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US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers
[ad_1] Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another…
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A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets
[ad_1] The United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to satellite internet infrastructure used in a scam compound in Myanmar.…
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Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
[ad_1] The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the…
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Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials
[ad_1] In a stunning new study, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed this week that satellites are leaking a…
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‘Happy Gilmore’ Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO Group
[ad_1] Research published this week indicates that North Korean scammers are trying to trick US companies into hiring them for architectural design work, using…
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Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure
[ad_1] Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace…
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An App Used to Dox Charlie Kirk Critics Doxed Its Own Users Instead
[ad_1] New research released this week shows that over the past few years the US Department of Homeland Security has collected DNA data of…
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A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages
[ad_1] New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related…
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ICE Has Spyware Now
[ad_1] The Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive…
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DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims
[ad_1] As students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a…
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Florida Man Accused of Hacking Disney World Menus, Changing Font to Wingdings
[ad_1] With just days to go until the 2024 presidential election in the United States, WIRED reported on documents that revealed US government assessments…
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Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
[ad_1] The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already included…
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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
[ad_1] And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines…
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The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
[ad_1] Pig butchering, the crypto-based scammer scourge that has pulled in an estimated $75 billion from victims globally, is spreading beyond its roots in…
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The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password Changes
[ad_1] Researchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock doors, honk horns, and even…
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Iranian Hackers Tried to Give Hacked Trump Campaign Emails to Dems
[ad_1] The week was dominated by news that thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices were exploding across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday in…
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A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
[ad_1] After Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server environment, known as Private Cloud…
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Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
[ad_1] Even those of you who do everything you can to secure those secrets can find yourself vulnerable—especially if you’re using a YubiKey 5…
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Taylor Swift Concert Terror Plot Was Thwarted by Key CIA Tip
[ad_1] Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the communication app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday as part of an investigation into…
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The US Navy Has Run Out of Pants
[ad_1] The United States Defense Department has ideas about a dramatic strategy for defending Taiwan against a Chinese military offensive that would involve deploying…