Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug

Group FaceTime chats let people eavesdrop on whoever they called, a bug so bad that Apple pulled the plug until it comes up with a fix...

‘Vulkan’ Leak Offers a Peek at Russia’s Cyberwar Playbook

Plus: A major new supply chain attack, Biden’s spyware executive order, and a hacking campaign against Exxon’s critics...

The SolarWinds Hackers Used an iOS Flaw to Compromise iPhones

Security researchers say the group exploited a zero-day in Apple’s operating system to target European government officials over LinkedIn...

How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once

More details have come to light as to how the notorious hacking group pulled off its unprecedented attack...

Don’t Buy Into Facebook’s Ad-Tracking Pressure on iOS 14.5

The company tells Apple users that tracking helps keep those platforms “free of charge,” but opting out now doesn't mean paying up later...

The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree

The agency's approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained...

Extremist Charged With Plot to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers

The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent...

The Woman Bulldozing Video Games’ Toughest DRM

For Empress, cracking titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Immortals Fenyx Rising is more than a pastime. It's a mission...

France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree

A French security agency warns that the destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon...

Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw

The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well...

The Top Reason Not to Ditch an iPhone for Android? WhatsApp

It should be simple to transfer your chat history from iOS to Android, but it's really not...

YouTube Gaming's Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated by Scams and Cheats

YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information...

Meet Cliff Stoll, the Mad Scientist Who Invented the Art of Hunting Hackers

Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo's Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon...

Ewoks Are the Most Tactically Advanced Fighting Force in Star Wars

Hate them or love them, the Ewoks have more strategic chops than any military in the Star Wars galaxy...

How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill

Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it's easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent...

Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started

The Internet Research Agency specifically targeted African Americans, and has not stopped trying to influence elections, a Senate intelligence report says...

Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk

Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light...

Cold War Analogies are Warping Tech Policy

Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech...

Everything We Know About the Capital One Hacking Case So Far

A new indictment against alleged Capital One hacker Paige Thompson includes a few fresh details about the case...

Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets from Millions of PCs

Two different groups of researchers found another speculative execution attack that can steal all the data a CPU touches...

Artificial Intelligence May Not 'Hallucinate' After All

What makes an algorithm mistake a helicopter for a gun? Researchers think the answer has to do more with man than machine...

Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now

Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them...

Firefox Send Is an Easy Way to Share Large Files Securely

Mozilla has made public an encrypted file-sharing service with a self-destruct twist...

How the HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone Plans to Secure Your Cryptocurrency

HTC starts filling in the details of its so-called blockchain smartphone, expected to launch later this year...

The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’

NSA Director Michael Rogers provides the first US government confirmation that Russia successfully compromised elements of the French election. The post The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’ appeared first on WIRED...

Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more...

The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools

Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight...

The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting

California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can’t find that option in Safari or iOS...

Cuba’s Social Media Blackout Reflects an Alarming New Normal

In response to mass protests, the country has been blocking social media and communication platforms since Sunday—an increasingly common action worldwide...

GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps

Thousands of would-be investors are joining Discord groups that promise big earnings by manipulating the crypto market...

Palestinian Hackers Tricked Victims to Install iOS Spyware

The groups used social engineering techniques on Facebook to direct targets to a wide range of malware, including custom tools...

A Clubhouse Bug Let People Lurk in Rooms Invisibly

The vulnerabilities opened the door to “ghosts” hiding in and disrupting rooms, where moderators would be unable to mute them...

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers...

‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats

Cloudflare says it’s possible to build a version of the notoriously slow and buggy tool without compromising on speed...

2034, Part II: Blackout in Washington, DC

“So much was happening and yet they had no news. Everything had been compromised.”...

The Biden Administration Will Have Its Hands Full With Russia

After four years of Trump kowtowing to Putin, the US has its work cut out for it...

Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud

Donald Trump has not yet conceded the presidential race, and may not any time soon. But there's no evidence whatsoever of a “stolen” election...

Researchers Found 55 Flaws in Apple's Corporate Network

The company has patched the vulnerabilities and paid the team of white-hat hackers $288,000...

How WeChat Censored the Coronavirus Pandemic

In China, the messaging platform blocked thousands of keywords related to the virus, a new report reveals...

The Feds Want These Teams to Hack a Satellite—From Home

Meet the hackers who, this weekend, will try to commandeer an actual orbiter as part of a Defcon contest hosted by the Air Force and the Defense Digital Service...

No, a Border Wall Won't Stop Coronavirus

Donald Trump's latest pitch for the wall ignores basic science—and might only make things worse...

Gmail Is Catching More Malicious Attachments With Deep Learning

Users of Gmail get 300 billion attachments each week. To separate legitimate documents from harmful ones, Google turned to AI—and it’s working...

The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

The defendants have allegedly connected hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to US residents...

Google Wants to Help Tech Companies Know Less About You

By releasing its homegrown differential privacy tool, Google will make it easier for any company to boost its privacy bona fides...

The Consumer Bureau's Reckless Plan for Debt Collection

Opinion: A CFPB proposal would create a quandary for consumers. Click and risk a computer virus, or don't click and miss a debt payment...

Trump’s Intel Vacancies Put Americans in Danger

Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon...

A Preview of Mueller's Testimony, an Electric Ford F-150, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...

Internal Docs Show How ICE Gets Surveillance Help From Local Cops

Documents obtained by the ACLU show how ICE uses unofficial channels to access billions of license plate location data points—including some sanctuary cities...

Cloudflare Embraces Google Roughtime, Giving Internet Security a Boost

Syncing clocks online is vital to web security...

ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities...