Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
We at WIRED have written plenty about the threat that cyberattacks pose to power grids worldwide. But lately, the most...
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Why the US Is Primed for Radicalization
“What you find is people are most vulnerable to authoritarianism and extremist impulses when they don’t know what they’re supposed...
Read more →Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody
According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files...
Read more →Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware
Less than two weeks ago, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI released a joint advisory about...
Read more →A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside...
Read more →GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities
“It is not very good at detecting weak jammers or jammers on other frequencies,” Walter explains, adding that an aircraft’s...
Read more →Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account
Meta says it applies the concepts of “adversarial design” to build systems with the assumption that attackers will try to...
Read more →An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, navigation system monitors reported this week that they’ve detected a rise in GPS...
Read more →Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers
I woke up Friday morning to the message I’d been expecting: “Your account, @Justin_Ling has been locked for violating the Twitter...
Read more →Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy
As internet shutdowns, platform blocking, and content filtering become increasingly common levers for authoritarian control around the world, Iran has...
Read more →The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022
Russian soldiers poured into Ukraine, accompanied by a wave of cyberattacks across the country. A major cryptocurrency exchange imploded and...
Read more →What Is Flipper Zero? The Hacker Tool Going Viral on TikTok, Explained
Across the US, countless buildings, from government offices to your next hotel room door, are protected by RFID-controlled locks. On...
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