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☐ ☆ ✇ WIRED

These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes

By Matt Burgess — May 3rd 2024 at 09:00
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
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The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics

By Jordan Pearson — May 2nd 2024 at 15:24
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry

By Justin Ling — May 2nd 2024 at 06:00
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
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The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better Cybersecurity

By Eric Geller — May 1st 2024 at 16:01
The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.
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A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

By Andy Greenberg — May 1st 2024 at 13:00
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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A Basic Guide to AFL QEMU

By /u/cy1337 — April 30th 2024 at 23:39

This tutorial gives an example showing how to fuzz a function out of a compiled binary using AFL's QEMU mode.

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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

By Emily Mullin — April 30th 2024 at 19:13
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks

By Matt Burgess — April 30th 2024 at 17:16
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more.
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The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios

By Eric Geller — April 30th 2024 at 14:00
President Joe Biden has updated the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change.
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School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant

By Matt Burgess — April 27th 2024 at 10:30
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program.
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Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes

By Stephen Clark, Ars Technica — April 27th 2024 at 10:00
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
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'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

By Andy Greenberg — April 24th 2024 at 16:00
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
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5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More

By Scott Gilbertson — April 24th 2024 at 13:30
It won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but a virtual private network can make you a less tempting target for hackers.
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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire

By Max Blaisdell, Jim Daley — April 24th 2024 at 10:00
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
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Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak

By Andy Greenberg — April 23rd 2024 at 03:55
The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.
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The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers

By Dell Cameron — April 22nd 2024 at 16:59
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
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North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

By Matt Burgess — April 22nd 2024 at 07:00
Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.
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AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts — April 20th 2024 at 10:00
Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.
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