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Chinese Hacking Surges Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, 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...
A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass
Google Project Zero found and reported a flaw in the widely used password manager...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Defcon Is Canceled
For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Do Not Stare Into the Crypto Orb
A PrintNightmare exploit, a VPN takedown, and more of the week's top security news...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Homecoming Queen Was Arrested for Alleged Vote Hacking
Plus: A mysterious zero-day spree, a high-profile hacker indictment, and more of the week’s top security news...
Windows 7 Gets One Last Update For the Road
A Silk Road guilty plea, a UN hack, and more of the week's top security news...
15 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Were Breached
Telegram hacks in Russia, Senate encryption hearings, and more in the week’s top security news...
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...
The MacOS Catalina Privacy and Security Features You Should Know
The latest macOS update is chock-full of ways to better safeguard your data...
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...
Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons
A security researcher has demonstrated how to force everyday commercial speakers to emit harmful sounds...
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...
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...
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...