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Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump
The president dismissed the widely respected cybersecurity agency director Tuesday night for pushing back against election disinformation...
Forget Impostors. Among Us Is a Playground for Hackers
The blockbuster game of deception has security holes that let cheaters run wild...
Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help
The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware...
Donald Trump Could Still Launch Nuclear Weapons at Any Time
The president's responsibility for the US nuclear arsenal is a Cold War anachronism. The Trump era shows why it needs reform...
7 Simple Tech Tips to Keep Your Family Safe This Holiday
Does your great-aunt Winifred ask for tech support every year? Even if you aren't traveling this year, send your loved ones this advice to show you care...
A Ransomware Gang Bought Facebook Ads to Troll Its Victim
Covid-19 research hacking, the Pentagon's Photoshop antics, and more of the week's top security news...
The OS Big Sur Launch Might Have Slowed Down Macs Everywhere
The issues affected users who didn't upgrade their software, and other Apple services too...
The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield
An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give up...
The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country
Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring...
The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud
Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument...
An Engineer Gets 9 Years for Stealing $10M From Microsoft
The defendant tried—and failed—to use bitcoin to cover his tracks...
WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It
It's time to do something about those photos and videos automatically saving to your camera roll...
How to Use Apple, Google, and Microsoft's Parental Controls
Each of the big three offers a wealth of options to limit screen time, find lost devices, and more...
Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump has not yet conceded the presidential race, and may not any time soon. But there's no evidence whatsoever of a “stolen” election...
Update iOS Right Now to Fix Some Bad Security Bugs
Plus: Ransomware hits Capcom, the US seizes Iranian domains, and more of the week’s top security news...
Feds Seize $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years before the IRS came knocking...
WhatsApp Is Adding Disappearing Messages—With Some Limits
The popular encrypted messaging app now lets you automatically make chats vanish after a week, but look out for a few caveats...
One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More Privacy
Ballot measures were approved in California to restrict commercial use of user data and in Michigan to require warrants for searches of electronic information...
The FBI Says ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Bought 3D-Printed Gun Parts
A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online...
This Ballot-Count Livestream Is the Only Thing Worth Watching
Take a deep breath and enjoy democracy at work...
Donald Trump Hasn't ‘Already Won’ the Election
Despite the president’s claims of victory, his reelection bid depends on a huge number of votes that have yet to be counted...
At Least Election Day Didn't Melt Down
With most polls closed, the worst-case scenarios about ransomware and misinformation meltdowns have seemingly not come to pass...
Can I Vote Online?
Election Day can be confusing, even if you're locked in on Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's what to know before you go to the polls...
Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
You can lock down your meetings like never before—even if you have to give up a few features to do so...
Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites...
The Wisconsin GOP Lost $2.3 Million in an Email Scam
Trump's website gets hacked, a ransomware group calls it quits, and more of the week's top security news...
A Navy SEAL, a Quadcopter, and a Quest to Save Lives in Combat
On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem...
Ransomware Hits Dozens of Hospitals in an Unprecedented Wave
As Covid-19 infections spike in many parts of the US, malware gangs are wreaking havoc on the health care system...
All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It
From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack...
'Watch Dogs: Legion' Tackles Surveillance Without Humanity
The game envisions a near future full of techno-dystopian surveillance, but it doesn't have much to say about the people it affects...
New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
The feature is convenient, but it can also leak sensitive data, consume bandwidth, and drain batteries. And some sites are worse than others...
A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes
An extortionist has turned a breach of Finland's Vastaamo mental health services provider into a nightmare for victims...
The Russian Hackers Playing 'Chekhov's Gun' With US Targets
Berserk Bear has had plenty of opportunity to cause serious trouble. So why hasn't it yet?...
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here’s how to tidy up...
The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google’s Bug-Hunting Badass
The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes...
Did a Security Researcher Guess Trump’s Twitter Password?
Plus: An Among Us spam attack, China’s favorite vulnerabilities, and more of the week’s top security news...
The US Sanctions Russians for Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware
The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure...
How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
A secret experiment in 2007 proved that hackers could devastate power grid equipment beyond repair—with a file no bigger than a gif...
How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
A report finds 50,000 cases where law enforcement agencies turned to outside firms to bypass the encryption on a mobile device...
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again...
12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election
From targeted misinformation to manipulated data, these are the cybersecurity concerns election officials worry about most...
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
An AI tool that “removes” items of clothing from photos has targeted more than 100,000 women, some of whom appear to be under the age of 18...
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
The Department of Justice has named and charged six men for allegedly carrying out many of the most costly cyberattacks in history...
A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia’s Voter Registration Site
Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule
The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...
Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree
Nice looking website you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone DDoS'd it...
The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago
In an interview with WIRED, Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks...
A Trickbot Assault Shows US Military Hackers' Growing Reach
Despite the operation's short-term effects, it sets new precedents for the scope of Cyber Command's mission...
Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
From surveillance to arrests, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty...
The Man Who Speaks Softly—and Commands a Big Cyber Army
Meet General Paul Nakasone. He reined in chaos at the NSA and taught the US military how to launch pervasive cyberattacks. And he did it all without you noticing...