How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code

For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase...

Kostya and Me: How Sam Patten Got Ensnared in Mueller’s Probe

A political consultant crosses paths with Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort, and Cambridge Analytica, then becomes part of the Russia investigation...

How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell

Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong...

DejaBlue: New BlueKeep-Style Bugs Mean You Need to Update Windows Now

Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol continue to plague the web...

Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons

A security researcher has demonstrated how to force everyday commercial speakers to emit harmful sounds...

Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV

Smart TVs continue to look dumber by the day...

Hackers Could Decrypt Your GSM Phone Calls

Researchers have discovered a flaw in the GSM standard used by AT and T-Mobile that would allow hackers to listen in...

A Remote-Start App Exposed Thousands of Cars to Hackers

The bugs could have let an industrious hacker locate cars, unlock them, and start them up from anywhere with an internet connection...

Big Tech Needs to Use Hazardous Materials Warnings

Opinion: Tech users don’t have time to read novel-length terms of service. Give them a danger icon that tells them their personal risk...

Election Systems Are Even More Vulnerable Than We Thought

Black Hat and Defcon are underway in Vegas, WhatsApp flaws allow hackers to alter messages, and more of this week’s top security news...

Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware...

This Tesla Mod Turns a Model S Into a Mobile 'Surveillance Station'

The Surveillance Detection Scout can track license plates and faces near your Tesla—with all the privacy concerns that implies...

Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records

Some kids play in a band after school. Bill Demirkapi hacked two education software giants...

Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking

Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes...

Trump’s Intel Vacancies Put Americans in Danger

Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon...

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...

How Apple Pay Buttons Can Make Websites Less Safe

Apple Pay itself is safe. But the way websites implement it can cause serious problems...

Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty

The company’s sometimes rocky relationship with security researchers just got a whole lot smoother...

How a 10-Year-Old Desk Phone Bug Came Back From the Dead

Avaya patched a problem hackers could exploit in phones. But the bad code never went away...

Hidden Algorithm Flaws Expose Websites to DoS Attacks

Why throw a bunch of junk traffic at a service, when all it takes to stall it out is just a few bytes?...

Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text

You don't even have to click anything...

How AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to 'Unlock' Millions of Phones

One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees...

A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts

One researcher's discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing's cybersecurity...

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...

The Weird, Dark History of 8chan and Its Founder Fredrick Brennan

Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption...

A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose

At this year's Defcon Medical Device Village, hackers will attack real medical devices at a pretend hospital...

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...

The Wrong Way to Talk About the El Paso Shooter's Manifesto

The more oxygen these manifestos get, the wider their messages spread. And no one understands that better than the people posting them...

Apple Contractors Will Stop Listening to Your Siri Recordings—For Now

Facial recognition hits minors, Facebook takes down Saudi accounts, and more security news this week...

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...

Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info

Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras...

'Opt Out' Is Useless. Let People Opt In

It's not so crazy to want Big Tech to ask for your data—and conversations with AI assistants—before they take it...

You'll Get Your Equifax Money. It Just Might Take a While

Despite the FTC pushing people away from an Equifax cash payout, there's a good chance you'll get all $125. Eventually...

Guardian Firewall iOS App Automatically Blocks the Trackers on Your Phone

The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers...

Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections

"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner tells WIRED in an exclusive interview...

John Ratcliffe Is a Dangerous Pick for Director of National Intelligence

The director of national intelligence's main job is to speak truth to power. Trump's nominee, John Ratcliffe, seems destined to do the opposite...

A Hacker Stole Data From 100 Million Capital One Customers

In a criminal complaint, the FBI detailed how a hacker allegedly stole data from 100 million people—and how she got caught...

A Critical Device Hack, China's Social Credit, and More News

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How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong

It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score...

A VxWorks Operating System Bug Exposes 200 Million Critical Devices

VxWorks is designed as a secure, "real-time" operating system for continuously functioning devices, like medical equipment, elevator controllers, or satellite modems...

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."...

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Won't Go to Jail for Old Hacking Crimes

Russian election hacks, Amazon's police partnerships, and more security news this week...

How to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money

A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure it pay ups...

Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data...

Robert Mueller's Work Is Done. Now It's Congress's Turn

In nearly six hours of testimony Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller stuck to the facts...

New York's Revenge Porn Law Is a Flawed Step Forward

All but four states in the US now have a revenge porn law on the books. But advocates say precious few get it right...

Watch Robert Mueller's Testimony Live Right Here

Robert Mueller will testify before Congress Wednesday in two separate hearings. You can watch it right here, but first make sure to manage your expectations...

Before Mueller’s Testimony, Dems Demand More Election Security

Senate Democrats want to remind everyone that US elections are still at risk, and Congress could do more to protect them...

A Preview of Mueller's Testimony, an Electric Ford F-150, and More News

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The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Test in Iran

Last week’s US strike of an Iranian drone is the first reported successful use of the Marines’ new energy weapon...