Category: Wired
There is a grand tradition at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas of hacking ATMs. Unlocking them with…
When a bad software update from the security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused digital chaos around the world last month, the…
Researchers have long known that they can glean hidden information about the inner workings of a website by measuring the…
Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an…
Smith trawled Reddit and other online sources to find people reporting the scam and the URLs being used, which he…
“I think I’ve created the first laser microphone that’s actually modulated in the radio frequency domain,” Kamkar says. “Once I…
Since the early 1990s, people have used doxing as a toxic way to strike digital revenge—stripping away someone’s anonymity by…
New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows…
“It’s not just that the water goes out, it’s that when the sole wastewater facility in your community is down…
If anything, the military has impinged on CISA’s territory—not the other way around—out of exasperation with the civilian agency’s constrained…
If it seems like there’s suddenly a whole lot more data breaches, you may be right. Part of this apparent…
Databases containing sensitive voter information from multiple counties in Illinois were openly accessible on the internet, revealing 4.6 million records…