TODAY MARKS THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE ELECTION IN HISTORY, with more than $50 million spent on a battle royale between veteran GOP operative Karen Handel and Democratic newcomer Jon Ossoff. With the nation’s eyes upon Georgia’s 6th congressional district, one would hope for a baseline guarantee of electoral integrity. Read more

Azam Ahmed: One morning earlier this year, I got a call from Mario E. Patrón, a prominent human rights lawyer in Mexico. He wanted to talk in person. When he arrived at The New York Times’s Mexico bureau, he took a seat in the conference room and asked me for my phone. He then collected

When one of Australia’s richest people, mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, went public in 2015 with the admission that he had been cyber-hacked, it was a stark reminder that no one is safe, Despite the tycoon presumably having state-of-the-art cybersecurity measures in place, hackers managed to rip off $615,000 as it was being digitally transferred between

The Server Message Block version 1 (SMBv1) — a 30-year-old file sharing protocol which came to light last month after the devastating WannaCry outbreak — will be removed from the upcoming Windows 10 (1709) Redstone 3 Update. Read more

Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems — including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris — which can be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges to root, potentially leading to a full system takeover. Read more

Cyber criminals targeting casinos and mining firms in North America have extorted as much as $620,000 per theft during a four-year run in which they threaten victims with the destruction or public release of stolen data. Read more

The crusty SMBv1 file-sharing protocol, abused by a NSA exploit last month that spread WannaCry, will be removed from Windows 10 starting with the upcoming Redstone 3 update. “We can confirm that SMBv1 is being removed for Redstone 3,” a Microsoft representative told Threatpost. Read more

Google, for the second time this month, has removed malicious apps from Google Play that could have laid the groundwork for an attacker to root infected devices. A researcher with Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday described how attackers managed to evade settings set in place by Google Play’s VerifyApps malware scanner in order to sneak malware

A South Korean web hosting company is forking out just over US$1 million to ransomware scum after suffering more than eight days of nightmare. Nayana first announced the attack on June 10, saying customer video files and its database had been encrypted, and promising to work to recover the data. More than 150 servers were

Most famous human rights lawyers, activists, and journalists in Mexico have been targeted by a professional spyware called “Pegasus” sold to the government of Mexico to be used only to study criminals and terrorists. Read more