Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
When the Egyptian government shut down the internet in 2011 to give itself cover to crush a popular protest movement, it was Nora Younis who…
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Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust
Six days before Christmas, the US Department of Justice loudly announced a win in the ongoing fight against the scourge of ransomware: An FBI-led, international…
The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
Mark Nelson took the call in an immigration detention center—a place that, to him, felt just like prison. It had the same prison windows, the…
How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as…
How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security
It remains unclear how many of Warner’s colleagues agree with him. But when WIRED surveyed the other 23 Republican secretaries who oversee elections in their…
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting face recognition…
A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
While the documents have now been removed from GitHub, where they were first posted, the identity and motivations of the person, or people, who leaked…
Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
Finding shell casings can be extremely difficult. A Los Angeles Police Department officer not authorized to speak to the media tells WIRED they’ve spent “hours”…
Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly
Turner’s press release notably went further than HPSCI’s letter, pressing US president Joe Biden to personally “declassify all information” concerning the threat. The next day,…
Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update
Apple is launching its first post-quantum protections, one of the biggest deployments of the future-resistant encryption technology to date. Billions of medical records, financial transactions,…
Anne Neuberger, a Top White House Cyber Official, Is Staying Surprisingly Optimistic
Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber, tells WIRED about emerging cybersecurity threats—and what the US plans to do about them.…
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
The third new feature, which is not enabled by default and which Signal recommends mainly for high-risk users, allows you to turn off not just…