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ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Exit Strategy

US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car

Caroline Haskins

Inhumanity

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

Dhruv Mehrotra

Attack of the Clones

Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage

Lily Hay Newman

Uncanny Valley

The Trump Administration Sure Is Having Trouble Keeping Its Comms Private

Zoë Schiffer and Lily Hay Newman

High Visibility

The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats

Lily Hay Newman

P@55W0RD

Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years

Tim Marchman

Say Cheese

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

Caroline Haskins

Phone Wars

Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked

Lily Hay Newman

Poisoned Well

Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US

Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

Hacking Spree Hits UK Retail Giants

Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, and Dhruv Mehrotra

Signal Trouble

Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal

Lily Hay Newman

Give and Take

Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

Kate O'Flaherty

secret agents

North Korea Stole Your Job

Bobbie Johnson

Bad Inventions

AI Code Hallucinations Increase the Risk of ‘Package Confusion’ Attacks

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

AI Inside

WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy

Lily Hay Newman

Internet of Flaws

Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi

Lily Hay Newman and Andy Greenberg

Overtake

Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Dell Cameron

Security Roundup

Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control

Matt Burgess and Andrew Couts

Uncanny Valley

Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Katie Drummond