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Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims' Families Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon
The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre...
How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough...
Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts
The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users...
The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’
The breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of “stirring up some drama,” the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse...
A Privacy Hero's Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI's Future
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying out his vision to steer artificial intelligence toward “human flourishing.”...
The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isn’t About Privacy
Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled...
How the US Can Stop Data Brokers' Worst Practices—Right Now
Legal experts say a key law should already prevent brokers from collecting and selling data that’s weaponized against vulnerable people...
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...
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022
From SBF to the GRU, these were the most disruptive forces of online chaos this year...
Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme
Plus: An offensive US hacking operation, swatters hacking Ring cameras, a Netflix password-sharing crackdown, and more...
The Quiet Insurrection the January 6 Committee Missed
A former congressman who helped the House select committee investigate the Capitol attack says the US is losing sight of the big picture...
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...
Celsius Exchange Data Dump Is a Gift to Crypto Sleuths—and Thieves
By releasing half a million users’ transactions in a bankruptcy court filing, the company has opened a vast breach in its users’ financial privacy...
The Twitter Whistleblower Report’s Most Damning Allegation
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s claims about the company’s lax security are all bad. But one clearly captures the extent of systemic issues...
A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years
The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either...
The Microsoft Team Racing to Catch Bugs Before They Happen
What's it like to be responsible for a billion people's digital security? Just ask the company's Morse researchers...
Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial
Roman Sterlingov, accused of laundering $336 million, is proclaiming his innocence—and challenging a key investigative tool...
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...
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Facebook
You don't want just anyone in your inbox. Here's how to take control...
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...
Thousands of Top Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form...
What to Do If You Can’t Log In to Your Google Account
Locked out of your calendar or Gmail? Here’s how to get unstuck—and prevent it from happening in the first place...
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...
The DOJ’s $3.6B Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto
A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work...
Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow...
The Worst Hacks of 2021
It was a year of ransomware, surveillance, data breaches, and yes, more ransomware...
The Pentagon Has Set Up a UFO Office
Plus: An Apple lawsuit, a GoDaddy breach, and more of the week's top security news...
Devious ‘Tardigrade’ Malware Hits Biomanufacturing Facilities
The surprisingly sophisticated attack is “actively spreading” throughout the industry...
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages...
The Sneaky Way TikTok Is Connecting You to Real-Life Friends
The social network got huge by ignoring who you know. That's increasingly no longer the case...
This AI Predicts How Old Children Are. Can It Keep Them Safe?
Yoti’s tech may be enticing for Big Tech companies: It works out if you’re under or over 13, the age most social media platforms require to create an account...
Anonymous Leaked a Bunch of Data From a Right-Wing Web Host
The hacktivist collective targeted the domain registrar Epik for providing services to clients including the Texas GOP, Parler, and 8chan...
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...
Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Spread Under Facebook's Watch
Don’t use an iTunes gift card to purchase doses of the vaccine online...
All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It
From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack...
The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule
The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...
'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...
179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown
Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street Market...
Will WhatsApp’s Misinfo Cure Work for Facebook Messenger?
To protect the election, the platform will limit message forwarding to five people at a time...
A Critical Flaw Is Affecting Thousands of WordPress Sites
Hackers have been exploiting the vulnerability, which is now patched: Users should update to File Manager version 6.9 ASAP...
The FBI Botched Its DNC Hack Warning in 2016—but Says It Won’t Next Time
Facing looming election threats and a ransomware epidemic, the bureau says it has revamped its process for warning hacking victims...
How to Protect the Data on Your Laptop
Your laptop is a treasure trove of personal and sensitive information—make sure it's as secure as it can be...
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...
Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You Think It Does
Every browser has a private mode—but the privacy it offers has a limit...
Facebook and Twitter Want to Keep the Justice System Skewed Against Defendants
Their CEOs have pledged support for reform amid the George Floyd protests—while their lawyers are fighting to preserve law enforcement’s advantage in court...
Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in 'World of Warcraft Classic'
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy...
If Russia Hacked Burisma, Brace for the Leaks to Follow
The Kremlin likely hacked the oil giant. Its next play: selectively release—and even forge—documents. Did the US learn enough from 2016 to ignore them?...
Foreign Trolls Are Targeting Veterans on Facebook
Opinion: The VA needs to take preventative measures to protect vets—and more broadly, our democracy—from digital manipulation and fraud...
Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
University of Washington researchers put sensors in 15 ridesharing cars, and uncovered new evidence of how stingrays are being used and how to detect them. The post Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool appeared first on WIRED...