Category: Wired

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
25
Feb
2024

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines…

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
24
Feb
2024

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

While the documents have now been removed from GitHub, where they were first posted, the identity and motivations of the…

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
23
Feb
2024

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

Finding shell casings can be extremely difficult. A Los Angeles Police Department officer not authorized to speak to the media…

Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly
23
Feb
2024

Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly

Turner’s press release notably went further than HPSCI’s letter, pressing US president Joe Biden to personally “declassify all information” concerning…

Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update
21
Feb
2024

Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update

Apple is launching its first post-quantum protections, one of the biggest deployments of the future-resistant encryption technology to date. Billions…

Anne Neuberger, a Top White House Cyber Official, Is Staying Surprisingly Optimistic
21
Feb
2024

Anne Neuberger, a Top White House Cyber Official, Is Staying Surprisingly Optimistic

Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber, tells WIRED about emerging cybersecurity threats—and what the US…

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
20
Feb
2024

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

The third new feature, which is not enabled by default and which Signal recommends mainly for high-risk users, allows you…

The Notorious Lockbit Ransomware Gang Has Been Disrupted by Law Enforcement
20
Feb
2024

The Notorious Lockbit Ransomware Gang Has Been Disrupted by Law Enforcement

For the last four years, the LockBit ransomware group has been on an unrelenting rampage, hacking into thousands of businesses,…

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine's Surface
19
Feb
2024

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface

Oleksandr Kryvtsov had enough. The owner of an agricultural company in Hrakove, near Kharkiv, Kryvtsov found his land littered with…

How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000
17
Feb
2024

How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in…

SpaceX Launched Military Satellites Designed to Track Hypersonic Missiles
17
Feb
2024

SpaceX Launched Military Satellites Designed to Track Hypersonic Missiles

Two prototype satellites for the Missile Defense Agency and four missile-tracking satellites for the US Space Force rode a SpaceX…

Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
17
Feb
2024

Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

While redirecting blame away from Turner and his cohorts, the claim is both false and deceptive, relying on assertions that,…