Passphrases are much stronger than ordinary passwords -- and a heck of a lot easier to remember. But that's only the start to securing yourself on today's hostile internet. Here's how to protect yourself.

MGM Resorts said security incident took place last summer and notified impacted guests last year.

Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date. That means websites using long-life SSL/TLS certs issued after the cut-off point will throw up privacy errors in Apple's browser. The policy was unveiled by the iGiant at a Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser) meeting on Wednesday.

Yes, some third parties are still supporting Windows 7, but that doesn’t mean you have to stick with the status quo, no matter how tempting that may be.

Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a midwestern-looking man in his 60s, asked for help. He couldn't figure out how to enable airplane mode on his aging Android phone. But when Marlinspike saw the screen, he wondered for a moment if he was being trolled: Among just a handful of apps installed on the phone was Signal.

US officials talk about all the methods the Chinese government and its agents have been using to target US companies and universities to steal intellectual property.

You've got no shortage of options sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets.

Like about a billion other people, 17-year-old Samantha Mosley spent her Saturday afternoon perusing Instagram. She was taking a glance at the Explore tab, a feature on Instagram that shows you posts tailored for your interests based on algorithms that track your online activities and target posts to your feed.

The FBI is investigating a shootout that wounded two Mexican guards near a border wall construction site in California last year, The Washington Post reported. The shootout reportedly occurred on July 1, 2019, when the guards were ambushed while protecting materials and equipment from a Texas-based construction contractor. The guards returned fire and sustained several gunshot wounds, the Post reported.

The U.S. Department of Interior essentially banned Chinese-made drones and drone parts because of the fear of these drones’ potential to be used for spying. The new no-fly rule is explicitly aimed at foreign drones and the only exceptions would be for responding to natural disasters or other emergencies.

Apple WebKit engineers have put forward a proposal to make one-time passcode SMS messages more secure by developing a standardized format for the two-step verification process, reports ZDNet.

Ring doorbells are providing customer data to companies such as Facebook and Google, an investigation suggests. The Electronic Frontier Foundation found the Ring app was "packed" with third-party tracking, sending out customers' personally identifiable information. Five companies were receiving a range of information, including names, IP addresses and mobile networks, it said.

Currently, we have over 26-billion IoT devices running in our workplaces, offices and homes. If you're looking for an IoT security scorecard, it looks something like this: Security Threats: 26,000,000,000, IoT Secure Devices: 0.

While most people were out celebrating the start of a new year, Microsoft's security teams were working overtime to close a potentially enormous security loophole. On Thursday, the company disclosed a database error that temporarily left approximately 250 million customer service and support records accessible to anyone with a web browser.

The internet was designed to make information free and easy for anyone to access. But as the amount of personal information online has grown, so too have the risks. Last weekend, a nightmare scenario for many privacy advocates arrived. The New York Times revealed Clearview AI, a secretive surveillance company, was selling a facial recognition tool to law enforcement powered by “three billion images” culled from the open web.

Check out the most common cyberattacks and how to prevent them.

2020 is off to a chaotic start, but locking down your online privacy is still vital. Give yourself an online privacy check-up and start 2020 securely

There are tools to crack into the phones at the center of a new dispute over encryption. But the F.BI. says it still needs Apple’s aide.

Foreign military bases are integral to preparations for war. The bases intended to increase violence, undermine international security and proliferate weapons.

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