Here’s What’s in the DOJ’s Epstein File Release—and What’s Missing
Much of the imagery is familiar from previous releases, and includes things like a photo of a stuffed tiger, a photo of a framed Times…
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ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
As the White House pushes to intensify internal leak investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is quietly renewing a cybersecurity contract that governs how employee activity…
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily…
Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach
US Customs and Border Protection is quietly doubling down on a surveillance strategy built around human-portable drones, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED.…
Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks
Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years. This follows more than a decade…
AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
Two people allegedly linked to China’s infamous Salt Typhoon espionage hacking group seem to have previously received training through Cisco’s prominent, long-running networking academy. Meanwhile,…
Warnings Mount in Congress Over Expanded US Wiretap Powers
“The commercial landlords of the buildings where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day can be forced to assist the government with…
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
When a privacy specialist at the legal response operations center of Charter Communications received an emergency data request via email on September 4 from Officer…
The US Won’t Sanction China for Salt Typhoon Hacking
An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which…
2 Men Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco ‘Academy’
To try to determine the probability of those name repetitions being a coincidence, Cary checked two databases of Chinese names and consulted with Yi Fuxian,…
A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps
For the past few months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has engaged in a sprawling and extremely public investigation of disgraced financier and…
Security News This Week: Oh Crap, Kohler’s Toilet Cameras Aren’t Really End-to-End Encrypted
An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which…