood bar she owns on New Orleans’ West Bank. It’s the kind of place where a customer can sip Croatian orange wine while surrounded by hanging chicken feet and taxidermied alligators. “Everything with this place, like even the colors on the wall, has something...Read More
Local News A national security segment revealed how hackers infiltrated the local utility network as part of a wider Chinese operation. The CBS logo at the entrance to its headquarters, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) A “60 Minutes” report uncovered how Chinese hackers infiltrated Littleton, Massachusetts’s electric and water systems, as one small town...Read More
The presenter Mike Graham has been dismissed from Rupert Murdoch’s digital channel TalkTV, after the company said he had failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts. Graham, 65, was suspended by the broadcaster, owned by Murdoch’s News UK, after concerns were raised about...Read More
(Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg) Remember when the Supreme Court was absolutely consumed with figuring out who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion? They assigned the Marshal to investigate, brought in outside help, and made scores of employees sign affidavits. The response was immediate, muscular, and deeply unserious. The investigation did basically everything except interview the justices, because...Read More
Hackers have accessed the search history and viewing habits of premium users of Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular pornography websites. A gang has reportedly accessed more than 200m data records, including premium members’ email addresses, search and viewing activities and locations. Pornhub is a heavily used site and says it has more than...Read More
Notepad++, a free open source text and code editor for the Windows operating system, suffered an “infrastructure-level compromise” last year by threat actors seeking to deliver malware to selected users. A post-mortem of the incident which started in June 2025, and which was reported to Notepad++ by security researchers, suggested the shared hosting server for...Read More
Though it had long stopped being the powerhouse that it once was, social media site MySpace hit the headlines in 2016 after 360 million user accounts were leaked onto both LeakedSource.com and put up for sale on dark web market The Real Deal with an asking price of 6 bitcoin (around $3,000 at the time)....Read More
I have a confession to make: I used to reuse passwords. It’s the number one security sin, but this was over a decade ago and I didn’t know about the best password managers yet. This was a huge mistake. And with news that researchers just uncovered a database of 16 billion records, including passwords and...Read More