Category: Wired

A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
| WIRED
12
Jun
2023

A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians | WIRED

On the evening of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based news portal The Fourth reported that a Telegram bot in…

An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
12
Jun
2023

An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance

Molly Greene, The Appeal’s strategy and legal director, calls the censorship alarming. “It’s incredibly concerning to hear readers say they…

Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
11
Jun
2023

Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate

The conditions inside the Fulton County Jail system are dire. Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are…

9 Years After the Mt. Gox Hack, Feds Indict Alleged Culprits
10
Jun
2023

9 Years After the Mt. Gox Hack, Feds Indict Alleged Culprits

Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week included an array of announcements about operating system releases and, of course, the company’s…

The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
08
Jun
2023

The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea

Over the past decade, there has been an increased number of digital devices in North Korea. Around 50 to 80 percent…

The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines
07
Jun
2023

The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines

The idea for the UT-Austin project emerged from discussions in CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group of experts from the…

Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM
05
Jun
2023

Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM

In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child…

Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
05
Jun
2023

Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human…

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine
05
Jun
2023

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

According to the cross-section of bans provided to New York, which were issued in the days after the Buffalo mass…

AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams
03
Jun
2023

AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams

Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm…

How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
03
Jun
2023

How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox

When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid…

The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
02
Jun
2023

The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online

Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been…