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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...
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...
Signal Threatens to Leave the US If EARN IT Act Passes
Plus: WhatsApp updates, a ransomware scheme, and more of the week's top security news...
Don't Get Screwed Out of Your Equifax Settlement Money
If you signed up for $125 payout in the Equifax settlement, you just hit another hurdle. But this isn't over...
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff...
Mueller Investigation 2019: Indictments, Witnesses, and More
The special counsel has lots of unfinished business on his to-do list this year, including a final report. Here's a rundown...
GOP Email Hack Shows How Bad Midterm Election Meddling Got
Hacking during the midterm election season seemed muted, but it turns out that the National Republican Congressional Committee suffered a major breach...
Why a Hacker Exploited Printers to Make PewDiePie Propaganda
An anonymous hacker has claimed credit for the prank, which is part of an ongoing YouTube subscriber feud...
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets...
AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies...
What Is a Dead Drop?
A mainstay of spycraft still has plenty of relevance in the digital age...
What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night
At WIRED25, the NSA's Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones...
Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones...
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...
Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue
Opinion: Elizabeth Warren endorsed Right to Repair for farm equipment, pushing the cause to a new level of prominence...
Utah Just Became a Leader in Digital Privacy
Opinion: Utah legislators recently voted to pass landmark legislation in support of a new privacy law. Statehouses across the country should take notes...
Why the US Needs a Strategy for AI
Opinion: With its American AI Initiative, the White House is devoting funding, research, and data infrastructure to boosting our prowess in artificial intelligence...
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
BravoMovies isn’t real. But it goes to a remarkable amount of trouble to convince you that it is...
The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google’s Bug-Hunting Badass
The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes...
Google Calls Out Safari for Privacy Flaws
Facial recognition, iCloud encryption, and the rest of this week's top security news...
The Air Force Ditches Its Nuclear Command Floppy Disks
A Samsung Galaxy 10 fingerprint goof, a Tor impostor, and more of the week's top security news...
I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy
Opinion: We've been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That's far from certain...
Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years...
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...
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...
If China Hacked Marriott, 2014 Marked a Full-on Assault
It increasingly appears that China was behind the Marriott hack, making 2014 a landmark year in cyberattacks against the US...
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight
Recent developments in the special counsel investigation indicate that things are about to heat up...
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...
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...
US Soldiers Exposed Nuclear Secrets on Digital Flash Ccards
Plus: A major hack in Japan, Citizen app run amok, and more of the week’s top security news...
Pompeo Was Riding High—Until the Ukraine Mess Exploded
The US secretary of state may be a Trump favorite, but the Ukraine scandal appears to threaten Mike Pompeo’s ambitions for higher office...
You'll Get Your Equifax Money. It Just Might Take a While
Despite the FTC pushing people away from an Equifax cash payout, there's a good chance you'll get all $125. Eventually...
Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps
Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Spring Clean Your Digital Clutter to Protect Yourself
You don't have to get your hands dirty to do the most important spring cleaning of the year...
885 Million First American Financial Records Exposed Online
Real estate giant First American left Social Security numbers, tax documents, and more publicly available...
How Tech Helped the NSC Change the US Way of War
The National Security Council has gained enormous influence over the last few decades—thanks in no small part to better tech...
Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Videogame Logic Engine to Protect Macs
A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system's own indicators, and some videogame magic, to keep a lookout...
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
Can a trio of privacy advocates effect change from within Facebook—or will they be stifled by corporate bureaucracy?...
How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence
Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers...
Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation
When we're being watched, we conform. We don't speak freely or try new things. But social progress happens in the gap between what’s legal and what’s moral...
How to Send Messages That Automatically Disappear
Need to be discreet? Here's how to set up vanishing texts, photos, or videos in most popular chat apps...
The SolarWinds Hackers Aren’t ‘Back.’ They Never Went Away
A new phishing campaign from Russian spies targeted USAID, among others. But it’s less an escalation than a regression to the mean...
Pro-Trump Trolls Flooded the Iowa Caucus Phone Lines
Google photo sharing, Wacom tracking, and more of the week's top security news...
How AI Is Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak
Machine-learning programs are analyzing websites, news reports, and social media posts for signs of symptoms, such as fever or breathing problems...
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...
How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules...
House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks
The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into President Trump includes the now defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans...
A Twitter DM Fail, Free Credit Freezes, and More Security News This Week
Free credit freezes, a better private browser, and more security news this week...
A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran
A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran...
Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Spying
A new US indictment against a group of Russian nationals offers a clear example of how, authorities say, a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking...