Privacy
Security Roundup
NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree
Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.
Dhruv Mehrotra and Andrew Couts
Security Roundup
Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online
Matt Burgess
Check Your Settings
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman
Security Roundup
End-to-End Encrypted Texts Between Android and iPhone Are Coming
Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra
Fourth Amendment
Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program
Dell Cameron
High Exposure
Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts
Anna Wolfe and Sarah Cammarata
Security Roundup
$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever
Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman
Surveillance Economy
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Not Now, Putin
A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
Andy Greenberg
Worldwide Web
The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel
Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra
Basic Problems
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess
Collective Action
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman