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...

Update Your iPhone and iPad Now If You Haven't Recently

Plus: A ransomware arrest, a dating site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...

Look Out for This Covid-19 Excel Phishing Scam

Plus: An iOS leak, an EasyJet breach, 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...

Trump Takes Aim at the 'Open Skies' Cold War Treaty With Russia

The Open Skies treaty has provided invaluable intelligence for its 34 signatory countries. Now Donald Trump reportedly wants out...

7 Cybersecurity Threats That Can Sneak Up on You

From rogue USB sticks to Chrome extensions gone wild, here is a quick guide to some basic risks you should look out for...

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...

All the Code Connections Between Russia’s Hackers, Visualized

A sort of constellation chart for Kremlin malware, made by two cybersecurity firms, demonstrates the scale of Russia's distinct hacking operations...

The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite

At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory...

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...

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...

Zoom Will Fix the Flaw That Let Hackers Hijack Webcams

While it at first dismissed the vulnerability, Zoom says it will release a patch Tuesday night...

The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims

To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me...

Robert Mueller Speaks, Amazon’s New Echo Show, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...

Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems

Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them vulnerable to attack...

If China Hacked Marriott, 2014 Marked a Full-on Assault

It increasingly appears that China was behind the Marriott hack, making 2014 a landmark year in cyberattacks against the US...

Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy

Australia has passed a law that would require companies to weaken their encryption, a move that could reverberate globally...

Midterm Elections 2018: Voting Machine Meltdowns Are Normal—That’s the Problem

Americans watched their voting technology break down right in front of their eyes—or on social media—Tuesday, but it's too soon to tell if the problems reached historic proportions...

5 Simple Ways to Make Your Gmail Inbox Safer

These built-in features definitely protect your data, but they can help keep your inbox tidy too...

Chinese Hacking Surges Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, and more of the week's top security news...

Congress Grills Joseph Maguire Over Trump's Whistle-Blower Scandal

Acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire answered Congress's questions about the Ukraine whistle-blower complaint—but not always to satisfaction...

Supermicro Bug Could Let 'Virtual USBs' Take Over Corporate Servers

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers...

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...

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...

Watch Robert Mueller’s Statement on the Russia Investigation

Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public remarks since the release of his report in April...

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...

Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People

The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall...

States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers...

What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us

The special counsel's indictments have so far stopped short of tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in...

Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing

Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."...

Tor Is Easier Than Ever. Time to Give It a Try

Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever...

What the US Can Learn from Israel and China's Collaboration

Opinion: What we can learn from Israel's surprising technological ties with China...

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Is Still Calling for an Encryption Backdoor

At a cybercrime conference Thursday, Rod Rosenstein once again decried "going dark."...

The Unfixed Flaw at the Heart of REvil’s Ransomware Spree

Security researchers warned Kaseya about its IT management software in April, but the patches didn't come fast enough to avert last week's disaster...

A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies

An apparent supply chain attack exploited Kaseya's IT management software to encrypt a "monumental" number of victims all at once...

The Safest Way to Store and Share Your Nudes

Listen, if you’re going to take them, follow these precautions so they don’t go anywhere you don’t intend them to...

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...

There's a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS

The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release...

Elite Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Emails to Set Traps

Plus: A Comcast blunder, a Clearview AI lawsuit, 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...

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?...

How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn't

Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won't make you as invisible as it might sound...

Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now?

In an interview with WIRED, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains his decision to stop protecting 8chan—and where the notorious forum goes from here...

Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms

The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets...

Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory...

Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...

How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America

A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election...

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...

The Latest Pro-Trump Twitter Clone Leaks User Data on Day 1

Plus: A failed takedown in Russia, details on an FBI-sting encrypted phone, and more of the week's top security news...