Category: Wired

27
Dec
2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists

It has become established rhetoric among the political right that suppressing the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was nothing short…

27
Dec
2022

Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach

The human resources, payroll, and benefits management company Sequoia said in disclosures to customers at the beginning of the month…

27
Dec
2022

Lensa AI and ‘Magic Avatars’: What to Know Before Using the App

Has the stale selfie that’s served as your profile picture gone a little too long without a refresh? You’ve likely seen friends…

27
Dec
2022

Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking

Apache had to scramble at the beginning of December 2021 to be ready to release patches for Log4Shell when it…

27
Dec
2022

Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid

We at WIRED have written plenty about the threat that cyberattacks pose to power grids worldwide. But lately, the most…

26
Dec
2022

Why the US Is Primed for Radicalization

“What you find is people are most vulnerable to authoritarianism and extremist impulses when they don’t know what they’re supposed…

26
Dec
2022

Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody

According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files…

26
Dec
2022

Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware

Less than two weeks ago, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI released a joint advisory about…

26
Dec
2022

A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside…

26
Dec
2022

GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities

“It is not very good at detecting weak jammers or jammers on other frequencies,” Walter explains, adding that an aircraft’s…

26
Dec
2022

Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account

Meta says it applies the concepts of “adversarial design” to build systems with the assumption that attackers will try to…

26
Dec
2022

An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, navigation system monitors reported this week that they’ve detected a rise in GPS…