Category: Wired

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
22
Jul
2024

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who live within range of its 450 intercontinental ballistic missile silos, the…

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
20
Jul
2024

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

The week was particularly chock-full of dramatic security news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform caused massive…

Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
20
Jul
2024

Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the…

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
19
Jul
2024

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

That deeper access also introduces a far higher possibility that security software—and updates to that software—will crash the whole system,…

Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
19
Jul
2024

Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing…

Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
18
Jul
2024

Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of…

The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy
17
Jul
2024

The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy

The Commerce Department could hit a legal snag with its proposal to require cloud companies to verify their customers’ identities…

Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
16
Jul
2024

Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages

A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-terabyte trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump…

US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
15
Jul
2024

US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse

The source adds that Cornyn claims the new rules threaten to grant foreign nationals greater rights than those of criminal…

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
14
Jul
2024

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records

Despite the payment and deletion, some AT&T customers and those who communicated with them may still be at risk, given…

The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
13
Jul
2024

The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach

From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their…

Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
13
Jul
2024

Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach

But that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on…