data Data of 2.4 million more Equifax customers leaked Seamus Bellamy

politics Unsuccessful hack targeted New York Times in Moscow, FBI blames Russia Xeni Jardin

hackers Scammers stole $2.3 billion in "business email compromise" attacks, FBI reports Xeni Jardin

law IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

crime Ex-Microsoft engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currencies from Microsoft to make extravagant purchases Xeni Jardin

Business US charges 4 Chinese spies with hacking Equifax Xeni Jardin

security After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits Cory Doctorow

corruption Brazil's authoritarians charge Glenn Greenwald with cybercrime for publishing leaks that revealed corruption at the highest levels Cory Doctorow

security When FBI complained, Apple dumped plans for encrypted iPhone backups: Report Xeni Jardin

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

china A Wechat-based "mobile court" presided over by a chatbot has handled 3m legal procedures since March Cory Doctorow

Technology Feds charge Evil Corp, Russia-based creators of Dridex malware, in $100 million bank hacking spree Xeni Jardin

security White House cybersecurity adviser Giuliani took his iPhone to the Genius Bar when he forgot his password David Pescovitz

cybersecurity Hackers be hacking: NordVPN servers compromised Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Kickstarting a new feminist bicycle science fiction: this one's about dragons! Cory Doctorow

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

security You have the right to remain encrypted Albert Fox Cahn & Ayyan Zubair

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow