Kevin Collier was a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed News from 2017 to 2019
A fierce battle over the regulation of the internet was riddled with millions of fake comments in the most prolific known instance of political impersonation in US history.
The Democratic National Committee, worried about appearing partial to a specific candidate, has not spoken directly with 2020 campaigns about cybersecurity.
A British think tank that counters Russian information operations has been hacked — and Russian media outlets are all over the leaked material.
The man who doxed politicians but spared the far right “is dissatisfied with public statements made by politicians,” a German official said.
There's little indication who's behind the hack or hacks, but they don't seem interested in exposing Germany's far right.
In a classified report, the US director of national intelligence confirmed that Russia, and to an extent China and Iran, tried to influence American voters in November.
The accusations that China steals secrets from companies and gives the secrets to its own businesses isn't new, but a joint international condemnation is.
People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.
China hasn't even acknowledged that the topic came up when Trump and President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires.
As the US grows increasingly comfortable with "name-and-shame" tactics against hackers who work for China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, it's only a matter of time before US government hackers are outed.
The new accounts surfaced after BuzzFeed News published a report in November that questioned John Draper's interactions with young hackers at conventions.
The claims against John Draper, better known as Cap'n Crunch, a pioneer hacker and an early associate of Apple cofounders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, are yet another example of how celebrity can be abused.
In 2016, Cassandra Ford renamed a Twitter account for the persona leaking hacked Democratic emails. That earned the FBI's interest and a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Winner faced up to 10 years in prison.
The Russian news outlet TV Rain reported that Agata Burdonova moved to the US in December.
DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker — and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
The NSA document she leaked detailed which US election offices had received spear-phishing emails from Russia's military intelligence agency, something the US government still has not discussed publicly.
The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force was announced eight months ago. It hasn't been heard from since.
Attribution of the attack to North Korea was viewed skeptically at the time. But the indictment this week of North Korea for the hack may lift that skepticism.
“For so long, NSA made the emphasis on the mission,” said one former agency hacker who dealt with the previous shutdown. “It’s clear that Congress didn't care about the mission if they were willing to act like petulant children.”