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…
Category: Wired
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…
Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning
The literally unprecedented indictment against Donald Trump marks an outright dangerous—and politically fraught—moment for the United States and serves as a reminder of the unparalleled…
Porn ID Laws: Your State or Country May Soon Require Age Verification
For the past three months, anyone who lives in Louisiana and opens up Pornhub has been met with a new prompt. The state’s laws, it…
The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
Last spring, the Costa Rican government suffered a series of ransomware attacks that hobbled critical systems around the country. As imports and exports, health care,…
How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online
Kawakami “was afraid that Nishimura could be arrested by the police,” says Sei, author of the upcoming book The World of 2 Channel. Sei recently interviewed…