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If Musk Starts Firing Twitter's Security Team, Run
What's next for the social network is anyone's guess—but here's what to watch as you wade through the privacy and security morass...
The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles
Custodians of the crowdsourced encyclopedia are charged with protecting it from state-sponsored manipulators. A new study reveals how...
How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android
Google wants to make your digital life—in its ecosystem, anyway—passwordless and more secure...
Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Pack New Android VPN and Tensor G2, Titan M2 Chips
The company says it hardened the security of its new flagship phones—and plans to release a built-in Android VPN...
Windows 11 Now Offers Automatic Phishing Protection
You’re safer than ever—here’s how...
Go Update iOS, Chrome, and HP Computers to Fix Serious Flaws
Plus: WhatsApp plugs holes that could be used for remote execution attacks, Microsoft patches a zero-day vulnerability, and more...
Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying
For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice...
VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold
Many companies have pulled physical servers from the country as a mandate to collect customer data goes into effect...
Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools...
The Deep Roots of Nigeria’s Cybersecurity Problem
Despite having one of the strongest data-protection policies in Africa, the country’s enforcement and disclosure practices remain dangerously broken...
The Shaky Future of a Post-Roe Federal Privacy Law
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act could protect people across the country. But first, it has to get past Nancy Pelosi...
The US May Soon Learn What a ‘Kid-Friendly’ Internet Looks Like
The California Age-Appropriate Design Code would launch a huge online privacy experiment. And it won’t just affect children...
Careless Errors in Hundreds of Apps Could Expose Troves of Data
Researchers found that mobile applications contain keys that could provide access to both user information and private files from unconnected apps...
How to Create a Secure Folder on Your Phone
Keep private photos, videos, and documents away from prying eyes...
Flaw in the VA Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk
The Veterans Affairs’ VistA software has a vulnerability that could let an attacker “masquerade as a doctor,” a security researcher warns...
Here’s What Trump’s ‘Nuclear Documents’ Could Be
FBI agents reportedly searched Mar-a-Lago for “nuclear documents.” That can fall into one of these four categories...
How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship
Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results...
Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?
Quantum-proof encryption is here—decades before it can be put to the test...
Here’s Why You’re Still Stuck in Robocall Hell
Despite major progress fighting spam and scams, the roots of the problem go far deeper than your phone company’s defenses...
AlphaBay Is Taking Over the Dark Web—Again
Five years after it was torn offline, the resurrected dark web marketplace is clawing its way back to the top of the online underworld...
‘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...
A $3 Billion Silk Road Seizure Will Erase Ross Ulbricht's Debt
In a twist, a massive trove of stolen bitcoins will repay the dark web market creator's $183 million restitution...
Hackers Are Getting Caught Exploiting New Bugs More Than Ever
A pair of reports from Mandiant and Google found a spike in zero-day vulnerabilities in 2021. The question is, why?...
Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces...
Researchers Used a Decommissioned Satellite to Broadcast Hacker TV
What happens when an old satellite is no longer in use but can still broadcast? Hacker shenanigans, that's what...
Chinese Spies Hacked a Livestock App to Breach US State Networks
Vulnerabilities in animal tracking software USAHERDS and Log4j gave the notorious APT41 group a foothold in multiple government systems...
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...
How to Set Up Lock Screens on All Your Devices
Your lock screen stands between your private data and unwelcome visitors—make sure you set it up correctly...
The CIA Has Secretly Run a ‘Bulk Collection’ Program
Plus: Vulnerability fixes, the return of EARN IT, and more of the week’s top security news...
North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400M in Crypto Last Year
The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups...
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by a Chinese Hacking Group
The move delivers a blow to the hackers behind sophisticated attacks on government agencies, think tanks, and other organizations...
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...
The Matrix Is the Best Hacker Movie
Most people point to Sneakers or WarGames. They’re all wrong. The Wachowskis actually invented the ultimate cyber superhero...
How a Squid Game Crypto Scam Got Away With Millions
On the front lines of the $SQUID “rug pull” that left investors in the lurch...
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...
An Absurdly Basic Bug Let Anyone Grab All of Parler's Data
The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video...
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...
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say...
How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself...
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more...
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner...
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm...
Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history...
The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran
The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career...
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation...
Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse
Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities...
NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program
The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone...