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What Happens When You Remove a Police-Installed GPS Tracker
The Supreme Court ruled that cops need a warrant to attach a GPS device to your car. But if you find one, can you remove it?...
Iran’s APT33 Hackers Are Targeting Industrial Control Systems
The recent focus on ICS raises the possibility that Iran's APT33 is exploring physically disruptive cyberattacks...
Opinion: Websites Ask for Permissions And Attack Forgiveness
Web pages are increasingly powerful—asking for notifications, webcam access, or location—but this great power comes with great vulnerabilities...
DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You Visit
If a site offers HTTPS, DuckDuckGo's Smarter Encryption will take you there...
How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill
Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it's easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent...
Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops and Phones
Bluetooth scanners are readily available and easy to use—which means that smash-and-grab car break-in might not have been pure chance...
How Iran's Government Shut Off the Internet
After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens...
How to Lock Down Your Health and Fitness Data
Apps like FitBit and Apple Health collect some of the most sensitive data you have. Here's how to control what they can see and what they can do with it...
Hackers Discovered Only After Maxing Out Victim's Cloud Storage
A border privacy win, a suspect Army app, and more of the week's top security news...
146 New Android Bugs, an Audio Porn Streaming Site, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
The Evidence That Links Russia’s Most Brazen Hacking Efforts
From the 2017 French election to the Olympics to NotPetya, the same group's fingerprints have appeared again and again...
146 New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones
The dozens of flaws across 29 Android smartphone makers show just how insecure the devices can be, even brand-new...
Russia Fails to Stop Alleged Hacker From Facing US Charges
The repercussions over custody and extradition of Aleksei Burkov have set off a geopolitical maelstrom...
The Brave Browser Extends Its Payouts to iOS
Nearly four years after Brave proposed paying users to surf the web, that vision is finally coming to the iPhone...
Intel Failed to Fix a Hackable Chip Flaw Despite a Year of Warnings
Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix...
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge
Researchers have identified 11 new vulnerabilities in 5G—with time running out to fix them...
Huge Data Leak Doxes Members of Notorious Neo-Nazi Forum
Apple Mail encryption, Ring doorbell Wi-Fi, and more of the week's top security news...
How Do We Bring Equality to Data Ownership and Usage?
Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change...
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...
What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night
At WIRED25, the NSA's Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones...
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters
The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications...
Why Many People Got Mysterious Valentine’s Day Texts Today
The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US."...
How to Opt Out of the Sites That Sell Your Personal Data
It's much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it's possible...
Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough...
Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess
The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception...
Pixel 1, RIP: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years
The original Google Pixel didn't make the cut for this month's Android security patches...
Scammers Are Exploiting a Firefox Bug to Freeze Your Browser
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out...
Google's Ultra-Secure Chip, a Facebook Facelift, and More
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Anti-Deepfake Law in California Is Far Too Feeble
Opinion: While well intentioned, the law has too many loopholes for malicious actors and puts too little responsibility on platforms...
Google Is Helping Design an Open Source, Ultra-Secure Chip
OpenTitan is a so-called secure enclave based on open source that could shake up hardware security...
The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
For three years, WIRED has tracked the elite and shadowy Russian vanguard of cyberwar...
Report: The Government and Tech Need to Cooperate on AI
It also warns that AI-enhanced national security apparatus like autonomous weapons and surveillance systems will raise ethical questions...
Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home
By sending laser-powered “light commands” to a smart assistant, researchers could force it to unlock cars, open garage doors, and more...
Free Tools Boost 2020 Election Security, but Not Enough
More companies than ever are offering low-cost security services for election bureaus and campaigns. It’s still not clear how much they’ll actually help...
The First BlueKeep Mass Hacking Is Finally Here—but Don't Panic
After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been...
WhatsApp Hack Targeted Officials in More Than 20 Countries
NSO Group exploits, Counter-Strike money laundering, and a Pentagon scam are among the week’s top security news...
Opinion: Don't Let a Tech Slowdown Threaten Our Military
The right software and digital engineering can take military aircraft back to the future...
WhatsApp's Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument
The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle...
How to Keep Your Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Voice Recordings Private
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it...
Russian Hackers Are Still Targeting the Olympics
Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over...
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...
Rudy Giuliani Butt-Dialed a Reporter (Twice!)
A UN phishing attack, Adobe accounts exposed, and more of the week's top security news...
TikTok, Under Scrutiny, Distances Itself From China
Three senators have called for an investigation into the social media app, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance...
How 18 Malware Apps Snuck Into Apple's App Store
Sing it loud: The App Store's not perfect. Especially when it's up against click fraud code this clever...
Why Keybase Doesn't Offer Two Factor Authentication
Keybase exists to keep things safe online. And it doesn't use 2FA to do it...
Pompeo Was Riding High—Until the Ukraine Mess Exploded
The US secretary of state may be a Trump favorite, but the Ukraine scandal appears to threaten Mike Pompeo’s ambitions for higher office...
Can License Plate Readers Really Reduce Crime?
Flock Safety boasts that its cameras caused a dramatic drop in crime in one Georgia county, but experts say it's not so simple...
A Republican Raid, NASA's Venus Plans, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...
Why Republicans Storming a SCIF Puts National Security at Risk
House Republicans barged into a secure facility uninvited Wednesday, creating a host of problems in the process...
In Hong Kong, Which Side Is Technology On?
Both. Yes, authoritarians have co-opted tech. But the story is far from over...