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A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia’s Voter Registration Site
Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week’s top security news...
Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree
Nice looking website you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone DDoS'd it...
Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next
On July 15, a massive Twitter hack rocked the inside and out. On Election Day, that's not an option...
Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere
So-called single sign-on options offer a lot of convenience. But they have downsides that a good old fashioned password manager doesn't...
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s...
The Facebook Defectors Turning Trump’s Strategy Against Him
The platform was key to the president’s upset victory in 2016. Can a group of former employees use it to boost Joe Biden?...
Stacey Abrams on How We’ll Beat Back Voter Suppression
The former Democratic candidate for Georgia governor talks democracy, election tech, and why speaking Klingon doesn’t always help. As told to Gilad Edelman...
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...
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions...
Trump's TikTok Drama Is a Distraction
As the White House zeroes in on a single app, some experts say more pressing issues are going by the wayside...
How to Know If You’ve Been Hacked, and What to Do About It
Facebook. Google. Netflix. Sometimes your accounts get compromised, so it’s vital to understand the threats...
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...
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The videoconferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried...
Games Don't Do Enough to Combat Toxicity at Launch
Riot Games has cutting-edge moderation tools at its disposal. Few of them are present in Valorant, which launched this week...
Facebook 'Manage Activity' Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time...
Online Voting Has Worked So Far. That Doesn’t Mean It's Safe
Proponents of mobile and internet voting point to its uneventful track record. That's not good enough...
The ADL Calls Out Steam for Giving Extremists a Pass
The nonprofit has identified hundreds of profiles that espouse hate, with little attempt from the gaming platform to stop them...
You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures
“Is BGP Safe Yet” is a new site that names and shames internet service providers that don't tend to their routing...
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...
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking
Apps need your explicit permission to access your smartphone's motion and light sensors. Mobile websites? Not so much...
The Series 5 YubiKey Will Help Kill the Password
The latest batch of hardware-based tokens from Yubico will eventually let you skip the password altogether...
US Sanctions Didn’t Stop Russia’s Election Hacking—Or Even Slow It Down
The Fancy Bear group's continued attacks on electoral campaigns shows how easily the Kremlin brushed off Obama's sanctions. The post US Sanctions Didn't Stop Russia's Election Hacking---Or Even Slow It Down appeared first on WIRED...
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars...
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...
The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon
A major cyberattack on the US electrical grid has long worried security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one...
Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin
The elusive boss of the Trickbot and Conti cybercriminal groups has been known only as “Stern.” Now, German law enforcement has published his alleged identity—and it’s a familiar face...
Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years
Now the US director of national intelligence, Gabbard failed to follow basic cybersecurity practices on several of her personal accounts, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal...
The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online...
A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
This year’s Intelligence Authorization Act would mandate penetration testing for federally certified voting machines and allow independent researchers to work on exposing vulnerabilities...
A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure...
‘Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds
The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes...
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Two judges in London have ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US on freedom of speech grounds...
Hackers Linked to Russia’s Military Claim Credit for Sabotaging US Water Utilities
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to...
US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak
More than 4 million school records, including safety procedures, student medical files, and court documents, were also publicly accessible online...
YouTube's Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law
A complaint filed with the EU’s independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive...
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...
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of...
2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains
Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more...
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners...
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...
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...
NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AI
The security issues raised by ChatGPT and similar tech are just beginning to emerge, but Rob Joyce says it’s time to prepare for what comes next...
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...
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...
GitHub Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks
The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code signing, which will help beef up the security of open source projects...
‘Tough to Forge’ Digital Driver’s Licenses Are—Yep—Easy to Forge
Researchers found a litany of security flaws that allow simple, quick, and cheap forgeries in Australia...
This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank Call Russian Officials
To protest the war in Ukraine, WasteRussianTime.today auto-dials Russian government officials, connects them to each other, and lets you listen in to their confusion...
Someone Hacked a US Warship Facebook Account to Stream Games
Plus: Twitch hack fallout, Russian phishing, and more of the week’s top security news...