Category: Wired

SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics
08
May
2023

SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics

In its early years, SafeGraph sold direct access to individualized location traces tied to device IDs. SafeGraph has historically denied any…

Your Twitter Feed Sucks Now. These Free Add-Ons Can Help
07
May
2023

Your Twitter Feed Sucks Now. These Free Add-Ons Can Help

The first is to make sure you’re using the Following tab instead of For You. This tab is just tweets…

Russian ‘Ghost Ships’ Identified Near the Nord Stream Blasts
06
May
2023

Russian ‘Ghost Ships’ Identified Near the Nord Stream Blasts

In December 2020, security giant Mandiant revealed it had been hacked. Its disclosure was the first public sign of the SolarWinds…

Doctors Behind Mifepristone Ban Called ‘Christians’ a Top Threat
05
May
2023

Doctors Behind Mifepristone Ban Called ‘Christians’ a Top Threat

In a declaration in federal court in 2021, Quentin Van Meter, the president of the American College of Pediatricians, described…

Meta Moves to Counter New Malware and Repeat Account Takeovers
03
May
2023

Meta Moves to Counter New Malware and Repeat Account Takeovers

The social media giant Meta warned today that it sees many malware actors spreading their attack infrastructure across multiple platforms,…

Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts
03
May
2023

Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts

Google is announcing a major effort to let its personal account holders log in with the password replacement known as…

American College of Pediatricians Leak Exposes 10,000 Confidential Files
02
May
2023

American College of Pediatricians Leak Exposes 10,000 Confidential Files

While the material is not expressly religious, it is clearly aimed at painting same-sex marriage as aberrant and immoral behavior….

With 288 Arrests, Feds Reveal a Widening Dragnet of Dark-Web Busts
02
May
2023

With 288 Arrests, Feds Reveal a Widening Dragnet of Dark-Web Busts

A decade ago, US law enforcement was content to swat down a dark-web black market for drugs and send its…

SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
02
May
2023

SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack

But they had been at it only 24 hours when they found the passage they’d been looking for: a single…

The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks
01
May
2023

The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks

Lawmakers remain perplexed over how all these classified documents keep getting out, in part because, at the Capitol, sensitive documents…

Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Fixed Zero-Day Security Flaws
30
Apr
2023

Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Fixed Zero-Day Security Flaws

Tech giants Apple, Microsoft, and Google each fixed major security flaws in April, many of which were already being used…

The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach
29
Apr
2023

The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach

Ransomware gangs have long sought pain points where their extortion demands have the greatest leverage. Now an investigation from NBC…