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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...
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...
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...
A Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas
A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source...
A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts
One researcher's discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing's cybersecurity...
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...
Google Will Replace Titan Security Key Over a Bluetooth Flaw
Google will replace any Titan BLE branded security key, after disclosing that a nearby attacker could use it to compromise your accounts...
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...
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...
HTTPS Isn't Always as Secure as It Seems
A surprising number of high-traffic sites have TLS vulnerabilities that are subtle enough for the green padlock to still appear...
On the Trail of the Robocall King
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions...
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...
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...
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...
Russian Hackers Haven't Stopped Probing the US Power Grid
Researchers warn that utilities hackers don't need to cause blackouts to do damage...
A DJI Bug Exposed Drone Photos and User Data
Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September...
The Collateral Damage of Trump's Extreme Declassifications
Trump has the legal right to make public whatever documents he chooses. But he's going to cause untold damage in the process...
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown...
A Graphic Hamas Video Donald Trump Jr. Shared on X Is Actually Real, Research Confirms
A video posted by Donald Trump Jr. showing Hamas militants attacking Israelis was falsely flagged in a Community Note as being years old, thus making X's disinformation problem worse, not better...
International Operation Knocks Notorious REvil Group Offline
Plus: Data theft in Argentina, a Sinclair Broadcast Group hack, and more of the week’s top security news...
Microsoft Keeps Failing to Patch a Critical Windows Bug
For the second time in a month, the company issued an update that doesn't fully address a severe security vulnerability in Windows...
What the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Reveals About Humankind
The document says less about the search for life in the universe, and more about our current cultural climate and distrust of expertise...
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...
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...
VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster
Recent spying attacks against Pulse Secure VPN are just the latest example of a long-simmering cybersecurity meltdown...
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...
Apple Fixes One of the iPhone's Most Pressing Security Risks
By hardening iMessage in iOS 14, the company has effectively cut off what had been an increasingly popular line of attack...
A ‘Bulletproof’ Criminal VPN Was Taken Down in a Global Sting
Plus: Dozens of reporters get hit by an iMessage exploit, continued fallout from the SolarWinds hack, 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...
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...
You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone Again (But Maybe You Shouldn’t)
Apple reintroduced a previously fixed bug in iOS 12.4, which has led to a jailbreak revival...
Radiohead Gets ‘Hacked,’ a T-Mobile/Sprint Hiccup, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet
Even the Central Intelligence Agency has a so-called onion service now...
Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain
Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...
US Hackers' Strike on Russian Trolls Sends a Message—but What Kind?
US Cyber Command's takedown of the Internet Research Agency's network may be more about signaling than immediate effects...
Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used to Be
You were right not to trust hotel and airport Wi-Fi a few years ago. But these days, it's probably fine...
Machine Learning Can Create Fake ‘Master Key’ Fingerprints
Researchers have refined a technique to create so-called DeepMasterPrints: fake fingerprints designed to get past security...
A New System Is Helping Crack Down on Child Sex Abuse Images
There are 150 child sexual abuse laws around the world. Now, metadata is making it easier for countries to work together...
Blurred Satellite Images Make Rebuilding Palestine Harder
Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise...
Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion
This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them...
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here’s how to tidy up...
The 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Has Taken a Dark Turn
Though social networks have pledged to take more concerted action against it, the theory has continued to spread, inspiring a surge of attacks...
Clearview AI's Massive Client List Got Hacked
Clever malware, student surveillance, and more of the week's top security news...
Alleged Russian Hacker Behind $100 Million Evil Corp Indicted
The US is charging Maksim Yakubets over two of the biggest cybertheft campaigns of the last decade, and offers a record reward for information on the case...
On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching You
New research shows that over 2,000 streaming apps track information about your devices—even when you tell them not to...
Finally, a Lightning YubiKey to Kill Password Clutter on Your iPhone
First promised back in January, the first YubiKey for iOS will help cut down on painful password clutter starting ... now...
How a 10-Year-Old Desk Phone Bug Came Back From the Dead
Avaya patched a problem hackers could exploit in phones. But the bad code never went away...