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The Last Hour Before Yevgeny Prigozhin's Plane Crash
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Social Media and Mental Health
Here’s what the science really says about teens and screens—and how to start the conversation with young people of any age...
China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks...
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...
How ChatGPT—and Bots Like It—Can Spread Malware
Generative AI is a tool, which means it can be used by cybercriminals, too. Here’s how to protect yourself...
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...
Congressman Darin LaHood Says FBI Targeted Him With Unlawful 'Backdoor' Searches
Representative Darin LaHood's claim that he was the subject of “backdoor” searches comes at a dicey moment for the bureau...
Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone...
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
Accidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer's next moves. But restrictions on account sharing are still coming soon...
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...
Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy
A new US State Department assessment highlights the stark economic toll of Tehran’s recent shutdowns and platform control...
Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
The company, which works with hundreds of startups, said it detected unauthorized access to personal data, including Social Security numbers...
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...
It’s Time to Get Real About TikTok’s Risks
US lawmakers keep warning about the popular app. But until they can explain what makes it uniquely dangerous, it’s difficult to tailor a resolution...
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...
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...
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...
Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
Intelligence collected from public information online could be impacting traditional warfare and altering the calculus between large and small powers...
How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Facebook
You don't want just anyone in your inbox. Here's how to take control...
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...
How One Company Helps Keep Russia’s TV Propaganda Machine Online
Russia is using satellites controlled by French operator Eutelsat to broadcast state-run programming. A grassroots group is pushing for that to stop...
AMD Gave Google Cloud Rare Access to Its Tech to Hunt Chip Flaws
By working together, the companies say they’re better able to find security flaws in Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing infrastructure...
Small Drones Are Giving Ukraine an Unprecedented Edge
From surveillance to search-and-rescue, consumer drones are having an unprecedented impact on Ukraine’s defense against Russia...
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 Workaday Life of the World’s Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside the Conti ransomware group. This is what they reveal...
A Major Internet Backbone Company Cuts Off Russia
Plus: A ransomware gang leak, an Nvidia hack, and more of the week's top security news...
The Alt-Right on Facebook Are Hijacking Canada’s Trucker Blockade
In Ottawa, a protest against vaccine mandates has become an international sensation. American far-right personalities are behind its online rise...
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...
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...
A Teen Took Control of Teslas by Hacking a Third-Party App
Plus: Open source sabotage, Ukrainian website hacks, and more of the week's top security news...
The Worst Hacks of 2021
It was a year of ransomware, surveillance, data breaches, and yes, more ransomware...
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...
DuckDuckGo Wants to Stop Apps From Tracking You on Android
The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone...
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...
Hackers Targeted Hong Kong Apple Devices in Widespread Attack
Visitors to pro-democracy and media sites in the region were infected with malware that could download files, steal data, and more...
1.8 TB of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage Leaks Online
DDoSecrets published the trove Friday afternoon. Privacy advocates say it shows how pervasive law enforcement's eye has become, and how lax its data protection can be...
A Telegram Bot Told Iranian Hackers When They Got a Hit
APT35 may not be the most dangerous group out there, but they've got a new phishing trick...
Former US Intelligence Operatives Admit They Hacked for UAE
Plus: Remote learning spyware, an AT bribery scandal, and more of the week's top security news...
What Apple Can Do Next to Fight Child Sexual Abuse
The fallout from the company's recent proposal has created a new opportunity to fix how it roots out abusive material across its devices...
Hackers Stole Over $90M From Japan's Liquid Crypto Exchange
Plus: An Apple informant, a Census Bureau hack, and more of the week's top security news...
The Strangest Election Scenario Runs Through Georgia
There’s a small but real possibility that we won’t know which party controls the Senate until 2021, thanks to a special election and a unique state requirement...
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...
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...