Your Phone Won’t Be the Next Exploding Pager
Amid ongoing violent conflict with Israel, Hezbollah’s digital communications and activities are also under constant barrage from Israeli hackers. In fact, this constant digital assault…
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Walkie-Talkies Explode in New Attack on Hezbollah
With Hezbollah and Lebanon still reeling from a coordinated wave of pager explosions on Tuesday that killed at least 12 people and injured thousands, another…
Did a Chinese University Hacking Competition Target a Real Victim?
Capture the flag hacking contests at security conferences generally serve two purposes: to help participants develop and demonstrate computer hacking and security skills, and to…
The Mystery of Hezbollah’s Deadly Exploding Pagers
This pager runs on two AAA batteries, which, like any battery, could be induced to explode, but likely not with such force and scale as…
Apple’s New Passwords App May Solve Your Login Nightmares
Apple’s latest iPhone software update, iOS 18, arrives today and includes a new app: Passwords. For the first time, Apple is taking your phone’s ability…
Security News This Week: A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
After Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server environment, known as Private Cloud Compute, which…
‘Terrorgram’ Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along
Allison’s commitment to neo-fascism and white supremacy appears to have run deep—“I won’t quit til I’m dead. my only goal in life is to fucking…
Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
The GAZEploit attack consists of two parts, says Zhan, one of the lead researchers. First, the researchers created a way to identify when someone wearing…
Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works
Apple is making every production PCC server build publicly available for inspection so people unaffiliated with Apple can verify that PCC is doing (and not…
What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
But X also makes it clear the onus is on the user to judge the AI’s accuracy. “This is an early version of Grok,” xAI…
Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Even those of you who do everything you can to secure those secrets can find yourself vulnerable—especially if you’re using a YubiKey 5 authentication token.…
The NSA Has a Podcast—Here’s How to Decode It
The spy agency that dared not speak its name is now the Joe Rogan of the SIGINT set. And the pod’s actually worth a listen.…