The Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Alarms (2023)
If you’re a frequent camper or hiker, or are otherwise away from cell service often, most of these products aren’t going to help you in…
Category: Wired
The Unrelenting Menace of the LockBit Ransomware Gang
LockBit emerged at the end of 2019, first calling itself “ABCD ransomware.” Since then, it has grown rapidly. The group is a “ransomware-as-a-service” operation, meaning…
India’s Public Education App Exposed Millions of Students’ Data
A security lapse in an app operated by India’s Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a…
How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System
Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption…
The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About
“Ordinary people’s private financial records are being siphoned indiscriminately into a massive database, with access given to virtually any cop who wants it,” Nathan Freed…
T-Mobile’s New Data Breach Shows Its $150 Million Security Investment Isn’t Cutting It
Yesterday, mobile giant T-Mobile said that it suffered a data breach beginning on November 26 that impacts 37 million current customers on both prepaid and…
The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United States is the fear of…
Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts
The Iranian government’s latest attempts in recent months to stifle protests through internet blackouts, digital curfews, and content blocking have presented a particularly extreme example…
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
“It’s quite genius because the minute the ad disappears, your attack stops, which means that you’re not going to be found easily,” Habiby explains. The…
Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
At 4 am one morning in October of last year, animal rights activist Raven Deerbrook sat on a bed in a cheap hotel in East…
All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It
When I turned on personalized ads (I had previously turned them off), Apple’s ad targeting information says I am included in segments based on my…
Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, was publicly exposing sensitive data…