Category: Wired

Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
16
Sep
2023

Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle

The casino and hotel company MGM Resorts has dealt with widespread system outages and service disruptions at its properties in…

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
13
Sep
2023

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse

“In most of these areas, you already have existing statutes that prohibit the behaviors that we want to continue to…

The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
13
Sep
2023

The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires

The personal data for Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was requested 226 times; President Alberto Fernández’s data was…

China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
12
Sep
2023

China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again

Some evidence suggests the 2021 India-focused hacking campaign and the new power grid breach identified by Symantec were both carried…

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
11
Sep
2023

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous

The United States Environmental Protection Agency blocked its employees from accessing ChatGPT while the US State Department staff in Guinea…

Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
09
Sep
2023

Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare

Eighty-four percent of the brands that researchers studied share or sell this kind of personal data, and only two of…

Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
08
Sep
2023

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker

Company leadership expects to generate more than $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023, it said in an August investor statement….

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
08
Sep
2023

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’

Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns…

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
07
Sep
2023

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs

The United States Department of Treasury and United Kingdom Foreign Office announced today that they have sanctioned 11 people for…

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
07
Sep
2023

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes

For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws…

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
07
Sep
2023

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile

As Meta, the company behind Facebook, continues to develop its generative artificial intelligence tools, you can now request the removal…

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
07
Sep
2023

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key…