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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused...
A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering...
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more...
The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios
President Joe Biden has updated the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change...
The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem
One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier...
How Israel Defended Against Iran's Drone and Missile Attack
The Iron Dome, US allies, and long-range interceptor missiles all came into play...
Anne Neuberger, a Top White House Cyber Official, Sees the 'Promise and Peril' in AI
Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber, tells WIRED about emerging cybersecurity threats—and what the US plans to do about them...
Big-Name Targets Push Midnight Blizzard Hacking Spree Back Into the Limelight
Newly disclosed breaches of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise highlight the persistent threat posed by Midnight Blizzard, a notorious Russian cyber-espionage group...
This Is the Ops Manual for the Most Tech-Savvy Animal Liberation Group in the US
For the first time, guerrilla animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere reveals a guide to its investigative tactics and toolkit, from spy cams to night vision and drones...
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...
The Hamas Threat of Hostage Execution Videos Looms Large Over Social Media
Hamas has threatened to broadcast videos of hostage executions. With the war between Israel and Hamas poised to enter a new phase, are social platforms ready?...
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...
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown...
Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
Plus: Apple patches newly discovered flaws exploited by NSO Group spyware, North Korean hackers target security researchers, and more...
Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed...
The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon...
How X Is Suing Its Way Out of Accountability
The social media giant filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. It’s the latest effort to cut off the data needed to expose online platforms’ failings...
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass
The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But a researcher says it has troubling flaws...
US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company's CISO...
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 Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
With a poor track record on tech regulation, do lawmakers stand a chance?...
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications...
There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security
“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they’ve been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution...
Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement...
ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating Apple's App Store and Google Play
An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions...
Hacker Group Names Are Now Absurdly Out of Control
Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?...
The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
Without an information sharing and analysis center, the country’s food and agriculture sector is uniquely vulnerable to hackers...
The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
The White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran...
They Posted Porn on Twitter. German Authorities Called the Cops
Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences...
Senator Warner on the Restrict Act and a US TikTok Ban
WIRED spoke with the coauthor of the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bill to crack down on tech from six “hostile” countries...
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...
A New Kind of Bug Spells Trouble for iOS and macOS Security
Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history...
How to Protect Yourself From Twitter’s 2FA Crackdown
Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication. Switch to these alternatives to keep your account safe...
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...
The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push
Biden’s speech calling for better data protections got a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle. So, where’s a federal privacy law?...
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...
You Really Need to Update Firefox and Android Right Now
January saw a slew of security patches for iOS, Chrome, Windows, and more...
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered...
Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers
Elon Musk claims plane-tracking data is a risky privacy violation. But the world loses a lot if this information disappears—and that's already happening...
Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
New research found pervasive use of tracking tech on substance-abuse-focused health care websites, potentially endangering users in a post-Roe world...
Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems...
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards...
The Rise of Rust, the ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech
Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough...
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...
Your Microsoft Exchange Server Is a Security Liability
Endless vulnerabilities. Massive hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It's time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange...
The Fight to Cut Off the Crypto Fueling Russia's Ukraine Invasion
Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia’s violent militia groups...
The Dire Warnings in the Lapsus$ Hacker Joyride
The fun-loving cybercriminals blamed for breaches of Uber and Rockstar are exposing weaknesses in ways others aren't...
Child Predators Mine Twitch to Prey on Kids
Plus: A leaked trove illuminates Russia’s internet regulator, a report finds Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinian rights, and more...