Category: Wired

Security News This Week: Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court
01
Jul
2023

Security News This Week: Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court

Amid exploding AI usage, the United States Senate is mulling legislation to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, but lawmakers’…

Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
30
Jun
2023

Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws

Summer software updates are coming thick and fast, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft issuing multiple patches for serious security flaws…

Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
29
Jun
2023

Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection

The final element of the complaints claims that Pornhub uses people’s data and “unilaterally assigns sexual preferences to each individual…

How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
28
Jun
2023

How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You

How do you tell that your plane ticket is real? If it checks out on the airline’s website, you’re good…

The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
27
Jun
2023

The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early…

The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
26
Jun
2023

The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That

While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees…

5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
25
Jun
2023

5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure

The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for…

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days
24
Jun
2023

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days

Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability…

Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
23
Jun
2023

Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram

Hundreds of messages from the data that contained pricing information indicate that the average cost of purchasing a purported pack…

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
22
Jun
2023

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets

Documents obtained by the ACLU show devices of this type—the police use of which is authorized by the Federal Communications…

How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers
21
Jun
2023

How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers

Privacy4Cars results say it is unclear how Honda uses biometric data, which is information about your body. Honda’s Martin says…

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
18
Jun
2023

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’

Artificial intelligence is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago you wouldn’t often hear…