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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...
Facebook Finally Fixes Its Two-Factor Mess
A Wawa breach, Russian spies, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data...
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...
What Is a Dead Drop?
A mainstay of spycraft still has plenty of relevance in the digital age...
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...
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...
Quora Hacked, Moscow Ransomware, and More Security News This Week
China accusations, Eastern European bank heists, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones...
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Google Calls Out Safari for Privacy Flaws
Facial recognition, iCloud encryption, and the rest of this week's top security news...
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...
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...
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...
The Same Old Encryption Debate Has a New Target: Facebook
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant...
Facebook’s New Privacy Feature Comes With a Loophole
"Off-Facebook Activity" will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Do Not Stare Into the Crypto Orb
A PrintNightmare exploit, a VPN takedown, 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...
Chinese Hacking Surges Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, 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...
The Android 10 Privacy and Security Upgrades You Should Know About
Google's next big Android release will make you safer—especially in ways you can't see...
Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
You don't even have to click anything...
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...
How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules...
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...
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...
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky...
Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Amazon acquires Wickr, the Senate holds up CISA, and more of the week’s top security news...
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 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...
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...