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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient...
Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
Newly published research finds that the flashing lights on police cruisers and ambulances can cause “digital epileptic seizures” in image-based automated driving systems, potentially risking wrecks...
ICE's $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's contract with Paragon Solutions faces scrutiny over whether it complies with the Biden administration's executive order on spyware, WIRED has learned...
69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the record-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell...
The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more...
Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of ‘Watering Hole’ Attacks
Suspected Russian hackers have compromised a series of websites to utilize sophisticated spyware exploits that are eerily similar to those created by NSO Group and Intellexa...
When War Came to Their Country, They Built a Map
The Telegram channel and website Deep State uses public data and insider intelligence to power its live tracker of Ukraine’s ever-shifting front line...
Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
A hacker group called “NullBulge” says it stole more than a terabyte of Disney’s internal Slack messages and files from nearly 10,000 channels in an apparent protest over AI-generated art...
This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan
The new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century lays out what might actually happen if China were to invade Taiwan in 2028...
How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
In this common email scam, a criminal pretending to be your boss or coworker emails you asking for a favor involving money. Here’s what do to when a bad actor lands in your inbox...
Android Update: Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen
Google is introducing new AI-powered safety tools in Android 15 that can lock down your phone if thieves nab it...
The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto Privacy
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance...
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...
How Israel Defended Against Iran's Drone and Missile Attack
The Iron Dome, US allies, and long-range interceptor missiles all came into play...
The XZ Backdoor: Everything You Need to Know
Details are starting to emerge about a stunning supply chain attack that sent the open source software community reeling...
Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Global Spying Rampage
US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China...
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies
Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online...
Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns...
The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency
Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more...
The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
The UK’s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a person’s location...
The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
Ankle tags that constantly log a person’s coordinates are part of a growing cadre of experimental surveillance tools that countries around the world are trying out on new arrivals...
Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning
The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then a wild Russian threat appeared...
Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update
Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage...
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger’s new feature aimed at addressing critics’ most persistent complaint. Here’s how it works...
A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics...
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea...
To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
Ukraine’s top general says his country must innovate on the level of inventing gunpowder to “break military parity” with Russia. If it’s successful, it could change the future of war...
This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy
Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy. Researchers think they’ve found a better balance...
Hacker Group Linked to Russian Military Claims Credit for Cyberattack on Kyivstar
A hacker group calling itself Solntsepek—previously linked to Russia’s notorious Sandworm hackers—says it carried out a disruptive breach of Kyivstar, a major Ukrainian mobile and internet provider...
Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users—Not 1 Percent
Okta upped its original estimate of customer support users affected by a recent breach from 1 percent to 100 percent, citing a “discrepancy.”...
The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
The third GOP debate is sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition and will be livestreamed on a platform favored by one of America’s most notorious white nationalists...
TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts
TikTokkers are using a little-known livestreaming feature to falsely represent Israelis and Palestinians—and the company is taking a cut of costly in-app gifts viewers give to participants...
The Team Helping Women Fight Digital Domestic Abuse
Location-enabled tech designed to make our lives easier is often exploited by domestic abusers. Refuge, a UK nonprofit, helps women to leave abusive relationships, secure their devices, and stay safe...
The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?...
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...
Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house...
A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame...
The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'
The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers...
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws
German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they're years behind normal cybersecurity standards...
UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Fresh claims from a former US intelligence officer about an “intact” alien craft may get traction on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to believe...
Apple's iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
Plus: Microsoft patches two zero-day flaws, Google’s Android and Chrome get some much-needed updates, and more...
The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose...
A TikTok ‘Car Theft’ Challenge Is Costing Hyundai $200 Million
Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks...
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...
Google’s Authenticator App Now Lets You Sync 2FA Codes Across Devices
You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted...
Chinese Cops Ran Troll Farm and Secret NY Police Station, US Says
Three criminal cases detail China's alleged attempts to extend its security forces' influence online—and around the globe...
Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations
The bizarre release of sensitive US government materials soon after their creation signals a potential shift to near-real-time unauthorized disclosures...
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT's regulatory woes...