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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...
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...
The NSA and FBI Expose Fancy Bear's Sneaky Hacking Tool
Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this 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...
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...
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...
The 25 Most Dangerous Software Vulnerabilities
DMV privacy, a password ruling, and more of 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...
Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough...
How to Control the Privacy of Your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Posts
Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, lock down who can see what you're up to...
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...
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...
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."...
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...
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...
What the US Can Learn from Israel and China's Collaboration
Opinion: What we can learn from Israel's surprising technological ties with China...
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...
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show...
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data...
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know...
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...
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...
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...
An Unfixable Flaw Threatens 5 Years of Intel Chips
Plus: A J. Crew breach, CIA hacking, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money
If you had a Yahoo account from 2012 to 2016, you probably have $100 coming your way...
Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years
Mark Zuckerberg promised default end-to-end encryption throughout Facebook's platforms. Nearly a year later, Messenger's not even close...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hacking Diplomatic Cables Is Expected. Exposing Them Is Not
Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered...
The Privacy Battle to Save Google From Itself
Interviews with over a dozen current and former Google employees highlight a commitment to privacy—and the inherent tensions that creates...
How to 'Turn Off' the Presidential Emergency Text Alert Test
If you really don't want to receive today's emergency test text message, there's one pretty simple workaround...
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...
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations...
How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware
It's a growing threat for individual users and businesses alike—but there are ways to protect yourself...
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...
Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims
Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit...
A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH
An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, 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...
A Critical Device Hack, China's Social Credit, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
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...
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...
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...
Forging a Relationship With Tyler Barriss, the Internet’s Most Hated Swatter
Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes...