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How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme
The company’s ex-vice president of IT faces 20 years in prison for creating a pay-to-play environment with technology vendors...
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...
The Debate Over How to Encrypt the Internet of Things
So-called lightweight encryption has its place. But some researchers argue that more manufacturers should stick with proven methods...
Congress Still Doesn't Have an Answer for Ransomware
As data hijackers continue to target local governments and hospitals, legislators remain stymied over how best to address the problem...
How Safari and iMessage Have Made iPhones Less Secure
Security researchers say iOS's security woes stem in part from Apple putting too much trust in its own software's code...
Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections
"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner tells WIRED in an exclusive interview...
Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain
Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...
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...
A New Breed of ATM Hackers Gets in Through a Bank’s Network
Innovations in digital payment system attack methods mean the rash of heists isn’t over...
Facebook Exposed Data Again, but This Viral Cat Can Save Lives
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
Mastercard Wades Into Murky Waters With Its New Digital ID
The credit card company has more details about its plan for a decentralized, universal digital ID, but questions remain...
Russia's IRA Targeted Black Americans, Exploiting Racial Tensions
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans...
Why Supply Chain Hacks Are a Cybersecurity Worse Case Scenario
A blockbuster report from Bloomberg says that China has compromised servers used by major US companies. It's a problem that experts have long feared, and still don't know how to resolve...
Cody Wilson Leaves Defense Distributed, But 3-D Printed Guns Roll On
Even after the DIY gunsmith's arrest on sexual assault charges, the fight for and against 3-D printed guns still rages...
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...
An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out...
Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia
Amnezia, a free virtual private network, allows users to set up their own servers, making it harder for Moscow to block this portal to the outside world...
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
Researchers found that tools like OpenAI's GPT-3 helped craft devilishly effective spearphishing messages...
Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem
Vulnerabilities in Signal, Facebook Messenger, Google Duo, and more all point to a pervasive privacy issue...
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 New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You
Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here...
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70 GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists...
2034, Part V: Sailing Into Darkness
“Somewhere in that black hole was the Chinese fleet. She would be expected to find and destroy it.”...
Chrome and Edge Want to Help Solve Your Password Problems
The line between browsers and password managers is blurring...
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...
Now's The Perfect Time to Start Using a Password Manager
Time has no meaning, and we're all stuck in front of screens. You may as well secure your life while you're always online...
Clearview AI's Massive Client List Got Hacked
Clever malware, student surveillance, and more of the week's top security news...
The Long Path out of the Vulnerability Disclosure Dark Ages
Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier since 2003—but not by much...
UN Secretary-General: US-China Tech Split Worse Than Cold War
In an interview with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson, António Guterres says the world's next major conflict will start in cyberspace...
The FBI Wants Apple to Unlock iPhones Again
Snooping Ring employees, Skype contractors, and more of the week's top security news...
Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
Russia can't cut its internet off from the rest of the world yet. But a recent test foreshadowed more censorship and repression to come...
I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's Why You Should Too
Once you realize most things you search for online are boring and obvious, you realize you don't really need Google in your life...
The Brave Browser Extends Its Payouts to iOS
Nearly four years after Brave proposed paying users to surf the web, that vision is finally coming to the iPhone...
Russian Hackers Are Still Targeting the Olympics
Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over...
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...
Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates
You can listen to the OK Computer–era tracks right here...
How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call
All it took to compromise a smartphone was a single phone call over WhatsApp. The user didn't even have to pick up the phone...
The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump
Nancy Pelosi’s comments about impeachment acknowledge a political reality: Nothing the Mueller probe has revealed so far has moved the GOP substantially...
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why...
The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook
The social networking giant confirmed Friday that sites you use Facebook to login to could have been accessed as a result of its massive breach...
What’s Google FLoC? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
There’s a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all...
Ex-CISA Head Chris Krebs: ‘Impeachment Is the Right Mechanism’
In an interview with WIRED, the famously fired DHS official shared insights on election security, disinformation, SolarWinds—and what to do about Trump...
Secret Service Investigates 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud
Ransomware as a service, exposed SMS photos, and more of the week's top security news...
Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops and Phones
Bluetooth scanners are readily available and easy to use—which means that smash-and-grab car break-in might not have been pure chance...
Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess
The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception...
The FCC's Robocall Plan Sounds Awfully Familiar
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a set of rules to combat robocalls. Don't get your hopes up quite yet...
The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies' Hands
How a "secret" hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc...
Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid
Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch...
Why Google Internet Traffic Rerouted Through China and Russia
For two hours Monday, Google internet traffic rerouted through China, Russia, and elsewhere. Here's why...
Signal's "Sealed Sender" Is a Clever New Way to Shield Your Identity
"Sealed sender" gives the leading encrypted messaging app an important boost, hiding metadata around who sent a given message...