Category: Wired

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions
15
Oct
2024

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and…

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
15
Oct
2024

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have…

The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
14
Oct
2024

The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over

The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the last two years, developed by the tech industry association known…

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
12
Oct
2024

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs…

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
12
Oct
2024

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters

The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the…

A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
12
Oct
2024

A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines

The newly discovered toolkit is composed of many different building blocks, written in multiple languages and capabilities. The overall goal…

Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
10
Oct
2024

Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users

An illicit JavaScript popup on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data…

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
09
Oct
2024

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail

In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with…

What Google's U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
08
Oct
2024

What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy

The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services…

Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
05
Oct
2024

Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years

Other discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes,…

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
05
Oct
2024

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone

Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond…

How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice
04
Oct
2024

How This Video Game Controller Became the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

In a future conflict, American troops will direct the newest war machines not with sprawling control panels or sci-fi-inspired touchscreens,…