3529 matches found
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...
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...
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...
The Weird Partisan Math of Vote-by-Mail
Research says that expanding mail-in voting doesn’t help Democrats. So why are Republicans so afraid of it?...
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...
This Map Shows the Global Spread of Zero-Day Hacking Techniques
The collection of countries using those secret hacking techniques has expanded far beyond the usual suspects...
Google Removes Adware-Laced Kids' Apps From Play Store
After over a million downloads, the Tekya-infected Android offerings are finally on ice...
High-Stakes Security Setups Are Making Remote Work Impossible
Staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more often don’t have the option to work from home, even in light of Covid-19...
The US Blames Russia's GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia
By calling out Russia for digital assaults on its neighboring country, the US hopes to head off similar efforts at home...
Hundreds of Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data
A researcher discovered that hundreds of extensions in the Web Store were part of a long-running malvertising and ad-fraud scheme...
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...
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...
How to Watch Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial
The Senate gets set to debate the rules for Trump’s trial today. Tomorrow, the opening arguments begin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains
You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...
A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who's generating your cryptocurrency keys...
DARPA's Hail Mary Plan to Restart a Hacked US Electric Grid
On tiny Plum Island, DARPA stages a real-life blackout to put its grid recovery tools to the test...
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...
Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women...
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab...
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found...
World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot
From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what’s real and what’s not?...
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking...
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more...
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more...
Florida Man Enters the Encryption Wars
Plus: A US judge rules against police cell phone “tower dumps,” China names alleged NSA agents it says were involved in cyberattacks, and Customs and Border Protection reveals its social media spying tools...
Zero-Click Flaw Exposes Potentially Millions of Popular Storage Devices to Attack
A vulnerability categorized as “critical” in a photo app installed by default on Synology network-attached storage devices could give attackers the ability to steal data and worse...
First Israel’s Exploding Pagers Maimed and Killed. Now Comes the Paranoia
The explosion of thousands of rigged pagers and walkie-talkies will likely make Hezbollah operatives fear any means of electronic communication. It’s having the same effect on the Lebanese population...
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...
Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers
A coalition of digital rights groups is demanding the US declassify records that would clarify just how expansive a major surveillance program really is...
The UN Hired an AI Company to Untangle the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis
CulturePulse's AI model promises to create a realistic virtual simulation of every Israeli and Palestinian citizen. But don't roll your eyes: It's already been put to the test in other conflict zones...
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...
Millions of WordPress Sites Got a Forced Update for a Serious Bug
The mandatory patch addressed a critical vulnerability in a widely used plugin that allowed untrusted visitors to download a website's backups...
BrakTooth Flaws Affect Billions of Bluetooth Devices
Plus: A spyware ban, a big WhatsApp fine, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him...
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With Cryptocurrency
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals...
The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country
Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring...
One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More Privacy
Ballot measures were approved in California to restrict commercial use of user data and in Michigan to require warrants for searches of electronic information...
12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election
From targeted misinformation to manipulated data, these are the cybersecurity concerns election officials worry about most...
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 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...
Trump Pushed 11 False Claims About Voting in 8 Minutes During the Debate
The president’s assault on electoral integrity threatens to undermine the democratic process. We unpack each falsehood, mischaracterization, and lie...
Julian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition
The argument hinges in part on psychiatrists’ testimony that Assange is a high suicide risk...