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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why...
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...
Harmful 'Nudify' Websites Used Google, Apple, and Discord Sign-On Systems
Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found. Discord and Apple have started to terminate some developers’ accounts...
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...
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...
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...
'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Lesson in Military Opposites
The Resistance is outmanned and outgunned, but their adaptability wins the day...
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...
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...
Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info
Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras...
The Danger in Assange’s Charges, a Memory Experiment, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom
By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...
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...
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...
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...
How the FBI Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone
Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe’s SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week’s top security news...
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
Fried onion meets 1984...
Europe’s Galileo Satellite Outage Serves as a Warning
The dramatic EU Galileo incident underscores the threat of satellite timing and navigation system failures...
Under Trump, Cybersecurity Has Waned
Opinion: Congress has abdicated its role in preventing and punishing cyberattacks. The Cyber Solarium Commission is our best defense...
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...
Hackers Hit Make-A-Wish Website With Cryptojacking Scheme
Cryptojacking officially knows no bounds...
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...
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...
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...
AirDrop Is Leaking Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Apple has known about the flaw since 2019 but has yet to acknowledge or fix it...
How to Understand the Russia Hack Fallout
Not all SolarWinds victims are created equal...
What Is a Dead Drop?
A mainstay of spycraft still has plenty of relevance in the digital age...
Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban Life
Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Trump’s ‘Racist’ Midterms Ad Backs Facebook Into a Corner
Facebook took down Donald Trump’s ad for violating its policies, but you can still watch the video on his profile...
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...
Google Won't Kill the URL After All
Plus: A Colonial Pipeline update, inside details of the FBI's Anom caper, 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...
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...
Russia and Iran Plan to Fundamentally Isolate the Internet
Opinion: Russia and Iran’s decisions to build isolated, domestic internets represent a new form of internet fragmentation—one that is far more physical than what we’ve seen before...
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...
Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are incredibly convenient—but increasingly the root of a lot of security lapses...
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...
The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself
Tuesday's worldwide threats briefing to Congress outline numerous concerns for US security—many of which Donald Trump has inflamed or denied...
How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again
OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity...
The Feds Just Hit Notorious Swatter Tyler Barriss With 46 New Charges. He Intends to Plead Guilty
Prosecutors in California have filed 46 new counts against Tyler Barriss for bomb threats, fraud, and swatting incidents nationwide. He’s angling to get the case transferred to Kansas and intends to plead guilty...
Biden Puts a $10M Bounty on Foreign Hackers
Plus: REvil goes dark, spyware runs amok, and more of the week's top security news...
The Sneaky Simple Malware That Hits Millions of Macs
How the Shlayer Trojan topped the macOS malware charts—despite its “rather ordinary” methods...
885 Million First American Financial Records Exposed Online
Real estate giant First American left Social Security numbers, tax documents, and more publicly available...
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...
Amber Authenticate Protects Video Footage From Deepfakes and Tampering
Many of the body cameras worn by police are woefully vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. Amber Authenticate wants to fix that—with the blockchain...