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How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules...
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...
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...
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 Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw now fixed allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another participants’ device...
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...
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...
Apple’s M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw
The covert channel bug is harmless, but it demonstrates that even new CPUs have mistakes in them...
Defcon Is Canceled
For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off...
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...
Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
You don't even have to click anything...
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...
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...
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...
Julian Assange Arrested, *Jeopardy!* Game Theory, and More News
Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less...
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...
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...
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 White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there...
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 SolarWinds Body Count Now Includes NASA and the FAA
Plus: Firefox blocks more tracking, how to fight a robodog, and more of the week’s top security news...
Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?...
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...
The MacOS Catalina Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
The latest macOS update is chock-full of ways to better safeguard your data...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others...
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...
There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse...
Why the Password Isn't Dead Quite Yet
Everyone hates the old ways of authentication. But while change is closer than ever, it comes with its own drawbacks...
How to Avoid App Store Scams
Apple’s and Google’s approval guidelines are notoriously lax—and they won’t keep out apps that are after your money and data. Here’s how to sniff them out...
The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
The government's latest attack is aimed at discouraging the company from following through with its planned rollout across platforms...
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pages—including celebrities and politicians—for several hours...
15 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Were Breached
Telegram hacks in Russia, Senate encryption hearings, and more in the week’s top security news...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right
If Facebook and Google's recent security debacles proved anything, it's that disclosure is tricky business...
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...
They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them...