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Hackers Could Up Medication Doses Through Infusion Pump Flaws
It would take a determined hacker to break into the vulnerable B. Braun products, but the impact could be devastating...
Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud
With a new capability to search for illegal material not just in the cloud but on user devices, the company may have opened up a new front in the encryption wars...
Google's Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies Is Crumbling
Regulators in the EU and competitors have raised concerns about the company's proposals to rewrite the rules of online advertising...
Twitch's First Transparency Report Is Here—and Long Overdue
The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place...
What Did I Just Read? A Conversation With the Authors of '2034'
Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis discuss their inspirations, personal experiences, and what keeps them up at night...
Ticketmaster Pays Up for Hacking a Rival Company
Employees admitted to using stolen passwords and URL guessing to access confidential data...
The UK Denies Assange's Extradition, Citing Suicide Risk
The ruling is based not on whether the WikiLeaks founder violated the Espionage Act, but on the implications of subjecting him to the US carceral state...
Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help
The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware...
How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
A report finds 50,000 cases where law enforcement agencies turned to outside firms to bypass the encryption on a mobile device...
The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago
In an interview with WIRED, Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks...
A DHS Official Says He Was Punished for Not Pushing Trump's Agenda
Brian Murphy says he was pressured to alter reports on Russia and white supremacy—and that he was fired for refusing to budge...
9 Apps to Boost Your Phone's Security and Privacy
Android and iOS are getting better about protecting your data and device. But if you're looking for an extra line of defense, these can help...
The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old Zip File
The story of a guy who wouldn't let a few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between him and his cryptocurrency...
How the Alleged Twitter Hackers Got Caught
Bitcoin payments and IP addresses led investigators to two of the alleged perpetrators in just over two weeks...
A Cyberattack on Garmin Disrupted More Than Workouts
A ransomware hit and subsequent outage caused problems in the company’s aviation services, including flight planning and mapping...
A Twitter Hacking Spree Hits Elon Musk, Obama, Apple, and More
An unprecedented “security incident” has rocked Twitter—and scammers are making off with huge amounts of bitcoin...
Hong Kong's Security Law Puts Big Tech at a Crossroads
As China exerts more power over the city, companies like Facebook and Google have stopped handing over data—for now...
Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech for One Year
Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, the company is stopping law enforcement from using its most controversial product...
Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique
Firms like Google and Cloudflare raced to prevent an amplification attack that threatened to take down large portions of the internet with just a few hundred devices...
Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets Can Get Hacked Too
New research shows vulnerabilities in popular cold-storage options that would have revealed their PINs...
Hackers Target Oil Companies as Prices Plunge
The sophisticated spear-phishing campaign hit as energy companies planned their response to falling crude prices...
The Rise and Spread of a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory
From an interview with an obscure Belgian doctor to apparent arson attacks in the UK, the unfounded claim that the pandemic is linked to 5G has spread unlike any other...
The Defense Production Act Won’t Fix America’s N95 Face Mask Shortage
The Trump administration put off using the DPA for weeks. Now it may be too late to help secure N95 masks where they're needed most...
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...
The US Space Force Has a Rough Launch on the Internet
From controversy over camo print to Star Trek comparisons, the new military branch can't buy a break online...
Now Stores Must Tell You How They're Tracking Your Every Move
California's new privacy law has spurred a torrent of online notices. But the law is also forcing changes offline, in traditional stores...
The Mandalorian Is the Only Smart Soldier in the Star Wars Galaxy
It took decades, but the galaxy finally has a tactical and operational genius...
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...
‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan...
How Hackers Slipped by British Airways' Data Defenses
Security researchers have detailed how a criminal hacking gang used just 22 lines of code to steal credit card info from hundreds of thousands of British Airways customers...
Security News This Week: Bug Bounties Pay But Piracy Doesn’t
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn't break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Bug Bounties Pay But Piracy Doesn't appeared first on WIRED...
Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse...
Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War
Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict...
Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks
A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned...
The Underground History of Turla, Russia's Most Ingenious Hacker Group
From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.”...
Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers...
BrakTooth Flaws Affect Billions of Bluetooth Devices
Plus: A spyware ban, a big WhatsApp fine, and more of the week's top security news...
Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Nationwide
New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time...
Signal's Founder Hacked a Notorious Phone-Cracking Device
Plus: App Store scams, an anti-surveillance bill, and more of the week’s top security news...
A Bird-Feed Seller Beat a Chess Master. Then It Got Ugly
Twitch and YouTube chess star Levy Rozman has faced over a week of sustained harassment after calling out an alleged cheater...
Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service...
Feds Indict North Korean Hackers for Years of Heists
The three men are allegedly part of a group that tried to steal $1.3 billion in an extended—and ongoing—cybercrime spree...
The Chrome Update Is Bad for Advertisers, but Good for Google
The world’s most popular browser is about to make it a lot harder for advertisers to track your online activity...
The SolarWinds Hackers Shared Tricks With a Russian Spy Group
Security researchers have found links between the attackers and Turla, a sophisticated team suspected of operating out of Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency...
The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Is Finally Cracked After 51 Years
Amateur and professional cryptographers, including those at the FBI, had been trying to decode the infamous serial killer's message to the media for decades...
Hackers Accessed Covid Vaccine Data Through the EU Regulator
The European Medicines Agency has released limited details about the cyberattack...
A Broken Piece of Internet Backbone Might Finally Get Fixed
Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google...
This Company Uses AI to Outwit Malicious AI
Robust Intelligence is among a crop of companies that offer to protect clients from efforts at deception...
7 Simple Ways to Make Your Android Phone More Secure
Here's how to lock down your data and stop others from snooping on your personal information...
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...