SolarWinds hackers set up phony media outlets to trick targets New infrastructure, old tricks. May 3, 2022 By Tonya Riley
A sign is posted on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on April 27, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Twitter may have given user’s private data to a ransomware hacker, who then ran a researcher offline If true, it's just the latest example of phony data requests used for illicit purposes. May 2, 2022 By AJ Vicens
The government’s annual transparency report disclosing the warrantless data searches began in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures of the government spying on Americans. Snowden is pictured here at a November 2019 event in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Spy report: 3.4M warrantless searches of US data under FISA last year The 3.4 million searches the ODNI disclosed Friday represent a significant increase from last year. May 2, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley