Category: Wired

Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
23
Oct
2024

Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent

For eight months, the criminal investigator who pioneered cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement technique has, in a bizarre twist…

Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online
22
Oct
2024

Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online

A database containing sensitive, sometimes personal information from the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women was openly…

The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines
22
Oct
2024

The Shitposting Cartoon Dogs Sending Trucks, Drones, and Weapons to Ukraine’s Front Lines

The fundraising drives are organized on Discord, Signal, and Telegram—but not on X, the platform that the NAFO movement has…

ICE's $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
21
Oct
2024

ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review

A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has…

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
21
Oct
2024

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local agencies in August, warning them about…

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI
21
Oct
2024

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI

The reporting requirements are essential for alerting the government to potentially dangerous new capabilities in increasingly powerful AI models, says…

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
19
Oct
2024

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun

And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves….

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
19
Oct
2024

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the…

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare
18
Oct
2024

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare

Then there’s the matter of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), the Army’s futuristic “smart” goggles. Currently based on a…

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
17
Oct
2024

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into…

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes
17
Oct
2024

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

From the ground, northeastern Norway might look like fjord country, peppered with neat red houses and dissected by snowmobile tours…

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
16
Oct
2024

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

“We will continue targeting ChatGPT until the genocide supporter, Tal Broda, is fired and ChatGPT stops having dehumanizing views of…