People ask this question expecting a yes-or-no answer, and that's usually where the confusion starts. Disappearing online isn't one thing. It's at least four separate things wearing the same trench coat: hiding your identity, hiding your location, hiding your activity, and hiding your existence in d...

AI is getting surprisingly good at finding security flaws—but it still isn't catching everything.

Earlier this year, Anthropic's AI model discovered a real vulnerability in the Linux kernel, and developers quickly patched it. The problem seemed solved.

Then security researcher Jaeyoung Chung e...

Roughly half the world's internet users live somewhere a VPN is restricted in one way or another. That's not a fringe statistic — it's basically half the planet. And yet the word "ban" gets thrown around so loosely that it's genuinely hard to tell which countries have actually outlawed VPNs, which o...

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has extended its deadline for Meta to respond to concerns over WhatsApp's upcoming username feature, moving the cutoff from July 6 to July 9. The rollout remains on hold in the country in the meantime.

Meta announced on June 29 that WhatsA...

A newly published case study is pulling back the curtain on how a modern-day extortion deal actually plays out — and it's not the ransomware story most people picture. A hacking group calling itself Kairos hit a small US county government, stole roughly 2 terabytes of data, and got paid about $1 mil...

Security firm runZero just disclosed seven vulnerabilities in something almost nobody's heard of but nearly everything runs on: FatFs, a small piece of code that lets devices read and write USB drives and SD cards. It's baked into the firmware behind security cameras, drones, industrial equipment, h...

A familiar voice on a call. A face you recognize on a Zoom screen. For most of history, that was enough to trust the person on the other end. It isn't anymore.

Real-time voice and video generation has quietly become a working tool for scammers, not a sci-fi concept. Grab a handful of public record...

There's a new phishing trick going around, and it's a genuinely strange one: attackers are exploiting the fact that AI chatbots make things up. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 call it "phantom squatting" — and it works by targeting a habit large language models can't seem to shake: invent...

India's government is reportedly working on a plan that would tighten the screws on VPN providers operating in the country — this time by requiring them to appoint dedicated compliance officers who'd work directly with law enforcement and CERT-In, the country's cyber emergency response team.

The i...