Kaveh Waddell
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters How the Rise of Electronics Has Made Smuggling Bombs Easier
New restrictions on flights from the Middle East reflect how just about anything with power can be turned into an explosive.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles: 17 Hours Without a Laptop
DHS has banned carry-on devices larger than a smartphone on flights from 10 airports across the Middle East.
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Kim Kulish / Corbis / Getty Hacking Tools Get Peer Reviewed, Too
A government-led effort paves the way for data extracted from electronic devices to be accepted as evidence in court.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump's Cyber Skepticism Hasn't Stopped Charges Against Foreign Hackers
The Justice Department has indicted four Russians for their roles in a cyberattack on Yahoo that compromised half a billion user accounts.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What Happens If a Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in Manhattan?
A computer model is in the works to simulate how New Yorkers would respond in the the first 30 days after a nuclear attack.
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Itziar Aio / Getty Your Hot Hands Can Give Away Your Smartphone PIN
Thermal images reveal what parts of the screen were tapped, even after it’s left untouched for 30 seconds.
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Should Journalists Be More Cautious of WikiLeaks?
With its latest leak, the site is daring reporters to go on a scavenger hunt for scoops.
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Korean Central News Agency / Handout via Reuters The Cyberwar Information Gap
Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
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Korean Central News Agency / handout via Reuters Is It Wise to Foil North Korea’s Nuclear Tests With Cyberattacks?
“This could set off very serious alarm bells in Beijing and Moscow.”
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AP The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away From the President
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
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Stephen Chernin / Getty How Long Can Border Agents Keep Your Email Password?
Some data gathered from travelers going through customs can stay in a Homeland Security database for 75 years.
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Karen Bleier / AFP / Getty A Bot That Identifies 'Toxic' Comments Online
A Google-funded algorithm flags messages that are likely to drive others away from a conversation.
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Dave Einsel / Getty A Stand Against Invasive Phone Searches at the U.S. Border
A senator has joined human-rights groups in opposing warrantless scans of travelers' digital devices.
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Peter Barreras / AP Why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars
Designers use “benevolent deception” to trick users into trusting the system.
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Mandel Ngan / Staff The Risks of Sending Secret Messages in the White House
Communication apps with disappearing text could run afoul of presidential records laws—and might not be as secure as they seem.
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Chris Hondros / Getty A NASA Engineer Was Required to Unlock His Phone at the Border
A U.S.-born scientist was detained at the Houston airport until he gave customs agents the passcode to his work-issued device.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Give Us Your Passwords'
What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts—and turn you away if you don’t comply?
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AP Mapping Countries That Censor the Internet
A new app can test networks around the world for government interference.
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Evan Vucci / AP What Happened to Trump’s Secret Hacking Intel?
New information that the president promised over a month ago never materialized.
