Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections...

How GDPR Is Failing

The world-leading data law changed how companies work. But four years on, there’s a lag on cleaning up Big Tech...

Your iPhone Is Vulnerable to a Malware Attack Even When It’s Off

Researchers found a way to exploit the tech that enables Apple’s Find My feature, which could allow attackers to track location when a device is powered down...

Android 13 Tries to Make Privacy and Security a No-Brainer

With its latest mobile OS update, Google aims to simplify the adoption of Android’s protective features for users and developers alike...

What to Do If You Can’t Log In to Your Google Account

Locked out of your calendar or Gmail? Here’s how to get unstuck—and prevent it from happening in the first place...

VPN Providers Threaten to Quit India Over New Data Law

The country has ordered companies operating VPNs to collect user data and hand it over to officials—but they’re refusing to do so...

Is Leaking a SCOTUS Opinion a Crime? The Law Is Far From Clear

The leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade quickly sparked a court investigation. Which laws may have been violated, if any, remains uncertain...

WhatsApp Doubles Down With End-to-End Encrypted ‘Communities’

More than just group DMs, WhatsApp's new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging...

How Explosions Actually Kill

Wars often spark misinformation about the nature of blast trauma. Russia's unprovoked bombardment of Ukraine is no different...

The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain

If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail...

A Developer Altered Open Source Software to Wipe Files in Russia

The author of a popular application pushed out an update containing malicious code in an effort to sabotage computers in the country...

The Lapsus$ Hacking Group Is Off to a Chaotic Start

Telegram polls. Unusual demands. The latest extortion gang is on an unorthodox rampage...

Critical Bugs Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Medical Devices

The so-called Access:7 vulnerabilities are the latest high-profile IoT security fumble...

DDoS Attempts Hit Russia as Ukraine Conflict Intensifies

Plus: Hacker recruits, NFT thefts, and more of the week’s top security news...

An Insidious Mac Malware Is Growing More Sophisticated

When UpdateAgent emerged in late 2020, it utilized basic infiltration techniques. Its developers have since expanded it in dangerous ways...

Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous...

How to Guard Against Smishing Attacks on Your Phone

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise...

Researchers Have a Method to Spot Reddit’s State-Backed Trolls

Academics claim they can sniff out the telltale signs of troll-like behavior. But is it really as simple as monitoring cute animal postings?...

A Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host

Even the most extreme internet infrastructure providers have turned their backs on the website for violating their terms of service...

Why Ransomware Hackers Love a Holiday Weekend

Looking forward to Labor Day? So are ruthless gangs of cybercriminals...

A Florida Teen Allegedly Shut Down School With a DDoS Attack

Plus: Predictive policing taken even farther, Amazon surveillance of private Facebook groups, and more of the week’s top security news...

How to Vote by Mail and Make Sure It Counts

There's a lot going on with the USPS right now. Here's a complete state-by-state guide to how to get your ballot—and when it's due...

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...

Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

The so-called BlueLeaks collection includes internal memos, financial records, and more from over 200 state, local, and federal agencies...

How to Keep Your Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Voice Recordings Private

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it...

Facebook Fails, Russian Hacks, and More Security News This Week

The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news...

The Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On

The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says...

Kid-Focused Apps Track Location, UK Spying, and More Security News This Week

In security news this week, some apps for children may violate privacy laws, State Department devices might be less secure than your Instagram account, and more...

How to Watch Twitter and Facebook Testify Before Congress Wednesday

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will field questions about foreign interference, perceived bias, and more...

Watch Workers Learn How to Filter Obscene and Violent Photos From Dating Sites

Directors Adrian Chen and Ciaran Cassidy give WIRED a first look at their disturbing short documentary on content moderation. The post Watch Workers Learn How to Filter Obscene and Violent Photos From Dating Sites appeared first on WIRED...

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox...

You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V

A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos...

The Cop Who Took On Flock

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years...

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test...

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more...

Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets

Political candidates are purchasing more home alarms, bulletproof vests, and other protections amid rising fears of political violence...

A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED...

Livestream Replay: The War Machine

A panel of WIRED experts dissected the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare...

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender...

US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran

US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown...

Dozens of ICE Vehicles in Minnesota Lack ‘Necessary’ Lights and Sirens

A contract justification published in a federal register on Tuesday says that 31 ICE vehicles operating in the Twin Cities area “lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens” to be “compliant.”...

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement...

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website...

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public...

A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps

New records about the infamous sex offender are released seemingly every week. Here’s a quick rundown of who’s releasing the Epstein documents, what they contain—and what they’re releasing next...

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you...

ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms

Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms...

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure’s downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes...

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure...

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality...