OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades. She primarily posts on OnlyFans these days,…
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
Voting was already underway when the ICE agents arrived at a polling site in Syracuse, New York, during the state’s primaries in June. The agents…
Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware—was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new…
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek…
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what…
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating…
Security News This Week: LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again
A WIRED investigation this week offers insight into a predictive policing program in Bristol, England that has involved 23 separate models over more than a…
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
A data exposure at Dialog, the private events group cofounded by Peter Thiel, exposed personal information of multiple US national security personnel. These include an…
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
“I don’t think an AI model should have that kind of power over people’s lives,” Pegram says. Photograph: Alice Zoo In response to WIRED’s public…
Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
Dialog, the invite-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members and past event participants last week that a database containing their personal information had been…
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
As fears about AI hacking capabilities grow, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, including an improved version of its limited-access security-specialized model…