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The Daily Dot

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

UK airport confirms seizure of Flipper Zero from passenger's handbag

Flipper Zero

Airport seizes of Flipper Zero from passenger’s luggage over security concerns

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

TikToker shares spice packet hack to save money

Custom Spice Mix

‘I never had taco seasoning. Then I found this’: TikToker shares spice packet hack to save money on Old Bay, Lowry’s Seasoned Salt, and more

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EXCLUSIVE: Hacking tool Flipper Zero tracked by intelligence agencies, which fear white nationalists may deploy it against power grid

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Nickelodeon says viral data leak is old content, refuses to discuss DCMA claims

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid is a journalist and commentator. He’s the Pakistan correspondent for The Diplomat. His work has been featured in Guardian, Independent, Foreign Policy, BBC, Spectator, Haaretz, Arab News, Daily Beast, Courrier International, Le Monde, Charlie Hebdo, Vox, MIT Technology Review, among other publications

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

soccer player holding FIFA WORLD CUP Qat_ar 2022 with glitches

Fifa Qatar hack

Inside Qatar’s hacking campaign to silence digital dissidents before the World Cup

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anti vax dating site

EXCLUSIVE: Anti-vax dating site that let people advertise ‘mRNA FREE’ semen left all its user data exposed

did anonymous really hack period tracking apps to delete user data

Don’t buy the viral claim that Anonymous deleted tracking data from period-tracking apps

All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company building (l) Blue locks with an open red lock symbolizing a breach or hack (r)

russia television and radio hacked

Hackers steal 900K emails from Russia’s largest state-owned media corporation

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GiveSendGo hit with yet another data breach as more donors’ personal info exposed

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Founder for ‘Adopt a Trucker’ campaign has emails leaked by hacker

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Donation site used by Freedom Convoy suffers 3rd data leak in two weeks

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Sensitive user data on popular ‘Freedom Convoy’ donation site still available, despite alleged fix

A hand holding a cell phone in front of a photo of Donald Trump.

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The beta for Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ gets located online yet again

A defacement by an alleged Turkish hacker on the WikiLeaks webstore

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Alleged Turkish hacker defaces WikiLeaks’ online store

Grace Ferguson is a former public records intern for the Daily Dot. She has covered local news in the Boston area, and her political reporting for the Washington, D.C., bureau of Gray TV has appeared on local TV stations across the country.

Grace Ferguson

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Schools across the nation are getting hit with ransomware attacks—but they won’t admit how much it’s costing them

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