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The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree
The agency's approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained...
100M More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won’t Be the Last
The Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications...
How to Log In to Your Devices Without Passwords
You can use your face, fingerprint, or a wearable to get access to your gadgets. It saves you some typing—and makes you feel like a spy...
Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Had 500M Users' Data Scraped
Plus: A bad Zoom bug, a billion-dollar cocaine bust, and more of the week's top security news...
Facebook Had Years to Fix Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data
Software makers can’t catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature...
Extremist Charged With Plot to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers
The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent...
Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet
In an attempt to silence Twitter, the Kremlin appears to have developed novel techniques to restrict online content...
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Stream
The new policy holds streamers to account for what happens on other services and in real life...
Hackers Are Exploiting Discord Links to Serve Up Malware
Beware of links from platforms that got big during quarantine...
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers...
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence community about the progress of recent years and the work that remains...
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With Cryptocurrency
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals...
Watch Out—That 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Cheat Might Be Malware
Players looking for a leg up are being duped into giving criminals a backdoor into their devices...
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...
Cops Take Down the ‘World’s Biggest' Video Game Cheat Ring
Plus: North Korean hackers, a rogue tweet, and more of the week's top security news...
Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return...
Water Supply Hacks Are a Serious Threat—and Only Getting Worse
An ex-employee allegedly tampered with a Kansas water system. It was too easy, and it's happening too often...
YouTube Has a Disturbingly Creepy Minecraft Problem
A WIRED investigation has found dozens of kid-focused videos with disturbing thumbnails that the platform serves up on the Topic pages of popular games...
How to Keep Nearby Strangers from Sending You Files
Sharing is caring—except when it's an unwelcome photo from a rando on the subway. Here's how to lock down your phone and computer...
Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation
Plus: Fox News gets sued for its election coverage again, a record ransomware attack, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot...
Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users...
Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs
The company’s investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebook’s own platforms...
‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats
Cloudflare says it’s possible to build a version of the notoriously slow and buggy tool without compromising on speed...
The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack
DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat...
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...
A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks SEC First
“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments...
Facebook's ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Outside the Social Network
The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses, which could in turn make the whole internet safer...
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia. Other Nations Will Take Note
Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow...
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not Hackers
A new ODNI report shows how extensive Russian and Iranian influence operations were, but it doesn’t mention a single hack-and-leak incident...
The UK Is Secretly Testing a Controversial Web Snooping Tool
The country passed its Investigatory Powers Act in 2016. Now, its building what could be the most powerful data collection system used by any democratic nation...
Hackers Accessed Security Cameras Inside Tesla and Beyond
Plus: A Molson-Coors hack, Github controversy, and more of the week's top security news...
How to Export Your Passwords From LastPass
The popular security service is severely limiting its free tier starting March 16. If you’d like to move your passwords to another manager, here’s how...
Netflix's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has a Silver Lining
The streaming service is making account owners enter two-factor codes in a limited test. That's … actually not so bad...
A Bird-Feed Seller Beat a Chess Master. Then It Got Ugly
Twitch and YouTube chess star Levy Rozman has faced over a week of sustained harassment after calling out an alleged cheater...
With Spectre Still Lurking, Google Looks to Protect the Web
To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work...
It’s Open Season for Microsoft Exchange Server Hacks
A patch for the vulnerabilities China exploited has been released. Now, criminal groups are going to reverse engineer it—if they haven’t already...
‘Retaliation’ for Russia's SolarWinds Spying Isn't the Answer
It will be hard pointing to a specific line the Kremlin crossed that the US hasn't crossed as well...
The Accellion Breach Keeps Getting Worse—and More Expensive
What started as a few vulnerabilities in firewall equipment has snowballed into a global extortion spree...
Privacy-First Browser Brave Is Launching a Search Engine
Unlike Google, Brave Search won’t track or profile people who use it...
How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You
Your emails know more about you than you might think, like when you open them or when you forward them to others. But you can reclaim your privacy...
Utah's ‘Porn Filter’ Law Passes the State Legislature
Plus: An iOS 14 jailbreak is out, Solarwinds details emerge, 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...
McAfee Is Indicted for Altcoin Pump-and-Dumps and ICO Schemes
The 75-year-old antivirus entrepreneur faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted...
China’s and Russia’s Spying Sprees Will Take Years to Unpack
The full extent of the SolarWinds hack and Hafnium’s attack on Microsoft Exchange Server may never be known...
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time...
Gab's CTO Introduced a Critical Vulnerability to the Site
A review of the open source code shows an account under the executive's name made a mistake that could lead to the kind of breach reported this weekend...
Twitch's First Transparency Report Is Here—and Long Overdue
The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place...
Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service...
2034, Part VI: Crossing the Red Line
“Eventually, the Americans would find them. But by then it would be too late.”...