Category: Wired

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
08
Sep
2023

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’

Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns…

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
07
Sep
2023

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs

The United States Department of Treasury and United Kingdom Foreign Office announced today that they have sanctioned 11 people for…

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
07
Sep
2023

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes

For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws…

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
07
Sep
2023

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile

As Meta, the company behind Facebook, continues to develop its generative artificial intelligence tools, you can now request the removal…

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
07
Sep
2023

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key…

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
06
Sep
2023

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

The researchers found, in fact, that some firms appear to be taking that second option. They point to a July…

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
06
Sep
2023

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in…

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
05
Sep
2023

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

Yveneny Prigozhin’s wartime atrocities propelled the brutal mercenary into the limelight. But Prigozhin—who was once Russian president Vladimir Putin’s chef…

How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
03
Sep
2023

How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe

There’s a constant battle going on between software developers trying to keep their apps and platforms secure, and hackers and…

2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains
02
Sep
2023

2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains

A monthslong WIRED investigation published this week revealed the inner workings of the Trickbot ransomware gang, which has targeted hospitals,…

Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
31
Aug
2023

Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

In December, Apple said that it was killing an effort to design a privacy-preserving iCloud photo-scanning tool for detecting child…

Google Fixes Serious Security Flaws in Chrome and Android
31
Aug
2023

Google Fixes Serious Security Flaws in Chrome and Android

August has ended the summer in style with multiple patches issued by Microsoft, Google Chrome, and its competitor Firefox to…