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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...
iOS 14’s Best Privacy Feature? Catching Data-Grabbing Apps
Apple's new operating system hasn't been released to the public yet, but its new permission notifications are already shaming developers into cleaning up their acts...
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...
Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug in Networking Equipment
For companies that haven't patched their BIG-IP products, it may already be too late...
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...
An Alarming Windows Bug, a Triumph for Tesla, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
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...
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...
Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink
With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy...
ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood
Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more...
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...
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border...
How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration...
Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud
Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud...
The Most Dangerous Hackers You’ve Never Heard Of
From crypto kingpins to sophisticated scammers, these are the lesser-known hacking groups that should be on your radar...
Gamaredon: The Turncoat Spies Relentlessly Hacking Ukraine
For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online...
The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real
The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down...
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back at least a little control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more...
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...
Russia’s Most Notorious Special Forces Unit Now Has Its Own Cyber Warfare Team
Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world...
The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats
The US State Department is training diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and other technology issues, allowing them to advance US policy abroad...
A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
Plus: Alleged Apple source code leaks online, cybercrime group Scattered Spider's alleged kingpin gets arrested, and more...
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online...
Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now
Police are using subtle psychological operations against ransomware gangs to sow distrust in their ranks—and trick them into emerging from the shadows...
US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying
Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more...
School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program...
Change Healthcare’s New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse
A cybercriminal gang called RansomHub claims to be selling highly sensitive patient information stolen from Change Healthcare following a ransomware attack by another group in February...
AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect
AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips...
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code...
Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks...
I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great—and a Total Mess
Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet...
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
On Telegram, scammers are impersonating doctors to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates and other products, showing how criminals are taking advantage of conspiracy theories...
Cybersecurity Industry Baffled by FBI’s Lack of Action on Ransomware Gang
Plus: Hackers reveal flaws in crypto wallets holding $1 billion, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more...
Telegram’s Bans on Extremist Channels Aren't Really Bans
A WIRED analysis of more than 100 restricted channels shows these communities remain active, and content shared within them often spreads to channels accessible to the public...
Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
Experts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems...
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Patched Some Spooky Security Flaws
Plus: Major vulnerability fixes are now available for a number of enterprise giants, including Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, and SAP...
Maine Mass Shooting Disinformation Floods Social Media as Suspect Remains at Large
In the hours following the worst mass shooting in Maine’s history, disinformation about the suspected gunman flooded social media with false claims that he had been arrested...
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...
The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
The United Nations' top internet governance body will allegedly host its next two annual meetings in countries known for repressive internet policies and human rights abuses...
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time...
How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions...
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals...
Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member...
New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
The hackers, who mostly targeted victims in Hong Kong, also hijacked Microsoft’s trust model to make their malware harder to detect...
Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR...
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans...