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Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics
Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign...
Researchers Expose a New Vulnerability in Intel's CPUs
The Software Guard eXtension is supposed to protect encryption keys and other sensitive data. But this isn't the first time it's been defeated...
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military...
Shadowserver, an Internet Guardian, Finds a Lifeline
Ten weeks ago, Shadowserver's main source of funding dried up. Now it's back on level footing...
How a Facebook Bug Took Down Spotify, TikTok, and Other Major iOS Apps
Thank a tiny change to a software development kit for widespread crashes Wednesday, including the Spotify and TikTok apps...
GitHub Takes Aim at Open Source Software Vulnerabilities
GitHub Advanced Security will help automatically spot potential security problems in the world's biggest open source platform...
Google Sees State-Sponsored Hackers Ramping Up Coronavirus Attacks
More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report...
Hackers Made the Snoo Smart Bassinet Shake and Play Loud Sounds
The now-patched flaws found in the popular internet-connected baby bed underscore the importance of getting security right...
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...
Conservative News Sites Track You Lots More Than Left-Leaning Ones
One analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies than its left-wing counterpart...
Windows 10 Has a Security Flaw So Severe the NSA Disclosed It
In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack...
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...
TikTok's First Transparency Report Doesn't Tell the Full Story
The app says it didn’t receive any requests for user information from China during the first half of 2019. That might not reassure skeptics...
Hackers Could Use Smart Displays to Spy on Meetings
By exploiting flaws in popular video conferencing hardware from DTEN, attackers can monitor audio, capture slides—and take full control of devices...
Blockchain Developer Gets Busted After Talk in North Korea
Hacker and Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was recently arrested by US authorities for speaking at a conference on blockchain technologies...
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...
The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken
Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences...
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...
Sweden Drops Assange’s Rape Case—But He’s Not Walking Free
The Swedish decision only brings into focus Assange's core conflict with the US government. The post Sweden Drops Assange's Rape Case---But He's Not Walking Free appeared first on WIRED...
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...
Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake
A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor...
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...
US Takedown of Iranian Media Sites Extends a Thorny Precedent
Free speech advocates raised concerns after the Justice Department seized more than 30 domains this week...
Ransomware Hit Another Pipeline Firm—and 70GB of Data Leaked
LineStar Integrity Services was hacked around the same time as Colonial Pipeline, but radical transparency activists have brought the attack to light...
Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs
The company’s investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebook’s own platforms...
With Spectre Still Lurking, Google Looks to Protect the Web
To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work...
How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You
Your emails know more about you than you might think, like when you open them or when you forward them to others. But you can reclaim your privacy...
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...
An Engineer Gets 9 Years for Stealing $10M From Microsoft
The defendant tried—and failed—to use bitcoin to cover his tracks...
The US Sanctions Russians for Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware
The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure...
How Google's Android Keyboard Keeps ‘Smart Replies’ Private
The latest Gboard feature needs to know as much as possible about your digital life to work—but doesn't share that data with Google...
Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads
Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help...
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...
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...
How Spies Snuck Malware Into the Google Play Store—Again and Again
Malicious Android apps from the so-called PhantomLance campaign targeted hundreds of users, and at least two slipped past Google's defenses...
The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
The crypto wars are back in full swing...
Facebook's Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree
A few months ago, the company disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. It only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission...
The Iowa Caucus Meltdown, a Coronavirus Mask Shortage, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Mark Warner Takes on Big Tech and Russian Spies
A former telecoms entrepreneur, the Virginia senator says that saving the industry and democracy might mean blowing up Big Tech as we know it...
Elections Globally Are Under Threat. Here's How to Protect Them
A new report calls for safeguards to reduce the dangers posed by misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation...
An Open Source Effort to Encrypt the Internet of Things
IoT is a security hellscape. One cryptography company has a plan to make it a little bit less so...
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...
Alleged Spy App ToTok Puts Apple in a Bind
Apple and Google both banned ToTok after reports that it was a UAE government surveillance tool. After Google reinstated it, Apple has a hard choice to make...
The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using
While foreign phone carriers are sharing data to stop SIM swap fraud, US carriers are dragging feet...
'Fortnite' Scams Are Even Worse Than You Thought
YouTube videos with millions of views. Nearly 5,000 bogus websites. V-Bucks scammers have gotten out of control...
Google+ Shuts Down Over Breach as Google Offers New Privacy Features
Google got caught hiding a privacy issue affecting 500,000 users on the same day it rolled out privacy protections...
Facebook's Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know
Up to 50 million Facebook users were affected—and possibly 40 million more—when hackers compromised the social network's systems...
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...