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5G Is Here—and Still Vulnerable to Stingray Surveillance
5G was supposed to offer new protections against so-called stingray surveillance devices. New research shows it's anything but...
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...
Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse
Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data...
Julian Assange Arrested, *Jeopardy!* Game Theory, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
A Guide to RCS, Why Apple’s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better
The messaging standard promises better security and cooler features than plain old SMS. Android has had it for years, but now iPhones are getting it too...
Do Not Stare Into the Crypto Orb
A PrintNightmare exploit, a VPN takedown, 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...
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...
A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass
Google Project Zero found and reported a flaw in the widely used password manager...
How Safecrackers Can Unlock an ATM in Minutes—Without Leaving a Trace
At Defcon this week, security researcher Mike Davis will show how he can pick the lock of an ATM safe in no time, thanks to its electric leaks...
13-Year-Old Encryption Bugs Still Haunt Apps and IoT
RSA encryption has been around for decades. Unfortunately, so have bad implementations that leave it less secure...
Apple Contractors Will Stop Listening to Your Siri Recordings—For Now
Facial recognition hits minors, Facebook takes down Saudi accounts, and more security news this week...
How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong
It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score...
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...
Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices
By officially certifying the FIDO2 standard, the mobile OS will soon allow logins to sites and services without having to put in a password...
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders...
Mueller: Cohen Lied About Trump Organization's Moscow Project
Trump's former lawyer has testified that the Trump Organization pursued a real estate deal with Moscow deep into the 2016 presidential campaign...
Apple's T2 Security Chip Makes It Harder to Tap MacBook Mics
By cutting off the microphone at the hardware level, recent MacBook devices minimize the chance that someone can eavesdrop...
Facebook Wins, Facebook Losses, and More Security News This Week
The Facebook breach, 3-D printed guns on Broadway, and more security news this week...
The Top 30 Vulnerabilities Include Plenty of Usual Suspects
Plus: A sneaky iOS app, a wiper attack in Iran, and more of the week’s top security news...
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...
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...
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...
Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons
A security researcher has demonstrated how to force everyday commercial speakers to emit harmful sounds...
Trump's Cyber Czar Is Back—and He Wants to Make Hackers Suffer
Former White House top cybersecurity official Tom Bossert reveals his new startup, Trinity. Its focus: "active threat inference."...
Adware Is the Malware You Should Actually Be Worried About
For all the attention on sophisticated nation-state attacks, the malware that’s most likely to hit your phone is much more mundane...
A Zoom Flaw Gives Hackers Easy Access to Your Webcam
All it takes is one wrong click, and the popular video conferencing software will put you in a meeting with a stranger...
Inside China’s Surveillance Crackdown on Uyghurs
In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of...
An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses...
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...
Rowhammer Data Hacks Are More Dangerous Than Anyone Feared
Researchers have discovered that the so-called Rowhammer technique works on "error-correcting code" memory, in what amounts to a serious escalation...
GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found...
Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
A single group appears to have infiltrated tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in an ongoing onslaught...
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...
Chinese Hacking Surges Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, and more of the week's top security news...
Russia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos
The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy’s loose seams, and pull...
Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough...
Read the Trump Whistleblower Complaint Right Here
A conversation between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sparked a detailed complaint from an intelligence community whistle-blower. Here it is...
How Trump’s Ukraine Mess Entangled CrowdStrike
A US cybersecurity company became a topic of interest for President Donald Trump in his call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky...
We All Could Pay a Price for the Latest Slap at Huawei
An international cybersecurity group has evicted the Chinese telecom company to comply with US sanctions. That could allow malware to spread more easily...
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...
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...
Feds Dismantled the Dark-Web Drug Trade—but It's Already Rebuilding
After recent high-profile dark-web drug market takedowns, new vendors are already filling the void...
A YubiKey for iOS Will Soon Free Your iPhone From Passwords
Yubico has finally gotten the green light from Apple to make a hardware authentication token that works on iPhones and iPads...
The Mueller Investigation May Be Safe Despite Matt Whitaker
Robert Mueller's work as special counsel may seem imperiled by the acting attorney general, but there's plenty of reason for optimism...