A profile of Christopher Soghoian whose “productions follow a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.”
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.
A story of an Antarctic data hack.
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.
Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.
Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.
Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.
A 42,000-word, 3-continent spanning “hacker tourist” account of the laying of the (then) longest wire on earth.
Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.
Once I made my home smart, what would it learn and whom would it tell?
The lives of programmers sent abroad by Pyongyang to make money by any means necessary.
Searching for the world’s most prolific bank robber.
On what lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and what lies ahead.
A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.
An investigation into how “Mr. Putin, a student of martial arts, had turned two institutions at the core of American democracy — political campaigns and independent media — to his own ends.”
Exploring the crime-ridden depths of the internet with Opsec, a former professional hacker.
