Category: Wired

Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
05
Jun
2023

Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human…

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine
05
Jun
2023

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

According to the cross-section of bans provided to New York, which were issued in the days after the Buffalo mass…

AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams
03
Jun
2023

AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams

Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm…

How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
03
Jun
2023

How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox

When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid…

The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
02
Jun
2023

The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online

Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been…

Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
01
Jun
2023

Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own

“The security of iOS, once breached, makes it really challenging to detect these attacks,” says Wardle, who was formerly an…

Apple's iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
31
May
2023

Apple’s iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released major patches this month to fix multiple security flaws already being used in attacks….

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
31
May
2023

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating…

Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US
27
May
2023

Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US

TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy…

Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
25
May
2023

Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye

When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one…

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
25
May
2023

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing

Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts…

China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
24
May
2023

China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears

As state-sponsored hackers working on behalf of Russia, Iran, and North Korea have for years wreaked havoc with disruptive cyberattacks…