Category: Wired

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
03
Dec
2024

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group…

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
02
Dec
2024

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams

Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether it’s a…

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
02
Dec
2024

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry

Digital advertising is a whopping $700 billion (£530 billion) industry that remains largely unregulated, with few laws in place to…

The US Army's Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
29
Nov
2024

The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On

This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018, Lockheed Martin…

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
26
Nov
2024

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car’s Automated Driving System

Tesla, which disbanded its public relations team in 2021, did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The camera systems…

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
23
Nov
2024

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First

The Oreshnik missile launched Tuesday apparently took off from Russia’s Kapustin Yar rocket base roughly 800 kilometers from Dnipro, well…

Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked
23
Nov
2024

Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked

A joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org uncovered that US companies legally collecting digital ad data are…

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
23
Nov
2024

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever

Ahead of the the 2024 US elections, the US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert and ready…

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
22
Nov
2024

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

Only after the next intrusion, when Volexity managed to get more complete logs of the hackers’ traffic, did its analysts…

Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
21
Nov
2024

Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering

Since roughly 2020, when the earliest pig butchering scams started to emerge, more than 200,000 people have been trafficked and…

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
21
Nov
2024

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

As further evidence of government surveillance insiders moonlighting in the data broker market, the SpyCloud researchers point to a leak…

Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry
20
Nov
2024

Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media. Source link