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Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet

By Lily Hay Newman — February 2nd 2023 at 22:07
Accidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer's next moves. But restrictions on account sharing are still coming soon.
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A Link to News Site Meduza Can (Technically) Land You in Russian Prison

By Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts — January 28th 2023 at 14:00
Plus: Hive ransomware gang gets knocked offline, FBI confirms North Korea stole $100 million, and more.
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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges

By Andy Greenberg — January 26th 2023 at 17:00
The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency.
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Flaw in Diksha App Exposed the Data of Millions of Indian Students

By Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra — January 23rd 2023 at 12:00
A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
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The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts — January 21st 2023 at 14:00
Plus: A leaked US “no fly” list, the SCOTUS leaker slips investigators, and PayPal gets stuffed.
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T-Mobile's New Data Breach Shows Its $150 Million Security Investment Isn't Cutting It

By Lily Hay Newman — January 20th 2023 at 23:13
The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.
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The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism

By Thor Benson — January 20th 2023 at 15:00
Research shows that relatively few people exist in perfectly sealed-off media bubbles—but they’re still having an outsize impact on US politics.
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Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts

By Lily Hay Newman — January 20th 2023 at 14:00
New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.
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A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones

By Matt Burgess — January 19th 2023 at 14:30
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered.
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers

By Andy Greenberg — January 18th 2023 at 16:00
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
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Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail

By Lily Hay Newman — January 14th 2023 at 14:00
Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more.
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A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects

By Dhruv Mehrotra — January 11th 2023 at 14:12
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
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A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet

By Lily Hay Newman — January 10th 2023 at 18:41
More than 120 models of Siemens' S7-1500 PLCs contain a serious vulnerability—and no fix is on the way.
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Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository

By Matt Burgess — January 7th 2023 at 14:00
Plus: Russian spies uncovered in Europe, face recognition leads to another wrongful arrest, a new porn ID law, and more.
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Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers' USB Infections

By Andy Greenberg — January 5th 2023 at 20:01
The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
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WhatsApp Launches a Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

By Matt Burgess — January 5th 2023 at 15:59
Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
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Update Android Right Now to Fix a Scary Remote-Execution Flaw

By Kate O'Flaherty — December 31st 2022 at 12:00
Plus: Patches for Apple iOS 16, Google Chrome, Windows 10, and more.
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LastPass Data Breach: It’s Time to Ditch This Password Manager

By Lily Hay Newman — December 28th 2022 at 19:53
The password manager’s most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves.
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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2022

By WIRED Staff — December 26th 2022 at 12:00
From SBF to the GRU, these were the most disruptive forces of online chaos this year.
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Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme

By WIRED Staff — December 24th 2022 at 14:00
Plus: An offensive US hacking operation, swatters hacking Ring cameras, a Netflix password-sharing crackdown, and more.
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Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy

By Lily Hay Newman — December 21st 2022 at 13:00
A new US State Department assessment highlights the stark economic toll of Tehran’s recent shutdowns and platform control.
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An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire

By Lily Hay Newman — December 17th 2022 at 14:00
Plus: An FBI platform got hacked, an ex-Twitter employee is sentenced for espionage, malicious Windows 10 installers circulate in Ukraine, and more.
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Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account

By Lily Hay Newman — December 15th 2022 at 13:00
How do you keep Facebook easy to use without being trivial to exploit? The company is trying to chart a middle ground.
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Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware

By Lily Hay Newman — December 13th 2022 at 21:28
The company has taken measures to mitigate the risks, but security researchers warn of a broader threat.
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Hackers Planted Files to Frame Indian Priest Who Died in Custody

By Andy Greenberg — December 13th 2022 at 14:49
And new evidence suggests those hackers may have collaborated with the police who investigated him.
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Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid

By Andy Greenberg — December 10th 2022 at 14:00
Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more.
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Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach

By Lily Hay Newman — December 8th 2022 at 13:00
The company, which works with hundreds of startups, said it detected unauthorized access to personal data, including Social Security numbers.
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Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups

By Lily Hay Newman — December 7th 2022 at 18:00
The company will also soon support the use of physical authentication keys with Apple ID, and is adding contact verification for iMessage in 2023.
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Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars

By Matt Burgess — December 7th 2022 at 17:01
On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities.
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China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters

By Dhruv Mehrotra — December 3rd 2022 at 14:00
Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year.
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Android Phone Makers’ Encryption Keys Stolen and Used in Malware

By Lily Hay Newman — December 2nd 2022 at 19:19
Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework

By Lily Hay Newman — November 30th 2022 at 20:42
The Heliconia hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers.
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A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet

By Mark Harris — November 28th 2022 at 12:00
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
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A Destabilizing Hack-and-Leak Operation Hits Moldova

By Lily Hay Newman — November 19th 2022 at 14:00
Plus: Google’s location snooping ends in a $391 million settlement, Russian code sneaks into US government apps, and the World Cup apps set off alarms.
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Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down

