China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender...

Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK

Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it...

SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics

Documents obtained by WIRED show SafeGraph, which sold location data related to Planned Parenthood visits, is now pursuing contracts with the US Air Force...

How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online

Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board...

A Leak Details Apple's Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup

A 500-page document reviewed by WIRED shows that Corellium engaged with several controversial companies, including spyware maker NSO Group...

Facebook Launches 'Privacy Center' to Educate Users on Data Collection and Privacy Options

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to "educate people" about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps. "Privacy Center provid...

Apple Delays Plans to Scan Devices for Child Abuse Images After Privacy Backlash

Apple is temporarily hitting the pause button on its controversial plans to screen users' devices for child sexual abuse material CSAM after receiving sustained blowback over worries that the tool could be weaponized for mass surveillance and erode the privacy of users. "Based on feedback from...

Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans

A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause...

A Controversial Tool Calls Out Vulnerabilities Across the Web

PunkSpider is back, and crawling hundreds of millions of sites for vulnerabilities...

The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree

The agency's approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained...

Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election

Human rights organizations have blamed the Belarusian government for widespread outages...

Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech for One Year

Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, the company is stopping law enforcement from using its most controversial product...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again...

EFF Sues to Repeal Controversial Online Sex Trafficking FOSTA Law

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday announced it is suing to invalidate a recently passed law that is meant to fight online sex trafficking. The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 FOSTA, which was passed 97-2 by Congress in March and signed into law in...

Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip

By Uzair Amir Europe’s leading cyber-security firm Positive Technologies’ security researchers have a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip...

Hacking Team Flash Zero Day Weaponized in Exploit Kits

Handlers for three major exploit kits have managed to utilize in short order a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player uncovered among the 400 Gb of data stolen from Hacking Team. Experts, including French researcher Kafeine and a number of others from security companies, revealed last night...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

Internet freedom : Anonymous Brings Philippines Government Sites Offline

Hacker groups that are against the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Law for its effect on the country's freedom of expression defaced 11 more government websites since 11 p.m. Monday A message which said, "Hacked by M4N1L4 PR1D3, PHILIPPINE CYBER ARMY AND -=TheFamilyPride=-," appeared on the...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks (Born : 4th Oct 2006)

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks Born : 4th Oct 2006 The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and...