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How Mail Bombs Get Intercepted—And What Happens Next
Devices that might be explosives targeting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and more all are caught before reaching their final destinations. Here's how...
What You Should Know About the Google Play Store Changes
With the first updates kicking in this month, Android apps should be more streamlined and lightweight. Google is also getting a greater level of control...
As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Keeps Paying Out
While major carriers like AXA have backed away from covering ransoms, don't expect the industry at large to break the vicious cycle...
A Ransomware Group Hit DC Police—Then Pivoted to Extortion
Warrantless searches, tracking troops, and more of the week’s top security news...
The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever...
'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Lesson in Military Opposites
The Resistance is outmanned and outgunned, but their adaptability wins the day...
Google Tightens Its Voice Assistant Rules Amid Privacy Backlash
Following Apple, Amazon, and others, Google will put in new safeguards against accidental voice assistant collection and transcription...
$700 Million Equifax Fine Is Still Too Little, Too Late
For failing to safeguard Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and more, Equifax will pay up—but not enough, experts say...
Cloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online
The company's Project Galileo has helped organizations fend off DDoS and other attacks for the last five years...
Election Security Is Still Hurting at Every Level
With the 2020 election fast approaching, too many problems from 2016 persist...
All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It
Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from knowing your location, web browsing, and more...
Be Careful Using Bots on Telegram
Introducing a bot to a secure Telegram conversation downgrades the level of encryption—without providing any visual cues...
Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think
Researchers built a tool that can predict where you live and work, as well as other sensitive information, just by using geotagged tweets...
The Titan M Chip Powers Up Pixel 3 Security
Google's latest flagship smartphone includes the Titan M, a security-focused chip that keeps users safe against sophisticated attacks...
Goodbye Internet Explorer—and Good Riddance
Microsoft will finally put the venerated, vulnerability-ridden browser out to pasture, but it's still got a year to cause some trouble...
Why 'Zero Day' Android Hacking Now Costs More Than iOS Attacks
Brokers of so-called zero day exploits are paying out more for Android than iOS—which would have been unthinkable until recently...
John Ratcliffe Is a Dangerous Pick for Director of National Intelligence
The director of national intelligence's main job is to speak truth to power. Trump's nominee, John Ratcliffe, seems destined to do the opposite...
Europe’s Galileo Satellite Outage Serves as a Warning
The dramatic EU Galileo incident underscores the threat of satellite timing and navigation system failures...
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget
Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security...
Mueller Report Says No Collusion, Barr Raises a Million Questions
In a convoluted letter to Congress, Attorney General William Barr summarized Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation and said he won't charge President Trump with obstruction...
A New Google Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords
“Password Checkup” isn’t a password manager but a simple tool that warns you if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in data breaches...
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns
In its second annual “Privacy Not Included” guide, the nonprofit highlights internet-connected items that value your privacy—and the ones that may not...
Hack Brief: Someone Posted Private Facebook Messages From 81,000 Accounts
The data appears to have been stolen with malicious browser extensions, and not by exploiting an issue with Facebook’s platform...
WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy Just Kicked In
Instead of a hard cutoff, the messaging app will gradually degrade and eventually cease to function if you don’t accept the changes...
How to Understand the Russia Hack Fallout
Not all SolarWinds victims are created equal...
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
Fried onion meets 1984...
Apple and New York Are Changing the Privacy Game, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
US Air Force Defector Allegedly Helped Iran Hack Americans
In an astonishing indictment, the DOJ details how Monica Witt allegedly turned on her former counterintelligence colleagues...
Hackers Hit Make-A-Wish Website With Cryptojacking Scheme
Cryptojacking officially knows no bounds...
A New Privacy Bill, Safer White Hat Hacking, and More Security News This Week
A CIA debacle, a new side channel attack, and more security news this week...
Trump's Personal iPhone Would Be a National Security Risk
By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy...
A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe...
Biden’s Cybersecurity Team Gets Crowded at the Top
It’s a lot of talent, but the US now has five overlapping roles jockeying for limited budgets, authorities, and bureaucratic victories...
The First BlueKeep Mass Hacking Is Finally Here—but Don't Panic
After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been...
The Air Force Wants to Give You Its Credit Card
Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to WIRED's editor in chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day...
Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records
The so-called Collections 1-5 represent a gargantuan, patched-together Frankenstein of rotting personal data...
Trump Must Be a Russian Agent; the Alternative Is Too Awful
We know a lot about the “what” of the Mueller probe’s findings. The crucial questions now focus on the “why.”...
I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice...
Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy
Registered Agents Inc. has for years allowed businesses to register under a cloak of anonymity. A WIRED investigation reveals that its secretive founder has taken the practice to an extreme...
Apple Exec Calls Mac Malware Levels Unacceptable Under Oath
Ireland's ransomware crisis continues, a Russian scammer gets sentenced, and more of the week's top security news...
Hackers Discovered Only After Maxing Out Victim's Cloud Storage
A border privacy win, a suspect Army app, and more of the week's top security news...
Hackers Made an App That Kills to Prove a Point
Medtronic and the FDA left an insulin pump with a potentially deadly vulnerability on the market—until researchers who found the flaw showed how bad it could be...
Your Google Calendar Isn't Safe, an Eye-Controlled TV, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff...
A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications
Researchers have discovered a way to break one of Cisco's most critical security features, which puts countless networks at potential risk...
An Elon Musk Imposter, Foreign Malware Samples, and More Security News This Week
Compromised crypto, flawed SSDs, and more of the week's top security news...
The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points
Sales intelligence firm Apollo left a "staggering amount" of exposed online, including 125 million email addresses and nine billion data points...
Biden Puts a $10M Bounty on Foreign Hackers
Plus: REvil goes dark, spyware runs amok, and more of the week's top security news...