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...

How to Export Your Passwords From LastPass

The popular security service is severely limiting its free tier starting March 16. If you’d like to move your passwords to another manager, here’s how...

The Truth About North Korea’s Ultra-Lockdown Against Covid-19

The country has turned inward more than ever, leaving the true impact of the pandemic a mystery...

Trump Still Doesn't Believe Russia Hacked the 2016 Election

Trump has publicly played down Russia’s role in the 2016 election. But even privately, he trusts conspiracy theories more than US intelligence agencies...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity...

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 'Scarily Simple' Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers at Risk

The most straightforward insecurities can sometimes be the riskiest...

Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Spying

A new US indictment against a group of Russian nationals offers a clear example of how, authorities say, a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking...

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know...

They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them...

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...

US Sanctions on Russia Rewrite Cyberespionage's Rules

The US has sent a loud message to Moscow—though what it's saying isn’t exactly clear...

A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits

The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, 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...

The FBI Has Made Over 100 Arrests Related to the Capitol Riot

Plus: A dark web takedown, a bitcoin scam, and more of the week's top security news...

The SolarWinds Investigation Ramps Up

Plus: Covid-19 contact tracing privacy, a Nissan source code leak, and more of the week's top security news...

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...

Robert Mueller's Testimony: What Congress Needs to Know

Here’s what members of Congress should know before they question the former special counsel...

Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals

Investigators from the New York district attorney's office stumbled across dark web drug vendor "sinmed" thanks to suspicious ATM transactions...

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...

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...

When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack...

Backstory: An Alphabet Moon Shot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots...

The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes

It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified...

Don’t Get Your Valentine an Internet-Connected Sex Toy

Mozilla expands its “Privacy Not Included” gift guide to the bedroom: It’s all sexy fun and games until someone hacks a WiFi-enabled butt plug...

The US Didn’t Sign the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace

Corporations have taken the lead over nations on governing the internet: The initiative might not have counted the US as a signatory, but did include Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others...

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...

Forging a Relationship With Tyler Barriss, the Internet’s Most Hated Swatter

Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes...

How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test

If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround...

John Deere Just Cost Farmers Their Right to Repair

The California Farm Bureau has given away the right of farmers to fix their equipment without going through a dealer...

There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764

A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse...

Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage

What you look for online is up to you—just make sure no one else is taking a peek...

Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones

The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly...

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...

Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone

Zombie versions of Adobe’s troubled software can still cause problems in systems around the world...

The Race Is On to Identify and Stop Inauguration Rioters

As tech companies scramble to tackle the extreme far-right, police and law enforcement are encasing Washington, DC, in a ring of steel...

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...

Zoom Security Gets a Boost With Keybase Acquisition

Plus: A GoDaddy breach, a ransomware attack, 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...

China Attacks Hong Kong Protesters With Fake Social Posts

Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches...

How AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to 'Unlock' Millions of Phones

One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees...

A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots

The long-awaited shift from paperless ballots could make elections more secure...

Hackers Stole a Border Agency Database of Traveler Photos

In compromising a Customs and Border Protection subcontractor, hackers make off with photos of travelers and license plates...

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...