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The 23andMe User Data Leak May Be Far Worse Than Believed
Plus: IT workers secretly funnel money to North Korea, a court in the US upholds keyword search warrants, and WhatsApp gets a passwordless upgrade on Android...
How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come...
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods...
Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
Cyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover...
Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
The CEO’s vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a day care center...
Why The Chainsmokers Invest in—and Party With—Niche Cybersecurity Companies
Musician Alex Pall spoke with WIRED about his VC firm, the importance of raising cybersecurity awareness in a rapidly digitizing world, and his surprise that hackers know how to go hard...
ChatGPT Has a Plug-In Problem
Third-party plug-ins boost ChatGPT’s capabilities. But security researchers say they add an extra layer of risk...
Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music...
Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser
Mullvad Browser, a collaboration between the nonprofit and Mullvad VPN, offers an anti-tracking browser designed to be used with a VPN...
The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army
Amid ongoing protests, the Iranian regime has lost control of its image, pushing it to employ increasingly drastic tactics where everyone loses...
The East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment Created a Perfect TikTok Storm
The social media platform helped push the story into the mainstream while also fueling misinformation and conspiracy theories...
Biden’s SOTU: Data Privacy Is Now a Must-Hit US State of the Union Topic
Biden’s speech proves that protecting personal info is no longer a fringe issue. Now, Congress just needs to do something about it...
Russia’s Cyberwar Foreshadowed Deadly Attacks on Civilians
The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine is following a dangerous playbook that began to unfold years ago...
Zoom’s Auto-Update Feature Came With Hidden Risks on Mac
The popular video meeting app makes it easy to keep the software up to date—but it also introduced vulnerabilities...
The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption
Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more...
WatchGuard Didn't Explicitly Disclose a Flaw Exploited by Hackers
The security vendor kept a critical vulnerability in its firewall appliances quiet even as it was under attack from a Russian hacking group...
NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones
The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been...
Cloudflare Isn't Liable for Sites That Hawk Counterfeits
A federal judge ruled that the content-delivery service doesn't "contribute" to copyright infringement...
Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...
Why James Bond Doesn’t Use an iPhone
The fictional superspy wields Nokia devices in 'No Time To Die.' It’s an odd choice, but Apple's smartphones aren’t ideal, either...
ProtonMail Amends Its Policy After Giving Up Activist’s Data
The email service says it was unable to appeal a Swiss court’s demand to log the IP address of a French climate advocate...
Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans
A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause...
Apple Says It's Time to Digitize Your ID, Ready or Not
Digital driver’s licenses have had a slow start in the US so far, but iOS 15 Wallet will give the nascent technology a serious push...
Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’
As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution...
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again...
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled the 2016 campaign...
Porn Sites Still Won’t Take Down Nonconsensual Deepfakes
The videos are racking up millions of views. Meanwhile, for victims, the legal options aren’t keeping up with the technology...
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers
FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe...
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions...
How to Spot—and Avoid—Dark Patterns on the Web
You've seen them before: the UX ploys designed to trick you into spending money, or make it nearly impossible to unsubscribe. Here's what to look out for...
How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder...
Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old ‘Wormable’ Bug
The SigRed vulnerability exists in Windows DNS, used by practically every small and medium-sized organization in the world...
Microsoft Halts a Global Fraud Campaign That Targeted CEOs
A sophisticated scheme was designed to trick businesses in more than 60 countries into wiring large sums of money to attackers...
How to Passcode-Lock Any App on Your Phone
Letting someone see your phone shouldn't also mean letting them snoop on your texts, photos, or emails. Here's how to stop it from happening...
Julian Assange Faces New Conspiracy Allegations
Plus: Evil Corp hacking, an anti-encryption bill, and more of the week's top security news...
An Embattled Group of Leakers Picks Up the WikiLeaks Mantle
After releasing over a million hacked law enforcement files, DDoSecrets got banned from Twitter. But it has no plans to slow down...
A Report Blames ‘CIA Failures’ for the Agency's Worst Hack
A series of WikiLeaks disclosures that exposed a trove of the intelligence organization's secrets could have been avoided, a task force found...
How To Stop Instagram From Tracking Everything You Do
Though the Facebook-owned app doesn't give users complete control, there are ways to limit the data it collects and the types of ads you see...
The Police's Military Tactics Turn Peaceful Protests Violent
Research shows that calm and negotiation, not excessive force, reduces damage. So why are officers still turning to tear gas?...
A Vital Hack Could Turn Medical Devices Into Ventilators
Hundreds of thousands of lower-grade breathing devices are going unused because manufacturers say they can’t perform life-saving functions. But a new patch might change that...
After the Iowa Caucus Meltdown, New Hampshire Says It’s Ready
The nation’s first primary is proudly low-tech, but it'll take more than paper ballots to defuse the disinformation threat...
Did Donald Trump and Iran Use Twitter to Prevent a War?
Tweets from US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Tuesday offered a fascinating glimpse at how world leaders can communicate more quickly and directly than ever in times of crisis...
Facebook Revamps Its Privacy Checkup Feature in Time for CES
Forget Portal. This year, Facebook is marketing itself as a privacy crusader...
14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed
When you dig into the Mueller report, a lot of important details start to jump out...
Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a 'Useful Idiot'
The special counsel's report exposes the extent to which not just Russia but Donald Trump's own associates grifted the president...
How the US Halted China’s Cybertheft—Using a Chinese Spy
For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here's the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while...
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech...
A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones
The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions...
How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies
A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus...
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”...