Craig Timberg

Pegasus hack reported on iPhones of Human Rights Watch official

Surveillance company NSO Group offered to give representatives of an American mobile security firm “bags of cash” in exchange for access to global cellular networks, according to a whistleblower who has described the encounter in confidential disclosures to the Justice Department.

Withholding technology can be a soft-power weapon to potentially turn a population against its leaders. Yet it also can be costly to the U.S. economy, slow to deliver results and scattershot in its impacts.

Russia moved closer to being cut off from Western Internet sites as its censor and Western businesses adopted new measures to limit what can travel across the Web.

The proposal is seen as a way to avoid blanket restrictions that would affect Web access for average Russians.

Two men were to have opened fire at each other while bullets hit several bystanders.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dismissed Sen. Josh Hawley’s allegations that claimed “an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.”

The methodology behind the examination of data purportedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The kind of forensic examination that security experts conducted on data purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden creates privacy risks, one of the experts says.

Here are key takeaways from the Vulkan Files, which examined a secret trove of more than 5,000 pages of documents that provide a glimpse into how Russia wages cyberattacks, sows disinformation and surveils the internet.