Category: Wired

Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
04
Dec
2024

Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking

The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to conduct audits…

She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
04
Dec
2024

She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin

OFAC announced sanctions against the founder, as well as Elena Chirkinyan and Andrej Bradens, who also goes by the surname…

A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
04
Dec
2024

A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections

In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing…

With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
04
Dec
2024

With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’

“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules…

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
03
Dec
2024

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s…

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
03
Dec
2024

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to…

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
03
Dec
2024

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group…

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
02
Dec
2024

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams

Researchers regularly see malicious ads in search results representing themselves as coming from legitimate businesses and organizations. Whether it’s a…

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
02
Dec
2024

The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry

Digital advertising is a whopping $700 billion (£530 billion) industry that remains largely unregulated, with few laws in place to…

The US Army's Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
29
Nov
2024

The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On

This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018, Lockheed Martin…

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
26
Nov
2024

Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car’s Automated Driving System

Tesla, which disbanded its public relations team in 2021, did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The camera systems…

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
23
Nov
2024

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First

The Oreshnik missile launched Tuesday apparently took off from Russia’s Kapustin Yar rocket base roughly 800 kilometers from Dnipro, well…