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A Link to News Site Meduza Can (Technically) Land You in Russian Prison
Plus: Hive ransomware gang gets knocked offline, FBI confirms North Korea stole $100 million, and more...
ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing...
Ukraine Enters a Dark New Era of Drone Warfare
A series of deadly attacks using Iranian “suicide drones” shows Russia is shifting gears in the conflict...
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...
All the Data Amazon's Ring Cameras Collect About You
The popular security devices are tracking and sharing more than you might think...
An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression
A Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member marks a significant escalation against the backdrop of US-Iran nuclear talks...
How to Use Microsoft Defender on All Your Devices
If you use a mix of Apple, Android, and Windows gadgets, you're in luck: The security tool is now available to any Microsoft 365 subscriber...
North Korean IT Workers Are Infiltrating Tech Companies
Plus: The Conti ransomware gang shuts down, Canada bans Huawei and ZTE, and more of the week’s top security news...
Spyware Vendors Target Android With Zero-Day Exploits
New research from Google's Threat Analysis Group outlines the risks Android users face from the surveillance-for-hire industry...
Ukraine’s Digital Battle With Russia Isn’t Going as Expected
Even the head of the country's online offensive is surprised by the successes—although they’re not without controversy...
Meta Tries to Break the End-to-End Encryption Deadlock
A new report commissioned by Meta aims to redefine comprehensive encryption as essential to protecting human rights...
The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol
For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived...
The US Watches Warily for Russia-Ukraine Tensions to Spill Over
Conversations with more than a dozen senior cybersecurity leaders in both the public and private sector outline the major areas of risk...
What's the Deal With Anti-Cheat Software in Online Games?
Cheat deterrents like kernel drivers are raising legitimate privacy concerns. But it's not all bad news...
Destructive Hacks Against Ukraine Echo Its Last Cyberwar
A data wiper posing as ransomware bears a discomfiting resemblance to the earlier wave of Russian cyberattacks that ended with NotPetya...
Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World
Security experts say there's little reason for the criticism from Europe’s mobile operators and US limitations over the VPN-like iCloud tool...
Meta Ousts 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms
While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become...
A Year After SolarWinds, Supply Chain Threats Still Loom
The Russia-led campaign was a wake-up call to the industry, but there's no one solution to the threat...
The Pentagon Has Set Up a UFO Office
Plus: An Apple lawsuit, a GoDaddy breach, and more of the week's top security news...
The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
The cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails...
RE:WIRED 2021: Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense
The retired Army officer played offense at the NSA and the Pentagon. Now she's learning to play defense...
Blind People Have Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM—for Now
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent...
New Sex Toy Standards Let Some Sensitive Details Slide
The industry now has official guidance on design, materials, and more, but not security and privacy best practices...
Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
From Afghanistan to cyberattacks, Frank Herbert’s novel anticipated and shaped warfare as we know it...
A Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host
Even the most extreme internet infrastructure providers have turned their backs on the website for violating their terms of service...
The Stealthy iPhone Hacks That Apple Still Can't Stop
After another “zero-click” attack, security experts say it's time for more extreme measures to keep iMessage users safe...
How an Obscure Company Took Down Big Chunks of the Internet
You may not have heard of Fastly, but you felt its impact when sites didn’t load around the world Tuesday morning...
'Where Law Ends' Review: How the Mueller Investigation Fell Flat
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann's Where Law Ends doesn't fill the hole at the center of the Trump-Russia probe, but does help explain why it's there...
Kids' Smartwatches Are a Security Nightmare Despite Years of Warnings
Five out of six brands tested by researchers would have allowed hackers to track kids—and in some cases eavesdrop on them...
A British AI Tool to Predict Violent Crime Is Too Flawed to Use
A government-funded system known as Most Serious Violence was built to predict first offenses but turned out to be wildly inaccurate...
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
IBM’s X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it’s targeting...
Is It Legal for Cops to Force You to Unlock Your Phone?
Because the relevant Supreme Court precedents predate the smartphone era, the courts are divided on how to apply the Fifth Amendment...
Georgia’s Failure Shows How Not to Run an Election in the Pandemic
Limiting in-person polling sites makes it both harder to vote and more dangerous...
Clever Cryptography Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance...
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...
Security Experts Unite Over the Right to Repair
Securepairs.org is pushing back against a tech industry that wants independent repair legislation to be scary...
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...
Everything You Should Do Before You Lose Your Phone
Misplacing your smartphone—or worse, having it stolen—is awful. But you can at least minimize the damage with a few easy steps...
An Obscure App Flaw Creates Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones
Researchers at the University of Michigan expose how an obscure feature of thousands of apps can give hackers remote access into your phone's most sensitive guts. The post An Obscure App Flaw Creates Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones appeared first on WIRED...
Security News This Week: LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again
Plus: Former national security advisor John Bolton pleads guilty in classified-materials case, Microsoft helps take down major infostealer infrastructure, and more...
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations...
We Made Luigi Mangione’s 3D-Printed Gun—and Fired It
In the wake of Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO with a partially 3D-printed pistol, we built and tested the exact same model of weapon ourselves. And it was entirely legal...
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...
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids...
Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks...
Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors...
Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help...
Here Come the AI Worms
Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way...
Notorious Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Quietly Plotting a Comeback
NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is spending millions on lobbying in Washington while taking advantage of the crisis in Gaza to paint itself as essential for global security...
This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy
Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy. Researchers think they’ve found a better balance...