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election 2024

A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security

Eric Geller

Cable Cutter

Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics

Matt Burgess

Grab and Run

How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

security roundup

Stop X’s Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets

Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

oops

A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Future Investment

Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech

Luca Zorloni

Olympics 2024

At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You

Morgan Meaker

Lurkers

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

Matt Burgess

Cookie Monster

This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations

Brian Merchant

Stone Cold

How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

Andy Greenberg

target practice

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

Matthew Gault

Security Roundup

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Taking Advantage

Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

Lily Hay Newman

Oops

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, and Andy Greenberg

Strike Out

Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

Matt Burgess

Paper Trail

JD Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, and Andrew Couts

Nick of Time

Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews

Ali Winston

Breaking the Rules

The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy

Eric Geller

Unhappy Places

Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages

Lily Hay Newman

FISA Fight

US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse

Dell Cameron