A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has still been that…
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With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules leading the way to a…
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s sensitive location data. The data…
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had…
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 of consumer-focused nonprofits urged Chopra…
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 regional municipality, a utility like…
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 protect brands and consumers. Companies…
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 was awarded a $6.9 million…
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 the researchers used in their…
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 away from intense fighting. This…
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 enabling adversaries to cheaply track…
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 to share information—both among agencies…