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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...
Be Careful Using Bots on Telegram
Introducing a bot to a secure Telegram conversation downgrades the level of encryption—without providing any visual cues...
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...
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...
The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever...
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...
Facebook Removes a Fresh Batch of Iran-Linked Fake Accounts
Outside researchers tipped Facebook off that a social media network was pushing Iranian interests, posing as journalists, and even impersonating politicians...
Snapchat Employees Reportedly Spied on Private Snaps
Baltimore ransomware, a Trump golf hack, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
9 Trumpworld Figures Who Should Fear Mueller the Most
After Michael Cohen's sentencing, plenty more people and entities in Trump's orbit potentially sit in the special counsel's crosshairs...
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...
Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
You don't even have to click anything...
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...
Facebook Let Dozens of Cybercrime Groups Operate in Plain Sight
Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Defcon Is Canceled
For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off...
15 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Were Breached
Telegram hacks in Russia, Senate encryption hearings, and more in the week’s top security news...
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web
At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again...
Congress Still Doesn't Have an Answer for Ransomware
As data hijackers continue to target local governments and hospitals, legislators remain stymied over how best to address the problem...
The MacOS Catalina Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
The latest macOS update is chock-full of ways to better safeguard your data...
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...
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...
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...
How to Avoid Those Infuriating Cookie Pop-Ups
Cookie consent notices are everywhere, and opting out of tracking is a pain. It doesn’t have to be this way...
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...
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 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...
A VxWorks Operating System Bug Exposes 200 Million Critical Devices
VxWorks is designed as a secure, "real-time" operating system for continuously functioning devices, like medical equipment, elevator controllers, or satellite modems...
Mueller's Bottom Line: Indicting Trump Wasn't Even an Option
Robert Mueller outlined the conclusions of the Russia investigation and made clear, in his own obtuse way, that the next steps belong to Congress...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Do Not Stare Into the Crypto Orb
A PrintNightmare exploit, a VPN takedown, and more of the week's top security news...
How Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Bluetooth Contact-Tracing
The tech giants have teamed up to use a Bluetooth-based framework to keep track of the spread of infections without compromising location privacy...
Think Twice Before Giving Gifts With a Microphone or Camera
Black Friday is going to be overrun with cheap, internet-connected gifts. Just make sure you know exactly what you’re buying...
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...
How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code
For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase...