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End-to-End Encryption's Central Role in Modern Self-Defense
With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience...
Gun Database Breach Leaks Details on Thousands of Owners
Plus: Indian hacker-for-hire groups, Chinese student espionage efforts, and more...
A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived
MongoDB claims its new “Queryable Encryption” lets users search their databases while sensitive data stays encrypted. Oh, and its cryptography is open source...
Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times
The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop...
‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’
During the protests in Hong Kong, young people carried laser pointers, umbrellas, and plastic ties—objects that sometimes led to their arrest, and years of legal limbo...
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
The encrypted-email company, popular with security-conscious users, has a plan to go mainstream...
How to Protect Your Digital Privacy if Roe v. Wade Falls
Reproductive rights are still largely guaranteed in the United States. Here are some key privacy concepts to adopt in the event that they're not...
One of the Most Powerful DDoS Attacks Ever Hits a Crypto Platform
The onslaught was delivered through HTTPS, which puts more strain on a target, and it suggests that attackers are getting more powerful...
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones to Access Forbidden Media
A new report suggests that a small but vibrant group of smartphones hackers may be challenging the world's most digitally restrictive regime...
A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine
The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe...
'This Is Really, Really Bad': Lapsus$ Gang Claims Okta Hack
Lapsus$ leaking Microsoft source code would be bad enough. Breaching Okta could be much, much worse...
Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald's for $900 Million
Kytch alleges that the Golden Arches crushed its business—and left soft serve customers out in the cold...
Ukraine’s Defense—and Hacktivists—Have Raised Over $4M in Crypto
Russia’s invasion into the country sparked a surge of crypto donations to resistance groups...
Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls
Western intelligence services are raising alarms about Cyclops Blink, the latest tool at the notorious group’s disposal...
If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close
As troops amass on Ukraine’s border, civilians capture it all on camera. Online sleuths are now unpacking the details...
Is Firefox OK?
Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web...
Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy Is Now a Scrap Over Phone Records
Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor wants to leave Myanmar. Activists say its exit risks putting their data— and their freedom—at risk...
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...
A DDoS Attack Wiped Out Andorra's Internet
Plus: Securing US water systems, the FBI's NSO Group dealings, and more of the week's top security news...
How Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Keep You Safe
The newest security measure is still in beta. But if you want to make use of it, here's what you need to know...
How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Custom Experience Tracking
Unless you manually opt out of the program, Verizon will store personal information and create user interest profiles...
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 Canadian Teen Was Arrested in a $36.5M SIM-Swap Heist
Plus: An FBI email hack, a cam site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Use iCloud+'s New Security Features
Apple's cloud storage service now comes with perks—and they're designed to improve your digital privacy and security...
How to Get Your Family to Actually Use a Password Manager
Whether it's about sharing your Netflix login or getting your affairs in order, here are tips for convincing your loved ones to organize and protect their accounts too...
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out...
Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene
Police increasingly ask Google and other tech firms for data about who was where, when. Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says He's Got Election Stuff Under Control
Facebook rolls out its plan to protect the US from November mayhem...
DoNotPay Unsubscribes You From Spam—and Tries to Get You Paid
There's finally a way to get off of email lists with your privacy intact...
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...
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...
A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers and Dumping Their Code
Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets...
Twitter Finally Bans Alex Jones—Over a Publicity Stunt
After years of abuse and spreading conspiracy theories, Alex Jones finally went too far for Twitter with a relatively tame rant...
How Trump Could Trigger Armageddon With a Tweet
Times have changed. The president is being held in check by terrified aides who are trying to keep his worst impulses in check. But disaster may only be a tweet away. Here's how it could happen...
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...
Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women...
Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints...
FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure
China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ...
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan...
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed...
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...
Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins
A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more...
Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers
The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines remain at risk...
Why Sharing a Screenshot Can Get You Jailed in the UAE
The war in Iran has drawn attention to arrests in the United Arab Emirates over online content, but the legal framework behind that enforcement has existed for years...
The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors...
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition...
In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy
OpenAI says its safeguards “sufficiently reduce cyber risk” for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model...
The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity...
What Happens When You Can’t Get a Death Certificate in Gaza
For families of the missing, systemic obstacles to identifying remains and locating people in Israeli detention has created a kind of social and legal purgatory...
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...