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It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Go ahead, give them the keys to your heart—but anything more could make a cybersecurity mess...
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...
Zoom Upgrades Encryption Keys to What It Promised All Along
Plus: Facebook data on the dark web, Nintendo accounts keep getting hacked, and more of the week's top security news...
Sneaky Zero-Click Attacks Are a Hidden Menace
Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult to detect...
How to Share Files Securely Online: Dropbox, Firefox Send, and More
There's no shortage of options for sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets...
Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived
A company you’ve never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier...
Russia Fails to Stop Alleged Hacker From Facing US Charges
The repercussions over custody and extradition of Aleksei Burkov have set off a geopolitical maelstrom...
A Controversial Plan to Encrypt More of the Internet
The road to routing all Domain Name System lookups through HTTPS is pocked with disagreements over just how much it will help...
Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy
Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops...
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested in Massive Global Sweep
The most sweeping takedown yet of so-called BEC scammers involved arrests in nearly a dozen countries...
Russian Hackers Go From Foothold to Full-On Breach in 19 Minutes
A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours...
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
In 2016, three friends created a botnet that nearly broke the internet. Now, they're helping the feds catch cybercriminals of all stripes...
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest...
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it...
Amazon Echo Dots Store a Wealth of Data—Even After a Reset
Thinking about selling your smart speaker? Be aware that you can't completely delete personal content from the device...
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia. Other Nations Will Take Note
Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow...
Government Demands for Amazon User Data Exploded in 2020
Plus: Smartmatic lawsuits, a fake WhatsApp, and more of the week’s top security news...
Biden Has to Walk a Fine Line When Fighting Disinformation
The president pledged to defend the truth, but how far can he go without impinging Americans’ rights or undermining his cause?...
The FTC Cracks Down on Bot-Wielding Ticket Scalpers
Plus: A security company creeper, Biden’s cyberteam, and the rest of this week’s security news...
Russia's SolarWinds Hack Is a Historic Mess
All the most important stories about the biggest hack in years...
What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging...
So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?
The service's mixed messages have frustrated cryptographers, as the US government and other sensitive organizations increasingly depend on it...
A Windows 10 Vulnerability Was Used to Rickroll the NSA and Github
A researcher demonstrated the attack less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever...
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...
Hackers Find Ways Around a Years-Old Microsoft Outlook Fix
Microsoft patched a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook in 2017. It hasn't slowed hackers down...
Iranian Americans Struggle to Reach Family Amid Internet Blackout
As Iran's countrywide internet shutdown approaches a full week, Iranian Americans are increasingly desperate to connect with friends and relatives...
It's Time to Outsource Your Passwords to an App
Your brain has better things to do than store secure passwords. Get a dedicated password manager to keep your login data synced and secure across all devices...
How a Bitcoin Trail Led to a Massive Dark Web Child-Porn Site Takedown
Federal investigators focused not on offensive hacking efforts or surveilling communications, but on the transactions using cryptocurrency...
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200
A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment...
The Perils of Distracted Fighting
Opinion: Without proper guidelines, smartphones on the battlefield may kill more soldiers than they save...
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...
William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller Report Release
Attorney general William Barr will have tremendous sway over how much of the Mueller report the public can see. Right now, it doesn't look promising...
A Peek Into the Toolkit of the Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers
Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs' intrusions...
The Xiaomi M365 Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop
A hacker can accelerate Xiaomi M365 scooter—or hit the breaks—while a rider is on it...
How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children
Ad hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse...
The US Is the Only Country Where There Are More Guns Than People
The US has the worst rate of gun violence among all developed countries, and still we fail to regulate...
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war...
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly...
Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them...
Millions of Web Camera and Baby Monitor Feeds Are Exposed
A vulnerability in the Kalay platform leaves countless IoT devices susceptible to hackers...
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...
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Vulnerabilities Across the Web
PunkSpider is back, and crawling hundreds of millions of sites for vulnerabilities...
A Bug in the Android Google App Put Privacy at Risk
Plus: Airbnb's safety squad, a fake pharmacy crackdown, and more of the week's top security news...
Hackers Used ‘Mind-Blowing’ Bug to Dodge macOS Safeguards
The vulnerability was patched Monday, but hackers had already used it to spread malware...
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence community about the progress of recent years and the work that remains...
Sites Have a Sneaky New Way to Track You Across the Web
Plus: A LastPass rate change, Clubhouse concerns, and more of the week's top security news...
North Korea Targets—and Dupes—a Slew of Cybersecurity Pros
The sweeping campaign took advantage of the collaborative spirit among researchers, with an unknown number of victims...
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...