Category: Wired

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes
08
Aug
2024

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

“I think I’ve created the first laser microphone that’s actually modulated in the radio frequency domain,” Kamkar says. “Once I…

Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit
08
Aug
2024

Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit

Since the early 1990s, people have used doxing as a toxic way to strike digital revenge—stripping away someone’s anonymity by…

A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits
07
Aug
2024

A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits

New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows…

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
06
Aug
2024

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

“It’s not just that the water goes out, it’s that when the sole wastewater facility in your community is down…

How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk
05
Aug
2024

How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk

If anything, the military has impinged on CISA’s territory—not the other way around—out of exasperation with the civilian agency’s constrained…

US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap
03
Aug
2024

US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

If it seems like there’s suddenly a whole lot more data breaches, you may be right. Part of this apparent…

Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases
02
Aug
2024

Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Databases containing sensitive voter information from multiple counties in Illinois were openly accessible on the internet, revealing 4.6 million records…

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
01
Aug
2024

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

Listing the Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles as a lasting influence, Butcher also disclosed the nature of…

A $500 Open-Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers
01
Aug
2024

A $500 Open-Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers

Beaumont describes the RayV Lite as part of a larger trend she calls the “domestication of tooling”: Devices like the…

Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?
31
Jul
2024

Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

Open AI says this data is used to train the AI model and improve its responses, but the terms allow…

A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
30
Jul
2024

A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security

Congress is moving closer to putting US election technology under a stricter cybersecurity microscope. Embedded inside this year’s Intelligence Authorization…

Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics
29
Jul
2024

Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics

Long-distance internet cables in France have been cut in an act of sabotage, causing disruption to internet services across the…