Geofence Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional—but That’s Not the End of It
The 2024 US presidential election is entering its final stretch, which means state-backed hackers are slipping out of the shadows to meddle in their own…
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The Slow-Burn Nightmare of the National Public Data Breach
Data breaches are a seemingly endless scourge with no simple answer, but the breach in recent months of the background-check service National Public Data illustrates…
Nearly All Google Pixel Phones Exposed by Unpatched Flaw in Hidden Android App
Google’s flagship Pixel smartphone line touts security as a centerpiece feature, offering guaranteed software updates for seven years and running stock Android that’s meant to…
A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says
When Donald Trump’s presidential campaign publicly stated last week that it had been successfully targeted by Iranian hackers, the news may have initially seemed like…
Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable
Thousands of electronic lockers found in gyms, offices, and schools could be vulnerable to attacks by criminals using cheap hacking tools to access administrator keys,…
Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival’s Wireless Shifters
Exactly how the patch will be deployed to customers isn’t quite clear either. The company writes that “riders can perform a firmware update on the…
Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
If you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online. Since the fall of 2021, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi has been…
The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
The night before Cecil’s Defcon talk, Maselewski wrote in a final email to WIRED that he believes those alleging that he cheated are using faulty…
Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look
It’s probably been a while since anyone thought about Apple’s router and network storage combo called Time Capsule. Released in 2008 and discontinued in 2018,…
Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
Demand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the need for processing…
How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards
Finally, HID says that “to its knowledge,” none of its encoder keys have leaked or been distributed publicly, and “none of these issues have been…
‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
In a background statement to WIRED, AMD emphasized the difficulty of exploiting Sinkclose: To take advantage of the vulnerability, a hacker has to already possess…