DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.

Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down

After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities.

Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data

Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.