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Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance\!
Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids...
Trump's Ukraine Delusion, Tesla's Ford Showdown, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Scammers Are Exploiting a Firefox Bug to Freeze Your Browser
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out...
After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists...
Privacy Law Showdown Between Congress and Tech Looms in 2019
Lawmakers spend the better part of 2018 talking tough to tech companies. Now the pressure is on for Congress to act...
5 New Nonlethal Weapons the Defense Department Is Developing
The US Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program is testing a new arsenal powered by lasers, plasma, chemical irritants, and more...
Midterms 2018: The Unprecedented Effort to Secure Election Day
Ninety-four district election officers. Thirteen hundred electoral jurisdictions. Multiple law enforcement agencies. The fight to keep the midterms safe has an unimaginable scope...
A Good Password Law, Hardware Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week...
How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones
Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia...
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...
Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public...
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online...
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back...
Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance
A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors...
The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale...
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data...
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street...
Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry
AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media...
He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet's most violent groups...
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers...
Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms...
CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI
In its plans to implement a White House executive order, CISA aims to strike a balance between promoting AI adoption for national security and defending against its malicious use...
Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike
Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack...
Security News This Week: The Cloud Company at the Center of a Global Hacking Spree
Plus: A framework for encrypting social media, Russia-backed hacking through Microsoft Teams, and the Bitfinex Crypto Couple pleads guilty...
How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare
Once praised for its generous social safety net, the country now collects troves of data on welfare claimants...
Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever
Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling...
Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants
Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week's top security news...
A $320 Million Crypto Hack Sends the DeFi World Reeling
Plus: News Corp gets hacked, UK snacks ransomware, and more of the week's top security news...
The T-Mobile Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be
The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web...
A New Tool Wants to Save Open Source from Supply Chain Hacks
Sigstore will make code signing free and easy for software developers, providing an important first line of defense...
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations...
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...
The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud
Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument...
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
An AI tool that “removes” items of clothing from photos has targeted more than 100,000 women, some of whom appear to be under the age of 18...
A Trickbot Assault Shows US Military Hackers' Growing Reach
Despite the operation's short-term effects, it sets new precedents for the scope of Cyber Command's mission...
The Wayback Machine and Cloudflare Want to Backstop the Web
The Internet Archive and the infrastructure company are teaming up to make sure sites never fully go down...
Julian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition
The argument hinges in part on psychiatrists’ testimony that Assange is a high suicide risk...
How the US Can Prevent the Next 'Cyber 9/11'
In an interview with WIRED, former national intelligence official Sue Gordon discusses Russian election interference and other digital threats to democracy...
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...
The FBI Backs Down Against Apple—Again
The agency cracked the Pensacola iPhones, but it still views Cupertino as a problem—even though it's easier to break into iPhones than it has been in years...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Reveals Ransomware's Long Game
Hackers laid the groundwork months ago for attacks. Now they're flipping the switch...
Hackers Target Oil Companies as Prices Plunge
The sophisticated spear-phishing campaign hit as energy companies planned their response to falling crude prices...
A Cheap 3D Printer Can Trick Smartphone Fingerprint Locks
With a budget of just $2,000, researchers could fool biometric scanners 80 percent of the time...
Google Removes Adware-Laced Kids' Apps From Play Store
After over a million downloads, the Tekya-infected Android offerings are finally on ice...
The Internet Avoided a Minor Disaster Last Week
A tiny backend bug at Let’s Encrypt almost broke millions of websites. A five-day scramble ensured it didn’t...
North Korea Is Recycling Mac Malware. That's Not the Worst Part
Lazarus Group hackers have long plagued the internet—using at least one tool they picked up just by looking around online...
This Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete
Your digital self is fragmented and owned by third parties. Kaliya Young has a plan to change that—and make tech fairer for all...
A Handy Chrome Feature, a Sonos Update Warning, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...