Category: Wired

Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
01
Jun
2023

Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own

“The security of iOS, once breached, makes it really challenging to detect these attacks,” says Wardle, who was formerly an…

Apple's iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
31
May
2023

Apple’s iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released major patches this month to fix multiple security flaws already being used in attacks….

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
31
May
2023

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating…

Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US
27
May
2023

Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US

TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy…

Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
25
May
2023

Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye

When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one…

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
25
May
2023

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing

Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts…

China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
24
May
2023

China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears

As state-sponsored hackers working on behalf of Russia, Iran, and North Korea have for years wreaked havoc with disruptive cyberattacks…

Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
23
May
2023

Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto

Despite that trend away from dark-web fentanyl sales, four members of the US Congress this week reintroduced a bill called…

There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security
23
May
2023

There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security

As software supply chain attacks have emerged as an everyday threat, where bad actors poison a step in the development…

Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
22
May
2023

Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

Jakubowska, who reviewed the document, says that several countries appear to say they would give police access to people’s encrypted…

Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
22
May
2023

Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism

Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules…

The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
21
May
2023

The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains

At the beginning of May, Google released eight new top-level domains (TLDs)—the suffixes at the end of URLs, like “.com”…