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Email Scammers Ditch Wire Transfers for iTunes Gift Cards
Business email compromise attacks are increasingly targeting nonprofits, and bilking them for iTunes gift cards...
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...
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...
Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam
The security researchers used infrared photos and third-party hardware to best Microsoft’s facial-recognition tech...
What Is a Supply Chain Attack?
From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon...
2034, Part I: Peril in the South China Sea
“We've got a ship in duress that hasn't sent out a distress signal. Something doesn't add up.”...
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...
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...
The Weird, Dark History of 8chan and Its Founder Fredrick Brennan
Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption...
Hackers Stole $40 Million From Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange
One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges got hit, as thieves nabbed $40 million of bitcoin—along with two-factor user codes and API tokens...
Huawei's Problem Isn't Chinese Backdoors. It's Buggy Software
A British report finds that Huawei equipment, suspected of including backdoors for China's government, suffers from a lack of "basic engineering competence."...
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...
Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own
The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work...
Why Cops Can Use Face ID to Unlock Your iPhone
For the first publicly documented time, law enforcement has used Face ID to forcibly unlock someone's iPhone. It won't be the last...
Google Gets Serious About Two-Factor Authentication. Good!
The tech giant wants to push its billions of users—and the rest of the industry—to enable multifactor authentication by default...
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...
Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware
The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made...
Twitter Now Has Better Two-Factor Authentication, So Use It
A hacking bounty, right to repair, and more of the week's top security news...
Shh! No Hacking the Census in the Library
Opinion: Millions of folks filling out the 2020 Census on public library computers also are putting themselves at risk...
A Hacking Spree, a Fight for Open Internet, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible
With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship...
Google DLP Makes It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves
Google's Data Loss Prevention tool finds and redacts sensitive data in the cloud. A new user interface makes now makes it more broadly accessible...
How Would NYC's Anti-AirDrop Dick Pic Law Even Work?
The bill's sponsors want cyber flashers to face the same consequences as their offline counterparts, but there are technical and legal hurdles...
DOJ Indicts 2 Iranian Hackers for Harmful SamSam Ransomware
A string of attacks hobbled the city of Atlanta, multiple hospitals, and more. The feds now think they know who did it...
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...
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown...
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened...
Microsoft Will Soon Kill Flash on Windows 10 for Good
Plus: A Peloton data leak, Russian hacker details, and more of the week’s top security news...
How to Log In to Your Devices Without Passwords
You can use your face, fingerprint, or a wearable to get access to your gadgets. It saves you some typing—and makes you feel like a spy...
Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone
Zombie versions of Adobe’s troubled software can still cause problems in systems around the world...
The War Vet, the Dating Site, and the Phone Call From Hell
Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was...
How to Opt Out of the Sites That Sell Your Personal Data
It's much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it's possible...
Russia’s Cozy Bear Hackers Resurface With Clever New Tricks
Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign...
Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act...
A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots
The long-awaited shift from paperless ballots could make elections more secure...
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...
New Scam Apps Take Advantage of iPhone Touch ID
Touch ID is seamless, which makes it great for unlocking your phone—and for App Store scammers...
The US Leans on Private Firms to Expose Foreign Hackers
Opinion: The government needs to step up in calling out cyber-attackers. Otherwise, we risk playing into their hands...
Pentagon Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds
A new report says the Department of Defense "likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity."...
How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Their Victims Up Close
A new indictment details how Russian agents camped outside hotels when remote hacking efforts weren't enough...
The WannaCry Ransomware Has a Link to Suspected North Korean Hackers
A Google researcher has identified a telltale chunk of code shared between the ransomware and malware used by suspected DPRK hackers. The post The WannaCry Ransomware Has a Link to Suspected North Korean Hackers appeared first on WIRED...
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...
The FBI’s Director Compares Ransomware Threat to 9/11
Plus, a Supreme Court decision on a controversial anti-hacking law, a WhatsApp walk-back, and more of the week’s top security news...
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...
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...
Former DOD Head: The US Needs a New Plan to Beat China on AI
In an interview with WIRED, former secretary of defense Ash Carter discussed how to build morality into AI—and make sure other countries do too...
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...