Category: Wired

Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
06
Jan
2023

Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You

After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now…

January 6 Report: 11 Details You May Have Missed
06
Jan
2023

January 6 Report: 11 Details You May Have Missed

To put a fine point on it: The Secret Service agents surrounding the Vice President believed they were about to…

Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers' USB Infections
06
Jan
2023

Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of…

WhatsApp Launches Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship
05
Jan
2023

WhatsApp Launches Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

The company says it started putting the capability for proxies to be used in WhatsApp in the final few months…

Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
04
Jan
2023

Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?

For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom…

What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
02
Jan
2023

What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?

Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with…

31
Dec
2022

Update Android Right Now to Fix a Scary Remote-Execution Flaw

The holiday season is almost over, but security patches are still continuing to arrive thick and fast in December. The…

The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key
30
Dec
2022

The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key

In August,  the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was one of hundreds of targets in a massive criminal phishing spree that…

29
Dec
2022

The Worst Hacks of 2022

With the pandemic evolving into an amorphous new phase and political polarization on the rise around the world, 2022 was…

28
Dec
2022

LastPass Data Breach: It’s Time to Ditch This Password Manager

This means that LastPass users should go through their vaults and take extra steps to protect themselves—including changing all of…

28
Dec
2022

Russia’s Cyberwar Foreshadowed Deadly Attacks on Civilians

But for anyone involved in fending off Russia’s cyberattacks on Ukraine over the past eight years, Russia’s preference for civilian…

27
Dec
2022

Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever

During its brutal war in Ukraine, Russian troops have burnt cities to the ground, raped and tortured civilians, and committed scores of potential…