Category: Wired

The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
13
Apr
2023

The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started

As a result, jailbreak authors have become more creative. The most prominent jailbreak was DAN, where ChatGPT was told to pretend…

Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations
12
Apr
2023

Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations

the United States government has been scrambling this week thanks to a leak of sensitive Pentagon documents that include an…

LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
12
Apr
2023

LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account

In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new…

How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager
11
Apr
2023

How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager

Most people don’t use a password manager or two-factor authentication—even people who know it’s a good idea—because installing and managing yet another app…

Pinduoduo, a Top Chinese Shopping App, Is Laced With Malware
08
Apr
2023

Pinduoduo, a Top Chinese Shopping App, Is Laced With Malware

A United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement database WIRED obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the…

Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia
07
Apr
2023

Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia

The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale…

The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
06
Apr
2023

The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain

Just-in-time logistics mean that even short-term cyberattacks can have serious consequences. Hacks that disrupt fertilizer or pesticide production can force farmers to…

ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
04
Apr
2023

ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem

When OpenAI released GPT-3 in July 2020, it offered a glimpse of the data used to train the large language model….

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
04
Apr
2023

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

At a location he keeps secret, John Honovich was on his laptop, methodically scouring every link on a website for…

Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
03
Apr
2023

Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms

Software supply chain attacks, in which hackers corrupt widely used applications to push their own code to thousands or even…

Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser
03
Apr
2023

Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser

The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it…

ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics
03
Apr
2023

ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from elementary schools, news organizations,…