Category: Wired

Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
11
Jul
2024

Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage

When Tigran Gambaryan was first invited in February to meet with the Nigerian government in order to settle a dispute…

Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
11
Jul
2024

Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison

For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When…

Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users
10
Jul
2024

Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users

The password killers known as “passkeys” are now available to users of Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which works to add…

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
10
Jul
2024

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy

That public nature of the criminal transactions is all the more shocking given that Huione Guarantee is operated by Huione…

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
08
Jul
2024

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

The day is slowly turning into night, and the American special operators are growing concerned. They are deployed to a…

Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
06
Jul
2024

Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

Proton, the company behind Proton Mail, launched an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, seeking to compete with the cloud…

The World’s Most Popular 3D-Printed Gun Was Designed by an Aspiring Terrorist
05
Jul
2024

The World’s Most Popular 3D-Printed Gun Was Designed by an Aspiring Terrorist

4chan is ephemeral (posts are routinely culled) and supposedly anonymous (the default name setting for anyone posting is simply “Anonymous”)….

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
04
Jul
2024

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

Yet Google and its hardware partners argue privacy and security are a major focus of the Android AI approach. VP…

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs
03
Jul
2024

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs

Yen says Proton has been internally using the system for the last month and is now ready to roll it…

The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats
02
Jul
2024

The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats

By the time the Senate unanimously confirmed Nate Fick to be America’s cyber ambassador in September 2022, tech diplomacy headaches…

The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common
01
Jul
2024

The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common

On July 20, the United States Commerce Department will ban new sales of popular antivirus software made by Moscow-based Kaspersky…

The US Wants to Integrate the Commercial Space Industry With Its Military to Prevent Cyber Attacks
29
Jun
2024

The US Wants to Integrate the Commercial Space Industry With Its Military to Prevent Cyber Attacks

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative…