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How a hacker’s mom broke into prison—and the warden’s computer

Congress gives small ISPs $1 billion to rip out Huawei/ZTE network gear

Stealing advanced nations’ Mac malware isn’t hard. Here’s how one hacker did it

Facebook cancels F8 conference over coronavirus fears

T-Mobile conducts layoffs as it prepares to complete Sprint merger

Ars Technicast special edition, part 3: Putting AI to work defending your stuff

Flaw in billions of Wi-Fi devices left communications open to eavesdroppng

Amazon made a bigger camera-spying store—so we tried to steal its fruit

Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs

Petnet goes offline for a week, can’t answer customers at all

California man arrested on charges his DDoSes took down candidate’s website

A weed dealer’s $59M lesson: Don’t hide Bitcoin keys with a fishing rod

The strange, unexplained journey of ToTok in Google Play fuels user suspicions

Former congressman confirms he offered to broker pardon for Assange

As satellite TV tanks, Dish says merger with DirectTV is “inevitable”

A US gas pipeline operator was infected by malware—your questions answered

Ars Technicast special edition, part 2: Spotting bad actors inside a company

Anatomy of a dumb spear-phish: Hitting librarians up for Zelle, CashApp cash

Why fixing security vulnerabilities in medical devices, IoT is so hard

US natural gas operator shuts down for 2 days after being infected by ransomware

Hackers exploit critical vulnerability found in ~100,000 WordPress sites

Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

US government exposes malware used in North Korean-sponsored hacking ops

500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users

Scythe prepares to launch marketplace of pwns for security testing platform