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Trump Takes Aim at the 'Open Skies' Cold War Treaty With Russia
The Open Skies treaty has provided invaluable intelligence for its 34 signatory countries. Now Donald Trump reportedly wants out...
A Critical Device Hack, China's Social Credit, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims
To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me...
Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them vulnerable to attack...
Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory...
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."...
How China’s Elite APT10 Hackers Stole the World’s Secrets
A new DOJ indictment outlines how Chinese hackers allegedly compromised data from companies in a dozen countries in a single intrusion...
Hacking Diplomatic Cables Is Expected. Exposing Them Is Not
Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered...
Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy
Australia has passed a law that would require companies to weaken their encryption, a move that could reverberate globally...
Midterm Elections 2018: Voting Machine Meltdowns Are Normal—That’s the Problem
Americans watched their voting technology break down right in front of their eyes—or on social media—Tuesday, but it's too soon to tell if the problems reached historic proportions...
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs...
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations...
Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy
Registered Agents Inc. has for years allowed businesses to register under a cloak of anonymity. A WIRED investigation reveals that its secretive founder has taken the practice to an extreme...
The Latest Pro-Trump Twitter Clone Leaks User Data on Day 1
Plus: A failed takedown in Russia, details on an FBI-sting encrypted phone, and more of the week's top security news...
7 Cybersecurity Threats That Can Sneak Up on You
From rogue USB sticks to Chrome extensions gone wild, here is a quick guide to some basic risks you should look out for...
OpenAI Said Its Code Was Risky. Two Grads Re-Created It Anyway
The artificial intelligence lab cofounded by Elon Musk said its software could too easily be adapted to crank out fake news...
Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now?
In an interview with WIRED, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains his decision to stop protecting 8chan—and where the notorious forum goes from here...
The Wrong Way to Talk About the El Paso Shooter's Manifesto
The more oxygen these manifestos get, the wider their messages spread. And no one understands that better than the people posting them...
Facebook Won't Stop Being Sketchy, and More Security News This Week
Plus: Mar-a-Lago mishaps, Airbnb's creepy camera problem, tax-season phishing scams, and more...
The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free...
What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us
The special counsel's indictments have so far stopped short of tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in...
The Safest Way to Store and Share Your Nudes
Listen, if you’re going to take them, follow these precautions so they don’t go anywhere you don’t intend them to...
Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Had 500M Users' Data Scraped
Plus: A bad Zoom bug, a billion-dollar cocaine bust, and more of the week's top security news...
Cops Take Down the ‘World’s Biggest' Video Game Cheat Ring
Plus: North Korean hackers, a rogue tweet, and more of the week's top security news...
Hackers Accessed Security Cameras Inside Tesla and Beyond
Plus: A Molson-Coors hack, Github controversy, and more of the week's top security news...
A Hacker Found a Way to Take Over Any Apple Webcam
The Safari vulnerabilities have been patched, but they would have given an alarming amount of access...
Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years
Mark Zuckerberg promised default end-to-end encryption throughout Facebook's platforms. Nearly a year later, Messenger's not even close...
Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack...
How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn't
Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won't make you as invisible as it might sound...
Trump’s Ukraine Mess Feels a Little Too Familiar
The unfolding drama ties two key threads of the Trump era: foreign interference in US elections and the president's distrust of his own intel agencies...
A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts
One researcher's discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing's cybersecurity...
Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts
A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t...
Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records
A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers...
Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware
Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow...
Want Apple Card’s Security Benefits? Just Use Apple Pay
Apple says Apple Card offers "a new level" of security, but nearly all those protections are already available if you use Apple Pay...
Michael Cohen's House Testimony: 5 Key Takeaways from the Prepared Statement
Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight committee tells a new story about Trump and Russia...
1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018
And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League...
What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet
State media has reported that Russia will attempt to disconnect from the global internet this spring. That's going to be tricky...
Tor Is Easier Than Ever. Time to Give It a Try
Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever...
How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election...
Sue Gordon: Silicon Valley Should Work With the Government
In an expansive on-the-record interview with WIRED, the principal deputy director of national intelligence made her pitch for public-private partnerships...
A 'Scarily Simple' Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers at Risk
The most straightforward insecurities can sometimes be the riskiest...
All the New Privacy Features Coming to iOS and macOS
Improvements designed to keep your email private, crack down on data stealing apps, and help you find lost devices are on their way...
McAfee Is Indicted for Altcoin Pump-and-Dumps and ICO Schemes
The 75-year-old antivirus entrepreneur faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted...
The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer Than Ever to Midnight
Since the advent of the clock—even during the peak years of the Cold War—the minute hand has never advanced past the 11:58 mark...
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters
The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications...
What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its front...
Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
Smart TVs continue to look dumber by the day...