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Hackers are pulling the strings far beyond cyberspace. A research team has uncovered details of a scam to hijack real-world cargo shipments. Here's NPR cybersecurity correspondent Jenna McLaughlin.

AI is doing more of the hard work for hackers, Anthropic says, as cybercriminals adopt autonomous tools for sophisticated ...

Nine Mexican government agencies were hacked in an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber campaign between December 2025 and mid-February 2026 in what researchers have said should "serve as a ...

Social media users are alarmed by claims that hackers can extract fingerprints from peace sign selfies. Reports highlight ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

The vulnerability was found by a team at Check Point Research. It found that a large number of media players place very poor security around the mechanisms used to process and parse subtitle files.

TECH FIRMS usually create buzz around products they plan to release. Anthropic, an American artificial-intelligence lab, has managed to create excitement—and a good deal of worry—around something it ...

JCU Associate Professor of Information Technology Roberto Dillon has published his new historical analysis in the journal New ...