LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users…
Category: Wired
How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager
Most people don’t use a password manager or two-factor authentication—even people who know it’s a good idea—because installing and managing yet another app just sounds exhausting. Well, if…
Pinduoduo, a Top Chinese Shopping App, Is Laced With Malware
A United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement database WIRED obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the agency has been leaning on…
Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia
The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The…
The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
Just-in-time logistics mean that even short-term cyberattacks can have serious consequences. Hacks that disrupt fertilizer or pesticide production can force farmers to sit out planting seasons. Breaches…
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
When OpenAI released GPT-3 in July 2020, it offered a glimpse of the data used to train the large language model. Millions of pages scraped from…
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
At a location he keeps secret, John Honovich was on his laptop, methodically scouring every link on a website for a conference half a world…
Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
Software supply chain attacks, in which hackers corrupt widely used applications to push their own code to thousands or even millions of machines, have become…
Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser
The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and…
ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from elementary schools, news organizations, and abortion clinics in ways…
‘Vulkan’ Leak Offers a Peek at Russia’s Cyberwar Playbook
Did you hear that Donald Trump got indicted this week? Of course you did. Ridiculous question. The first-ever indictment of a former US president had…
Apple’s iOS 16.4: Security Updates Are Better Than a Goose Emoji
Meanwhile, researchers at Google’s Project Zero have reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems made by Samsung. The four most severe—CVE-2023-24033, CVE-2023-26496, CVE-2023-26497, and CVE-2023-26498—allow internet-to-baseband…