Category: Wired

Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
15
Jul
2023

Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram

IPVM disputes this allegation and says it promptly contacted the FBI upon discovering the crimes. A murdered Russian submarine captain…

FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
14
Jul
2023

FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress

The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the…

How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom
12
Jul
2023

How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom

But exactly how such a sensitive key, allowing such broad access, could be stolen in the first place remains unknown….

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
12
Jul
2023

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again

Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the…

Silk Road’s Second-in-Command, Variety Jones, Gets 20 Years in Prison
11
Jul
2023

Silk Road’s Second-in-Command, Variety Jones, Gets 20 Years in Prison

Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a…

How to Use Discord’s Family Center With Your Teens
11
Jul
2023

How to Use Discord’s Family Center With Your Teens

Discord started in 2015 as a communication platform for gamers. It’s now a sprawling hub of active servers where users…

The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
10
Jul
2023

The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers

Most evidence for RTCC effectiveness, however, is anecdotal, and there is a real lack of studies into how effective they…

Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands
08
Jul
2023

Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands

When Yevgeny Prighozin, the head of the notorious mercenary army known as the Wagner Group, staged an aborted coup against…

How Threads' Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter's (and Its Rivals')
07
Jul
2023

How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)

Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when…

Don't Join Threads—Make Meta's Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
06
Jul
2023

Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You

As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the…

US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
05
Jul
2023

US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It

The National Defense Authorization Act now includes language that would forbid government entities from buying Americans’ search histories, location data,…

EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk
05
Jul
2023

EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk

Such cracks could conceivably permit hackers to access vehicle data or consumers’ credit card information, says Ken Munro, a co-founder…