By Lily Hay Newman — November 15th 2022 at 01:08
Problems with the important security feature may be some of the first signs that Elon Musk’s social network is fraying at the edges.
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Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode

By Dhruv Mehrotra — November 12th 2022 at 14:00
Plus: US midterms survive disinformation efforts, the government names the alleged Lockbit ransomware attacker, and the Powerball drawing hits a security snag.
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‘Dark Ships’ Emerge From the Shadows of the Nord Stream Mystery

By Matt Burgess — November 11th 2022 at 12:00
Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.
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Russia’s Sway Over Criminal Ransomware Gangs Is Coming Into Focus

By Lily Hay Newman — November 10th 2022 at 19:40
Questions about the Kremlin’s relationships with these groups remain. But researchers are finally getting some answers.
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Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers

By Matt Burgess — November 10th 2022 at 16:25
Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.
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Russia’s New Cyberwarfare in Ukraine Is Fast, Dirty, and Relentless

By Andy Greenberg — November 10th 2022 at 15:15
Security researchers see updated tactics and tools—and a tempo change—in the cyberattacks Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency is inflicting on Ukraine.
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IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

By Andy Greenberg — November 7th 2022 at 19:57
A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards.
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TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data

By Lily Hay Newman, Andrew Couts — November 5th 2022 at 13:00
Plus: Liz Truss’ phone-hacking trouble, Cash App’s sex-trafficking problem, and the rising cost of ransomware.
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Apple MacOS Ventura Bug Breaks Third-Party Security Tools

By Lily Hay Newman — October 26th 2022 at 22:21
Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way.
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A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly

By Andy Greenberg — October 26th 2022 at 14:00
The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary.
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TikTok’s Security Threat Comes Into Focus

By Lily Hay Newman — October 22nd 2022 at 13:00
Plus: A Microsoft cloud leak exposed potential customers, new IoT security labels come to the US, and details emerge about Trump’s document stash.
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The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles

By Masha Borak — October 17th 2022 at 08:00
Custodians of the crowdsourced encyclopedia are charged with protecting it from state-sponsored manipulators. A new study reveals how.
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How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android

By David Nield — October 16th 2022 at 11:00
Google wants to make your digital life—in its ecosystem, anyway—passwordless and more secure.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bails on Starlink Funding for Ukraine

By Andrew Couts — October 15th 2022 at 13:00
Plus: Hackers hit the Mormon Church, Signal plans to ditch SMS for Android, and a Fat Bear election erupts in scandal.
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The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect

By Chris Stokel-Walker — October 13th 2022 at 16:33
The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?
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Celsius Exchange Data Dump Is a Gift to Crypto Sleuths—and Thieves

By Andy Greenberg — October 13th 2022 at 11:00
By releasing half a million users’ transactions in a bankruptcy court filing, the company has opened a vast breach in its users’ financial privacy.
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Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Pack New Android VPN and Tensor G2, Titan M2 Chips

By Lily Hay Newman — October 11th 2022 at 19:26
The company says it hardened the security of its new flagship phones—and plans to release a built-in Android VPN.
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Binance Hackers Minted $569M in Crypto—Then It Got Complicated

By Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg — October 8th 2022 at 13:00
Plus: The US warns of a mysterious military contractor breach, a "poisoned" version of the Tor Browser is tracking Chinese users, and more.
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Microsoft Exchange Server Has a Zero-Day Problem

By Lily Hay Newman, Dhruv Mehrotra — October 1st 2022 at 13:00
Plus: CIA failures allegedly got US informants killed, a former NSA worker is charged under the Espionage Act, and more.
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The Challenge of Cracking Iran’s Internet Blockade

By Lily Hay Newman — September 30th 2022 at 21:16
People around the world are rallying to subvert Iran's internet shutdown, but actually pulling it off is proving difficult and risky.
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Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying

By Andy Greenberg — September 29th 2022 at 13:00
For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.
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The Race to Find the Nord Stream Saboteurs

By Matt Burgess — September 28th 2022 at 20:00
Damage to the pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany is being treated as deliberate. Finding out what happened may not be straightforward.
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Cloudflare Takes a Stab at a Captcha That Doesn’t Suck

By Lily Hay Newman — September 28th 2022 at 13:05
The internet infrastructure company has an alternative tool to check whether you’re human—and it doesn’t force you to pick out buses in tiny boxes.
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Child Predators Mine Twitch to Prey on Kids

By Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess — September 24th 2022 at 13:00
Plus: A leaked trove illuminates Russia’s internet regulator, a report finds Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinian rights, and more.
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Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms

By Andy Greenberg — September 23rd 2022 at 16:52
New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.
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A New Linux Tool Aims to Guard Against Supply Chain Attacks

By Lily Hay Newman — September 22nd 2022 at 14:46
Security firm Chainguard has created a simple, open source way for organizations to defend the cloud against some of the most insidious attacks.
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