In 2015, researchers revealed that some Lenovo laptops shipped with adware called Superfish, which installed its own trusted certificate on the machine. That let it read encrypted web traffic, including banking sessions, without any warning in the browser. Nobody had... Read more

In 2019, a misconfigured storage bucket at Capital One let an attacker pull data on roughly 100 million customers. The bank had strong security overall, yet one wrong permission setting was enough. That case sits at the heart of these... Read more

In 2012, LinkedIn lost about 6.5 million password hashes to attackers, and the real damage came later. Years afterwards, a much larger dump surfaced, and security researchers noted that a huge share of the passwords inside were cracked within days.... Read more

In early 2024, a finance worker at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with what looked like the company’s chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face and voice on that call was fake. The worker was convinced... Read more

A single click is all it takes. One fake email, one weak password, one unsecured Wi-Fi connection, and your personal information can end up in the hands of a stranger. That is not a scare tactic. It is the reality... Read more

The internet is a powerful place. You can run a business, connect with family across the world, shop, learn, and bank — all from your couch. But that same convenience comes with real risk. Every time you log in somewhere,... Read more