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The Daily Dot

Grace Fowler is freelancer reporter and past summer media fellow with the Daily Dot. She&#8217;s a graduate of Texas State University, where she studied mass communications.

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Man says all his personal information was leaked in a cyber attack—and it may affect you too

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‘This is so scary’: Man says all his personal information was leaked in a cyberattack—it may affect you too

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

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Dangerous Hooded Hacker Breaks into Government Data Servers and Infects Their System with a Virus. His Hideout Place has Dark Atmosphere, Multiple Displays, Cables Everywhere.

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Notorious ransomware gang claims it pulled ‘classified and top secret documents’ from U.S. intelligence agencies

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Major DDoS attack knocks Twitter, Reddit, Spotify offline

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Online voting is a cybersecurity nightmare

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Security researchers say mysterious ‘Lazarus Group’ hacked Sony in 2014

Efe Kerem Sözeri is a Turkish freelance researcher who lives in the Netherlands. After studying political science in Istanbul, he moved to Amsterdam to study migrants&#8217; political behavior. Besides his academic work, he regularly writes on internet freedom and censorship in Turkey.

Cyberattacks

‘This is so scary’: Man says all his personal information was leaked in a cyberattack—it may affect you too

Notorious ransomware gang claims it pulled ‘classified and top secret documents’ from U.S. intelligence agencies

Major DDoS attack knocks Twitter, Reddit, Spotify offline

Online voting is a cybersecurity nightmare

Security researchers say mysterious ‘Lazarus Group’ hacked Sony in 2014

Major ‘Turkish police data dump’ reveals an even bigger scandal

France sees rise in cyberattacks surrounding Paris bombings

This map lets you watch DDoS attacks in real time

How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack

U.S. government hit by up to 200 cyberattacks every day

How Target easily could have kept 40 million credit cards from being stolen

China denies sponsoring hacking attacks against U.S. companies

Report on Chinese cyberattacks gives CISPA a boost