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'Kill Chain': HBO's Election Security Doc Stresses Urgency
A new documentary makes crystal clear how little time remains to protect the 2020 election...
Russia Is Learning How to Bypass Facebook's Disinfo Defenses
Social media platforms have stepped up the fight against Russia's Internet Research Agency—but the IRA is evolving too...
Nintendo Cracks Down After High-Profile Leaks
With the highly anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons and E3 on the horizon, Nintendo has become “increasingly aggressive” combating leaks over the last couple of months...
Google's Giving Out Security Keys to Help Protect Campaigns
Candidates can also get trained up on how to use Advanced Protection to keep their accounts safe...
Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk
Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more...
Cloudflare Launches Its Security-Focused Mobile VPN, Again
When the company first launched the Warp VPN, “all hell broke loose,” its CEO says. After a few months of tinkering, Cloudflare wants a do-over...
A Second Life for the 'Do Not Track' Setting—With Teeth
In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to play in enforcing privacy regulations...
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”...
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be...
Password Managers Share a Hidden Weakness
Plus: The cybersecurity community grapples with Epstein files revelations, the US State Department plans an online anti-censorship “portal” for the world, and more...
ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere...
The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy
Following the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican is preparing to organize a new conclave in less than 20 days. This is how they’ll tamp down on leaks...
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online...
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune...
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime...
Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack
New research reveals the strategies hackers use to hide their malware distribution system, and companies are rushing to release mitigations for the “Downfall” processor vulnerability on Intel chips...
The Third-Party Okta Hack Leaves Customers Scrambling
Authentication firm Okta's statements on the Lapsus$ breach fails to answer key questions...
He Escaped the Dark Web's Biggest Bust. Now He's Back
DeSnake apparently eluded the DOJ's takedown of AlphaBay. The admin talked to WIRED about his return—and the resurrection of the notorious underground marketplace...
What It'll Take to Get Power Back in New Orleans After Ida
It could take weeks to get the lights on in parts of Louisiana, but the playbook on how to do it is clear...
The Everyday IT Tools That Can Offer ‘God Mode’ to Hackers
Attackers are increasingly attuned to the power and potential of remote management software...
Windows 11's Security Push Leaves Scores of PCs Behind
The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft’s next operating system will leave plenty of PCs stranded...
John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison After Extradition Order
The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old...
The FBI's Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate
The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.”...
As Chips Shrink, Rowhammer Attacks Get Harder to Stop
A full fix for the “Half-Double” technique will require rethinking how memory semiconductors are designed...
100M More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won’t Be the Last
The Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications...
A Facebook Messenger Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Listen In
The vulnerability was found through the company's bug bounty program, now in its tenth year...
Telegram Still Hasn’t Removed an AI Bot That’s Abusing Women
A deepfake bot has been generating explicit, non-consensual images on the platform. The researchers who found it say their warnings have been ignored...
Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
You can lock down your meetings like never before—even if you have to give up a few features to do so...
The Man Who Speaks Softly—and Commands a Big Cyber Army
Meet General Paul Nakasone. He reined in chaos at the NSA and taught the US military how to launch pervasive cyberattacks. And he did it all without you noticing...
ShinyHunters Is a Hacking Group on a Data Breach Spree
In the first two weeks of May, they've hit the dark web, hawking 200 million stolen records from over a dozen companies...
WhatsApp Is at the Center of Coronavirus Response
The World Health Organization is partnering with the messaging app to help ensure trustworthy information gets out...
Coronavirus Sets the Stage for Hacking Mayhem
As more people work from home and anxiety mounts, expect cyberattacks of all sorts to take advantage...
The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19
Google and Facebook are discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic...
Mysterious New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems
EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so...
Space Force's Rough Launch, Oversight for Facebook, and More News
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How Tweets Could Prevent War, an App Store Dilemma, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Tainted Data Can Teach Algorithms the Wrong Lessons
Researchers show how AI programs can be sabotaged by even subtle tweaks to the data used to train them...
The Internet’s Horrifying Way to Get Google Apps on Huawei Phones
Just make a Chinese website your device's remote administrator. It'll be fine\!...
Red Flag Laws Are Red Herrings of Gun Control
Opinion: There’s little data on the effectiveness of mental health reporting laws to prevent mass shootings...
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations
The investigation into Russian interference and Donald Trump has sprung so many offshoots, it's hard to keep track. Here's a comprehensive list. It's long...
China's Five Steps for Recruiting Spies in the US
A series of high-profile cases involving alleged Chinese recruits shows how the country identifies and develops potential spies stateside...
The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Real Amateur Mistakes
Researchers say the worst ransomware epidemic ever is also poorly run, shoddily coded, and barely profitable. The post The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Real Amateur Mistakes appeared first on WIRED...
Don’t Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet
There are clues that the Kremlin hacked the French presidential candidate. But not yet enough to draw a conclusion. The post Don't Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet appeared first on WIRED...
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do...
A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users...
The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away...
Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm
Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris’ cyber division, has pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing trade secrets and selling them to an unnamed Russian software broker...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender...