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Who’s Responsible for the Gaza Hospital Explosion? Here’s Why It’s Hard to Know What’s Real
A flood of false information, partisan narratives, and weaponized “fact-checking" has obscured efforts to find out who’s responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza...
The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen...
The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
The US Congress is trying to tame the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But senators’ failure to tackle privacy reform is making the task a nightmare...
Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates' location, heartbeats, and more...
SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics
Documents obtained by WIRED show SafeGraph, which sold location data related to Planned Parenthood visits, is now pursuing contracts with the US Air Force...
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...
Criminals Are Using Tiny Devices to Hack and Steal Cars
Apple thwarts NSO’s spyware, the rise of a GPT-4 black market, Russia targets Starlink internet connections, and more...
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war...
AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet
The threat of scammers using voice deepfakes in their cons is real, but researchers say old-school voice-impersonation attacks are still the more pressing concern...
A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn
Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China have been caught using fake profiles to gather information. But the platform’s tools to weed them out only go so far...
Ukraine Suffered More Wiper Malware in 2022 Than Anywhere, Ever
As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs...
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...
The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
A popular military tool during the Cold War, spy balloons have since fallen out of favor—for good reason...
T-Mobile's New Data Breach Shows Its $150 Million Security Investment Isn't Cutting It
The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems...
What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
This type of devastating scheme ensnares victims and takes them for all they’re worth—and the threat is only growing...
The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key
Any multifactor authentication adds protection, but a physical token is the best bet when it really counts...
Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more...
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year...
A US Propaganda Operation Hit Russia and China With Memes
Plus: An Iranian hacking tool steals inboxes, LastPass gets hacked, and a deepfake scammer targets the crypto world...
The Family That Mined the Pentagon's Data for Profit
The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency...
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...
This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed
The Raspberry Pi-powered device can scan for phones around you. If it keeps spotting the same one, it’ll send you an alert...
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...
Apple Just Patched 39 iPhone Security Bugs
Plus: A Google Chrome patch licks the DevilsTongue spyware, Android’s kernel gets a tune-up, and Microsoft fixes 84 flaws...
The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far
From cryptocurrency thefts to intrusions into telecom giants, state-backed attackers have had a field day in the year’s first half...
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...
Conti Leaks Reveal the Ransomware Group’s Links to Russia
Members of the Conti ransomware group may act in Russia’s interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc...
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...
The Next Wave of Log4J Attacks Will Be Brutal
So far, Log4Shell has resulted mostly in cryptomining and a little espionage. The really bad stuff is just around the corner...
The Pentagon Has Set Up a UFO Office
Plus: An Apple lawsuit, a GoDaddy breach, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It
It's time to do something about those photos and videos automatically saving to your camera roll...
This Ballot-Count Livestream Is the Only Thing Worth Watching
Take a deep breath and enjoy democracy at work...
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...
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...
Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Likely Penetrated a US Federal Agency
New clues indicate that APT28 may be behind a mysterious intrusion that US officials disclosed last week...
The Best Chrome Extensions to Prevent Creepy Web Tracking
Ad trackers follow you everywhere online—but it doesn’t have to be that way...
Gen Z Has a Plan to Save the Election—Starting With the Polls
Poll workers, who skew elderly, are in short supply during the pandemic. Meet some of the young people trying to make up the gap...
How Cryptography Lets Down Marginalized Communities
Speaking at a prestigious crypto conference this month, Seny Kamara called on the field to recognize its blind spots—and fix them...
How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices
Social media platforms repeatedly use so-called dark patterns to nudge you toward giving away more of your data...
Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting
The new hardware-based attack, which has targeted machines across Europe, can yield a stream of cash for the attacker...
How Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took Over This Engineer's Inbox
Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago...
How to Switch to Signal and Bring All your Texts With You
Thinking of boosting your SMS security by switching to Signal? These tips make sure your messages come with you—even to a new phone...
How Microsoft Dismantled the Infamous Necurs Botnet
A years-long investigation and global cooperation disrupted one of the biggest botnets ever...