U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html

targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work

Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/

60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not

The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories - Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack

No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.

Russia Targeted Investigators Trying to Expose Its Misdeeds, Western Allies Say - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html

the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014

Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html

Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook – WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-third-party-sites/

If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook.

How to hack an election—and what states should do to prevent fake votes - MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612070/how-to-hack-an-election-and-defensive-measures-states-should-take-to-prevent-fake-votes/

We need paper verifiable ballots, no internet voting, and we need to ensure we can audit ballots properly.

Hacking a Prince, an Emir and a Journalist to Impress a Client - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/middleeast/hacking-united-arab-emirates-nso-group.html

leaked documents and emails that directly challenge the company’s repeated assertions that it is not responsible for any illegal surveillance conducted by the governments that buy its spyware.

Fortnite’s Android installer shipped with an Epic security flaw – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/24/fortnites-android-installer-shipped-with-an-epic-security-flaw/

[made] Fortnite available for Android via its own website instead of Google’s Play Store.

had a … security flaw in it that would allow a malicious actor to essentially install any software

Hundreds of Instagram users report that their accounts have been hacked, with emails and phone numbers tied to accounts changed, preventing account recovery – Mashable

https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/instagram-hack-locked-out-of-account/#C5l2Wp7_pqqs