How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords
These platforms take cues in how they are designed and marketed from legitimate information and ecommerce services. Many markets and forums charge a subscription fee…
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Stop X’s Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets
The fallout from CrowdStrike’s deleterious software update came into full view this week as system administrators and IT staffers scrambled to get digital systems back…
A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them
KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor, revealed that it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who attempted to load malware into the company’s network. KnowBe4 CEO…
Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech
From €142 million to €1 billion ($1.1 billion) a year. The European Commission is pressing the accelerator on investment in weapons and defense technologies. From…
At The 2024 Summer Olympics, AI Is Watching You
“What we’re doing in transforming CCTV cameras into a powerful monitoring tool,” says Matthias Houllier, co-founder of Wintics, one of four French companies that won…
This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations
This is, incidentally, how he plans to fund the operation—the basic version of WebXray will be available to all, but Libert will offer a specialized…
How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter
Lvivteploenergo didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for comment, nor did the SBU. Ukraine’s cybersecurity agency, the State Services for Special Communication and Information Protection, declined…
The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who live within range of its 450 intercontinental ballistic missile silos, the Pentagon has written you off…
The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
The week was particularly chock-full of dramatic security news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform caused massive global service outages and disruptions…
Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon monitoring platform that…
How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
That deeper access also introduces a far higher possibility that security software—and updates to that software—will crash the whole system, says Matthieu Suiche, head of…
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines…