How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features

Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.

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How Liberals Amped Up a Parkland Shooting Conspiracy Theory

A fake story about a Parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream.

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https://www.wired.com/story/how-liberals-amped-up-a-parkland-shooting-conspiracy-theory

Russia's Olympics Hack Was the Country's Latest False Flag Attack

The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.

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https://www.wired.com/story/russia-false-flag-hacks

The US v. Microsoft Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications for Data

The United States high court will decide whether a US warrant extends to digital data stored overseas.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-vs-microsoft-supreme-court-case-data

Replay Sessions From Mixpanel and Others Have Recorded Passwords

Analytics services are unintentionally collecting a mass of passwords and other sensitive data, new research shows.

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https://www.wired.com/story/covert-replay-sessions-harvesting-passwords

The Problem with Cryptojacking

Jackers pick so many pockets at once that the cost per victim is actually minimal. What’s more, browser-based mining isn’t all bad. So what gives?

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https://www.wired.com/story/the-problem-with-cryptojacking

Democratic Rebuttal Memo: 5 Key Takeaways

House Democrats released a 10-page memo Saturday that shows just how misleading the original #ReleaseTheMemo campaign was.

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https://www.wired.com/story/democratic-memo-rebuttal-carter-page-trump

The Rick Gates Plea, an Apple Watch Mess, and More Security News This Week

A Mueller probe plea, and Apple snafu, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-repair-center-barrages-sacramentos-911-operators

Beware This Incredibly Silly—But Still Effective—Tax Scam

There are lots of tax scams out there, but this is the only one that pays you first.

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https://www.wired.com/story/tax-scam-deposit-money-identity-theft

What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means For Mueller’s Probe

Paul Manafort’s longtime deputy is cooperating with the special prosecutor, so we may soon have answers to these questions hovering around the Russia investigation.

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https://www.wired.com/story/what-rick-gates-guilty-plea-means-for-muellers-probe

Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency

Facebook is locking users out of their accounts until they download antivirus software that sometimes doesn't even work on their computers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mandatory-malware-scan

US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data For Years

For over a decade, US Customs and Border Patrol has been unable to verify the cryptographic signatures on e-Passports, because they never installed the right software.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years

WhatsApp CEO Brian Acton Invests $50 Million in Newly Formed Signal Foundation

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has taken on the leadership of the non-profit behind that popular encryption app—and given it a serious injection of cash.

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https://www.wired.com/story/signal-foundation-whatsapp-brian-acton

Hackers Hijacked Tesla's Cloud to Mine Cryptocurrency

The recent rash of cryptojacking attacks has hit a Tesla database that contained potentially sensitive information.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cryptojacking-tesla-amazon-cloud

APT37: Inside the Toolset of an Elite North Korean Hacker Group

Security researcher at FireEye break down the arsenal of APT37, a North Korean hacker team coming into focus as a rising threat.

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https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-hacker-group-apt37

Inside the Mueller Indictment: A Russian Novel of Intrigue

The cast of characters revealed in the special counsel's epic indictment is drawn from the overlapping circles of oligarchs, spooks, and mob figures.

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https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mueller-indictment-a-russian-novel-of-intrigue

Mueller Indictment Shows Russia's Internet Research Agency Inner Workings

The most chilling aspect of that blockbuster Mueller indictment? The bureaucracy behind Russia's onslaught.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-indictment-internet-research-agency

Did Russia Affect the 2016 Election? It’s Now Undeniable

In the wake of the Mueller indictment of a Russian troll farm, any attempt to claim that the 2016 election wasn’t affected by Russian meddling is laughable.

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https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable

Mueller Indictment: Russian Trolls Stole Real US Identities To Fool Facebook

A new Justice Department indictment alleges Russia's disinformation operations created bank and social media accounts using the stolen identities of real US citizens.

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https://www.wired.com/story/russian-trolls-identity-theft-mueller-indictment

Mueller Indictment Against Russia Details Efforts to Undermine US Democracy

Robert Mueller's office has come out with a 37-page indictment that details the extraordinary lengths Russian agents went to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-indictment-russia-attack-us-democracy

White House Blames Russia for NotPetya, the 'Most Costly Cyberattack In History'

After its negligence on Russian election hacking, the Trump administration is taking Russia's global malware attack more seriously.

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https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-russia-notpetya-attribution

Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line

From SMS notifications to an egregious number of emails, the social media company's desperation has gone too far.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-notification-spam-two-factor

Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting

In the wake of Wednesday's Parkland, Florida school shooting Russian bots have taken to Twitter to stoke the gun control debate.

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https://www.wired.com/story/pro-gun-russian-bots-flood-twitter-after-parkland-shooting

Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN Offers Less Privacy Protection Than Other Apps

The "Protect" menu item in Facebook's mobile apps refers users to the company's Onavo Protect VPN, but the tool falls short of basic privacy standards.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-onavo-protect-vpn-privacy

North Korea's Olympic Diplomacy Hasn't Stopped Its Hacking

Despite its Olympics diplomacy towards the South, the Kim regime is still engaged in brazen cybercrime targeting its neighbor.

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https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-olympics-diplomacy-south-korea-hacking

Gfycat Uses Artificial Intelligence to Fight Deepfakes Porn

Can a computer spot deepfakes? The GIF website Gfycat says it can.

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https://www.wired.com/story/gfycat-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes

Democratic Task Force Outlines Voting Security Plan, With First Primary Just Weeks Away

The Congressional Task Force on Election Security announced extensive recommendations for strengthening defense. But most of them won't happen any time soon.

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https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-plan-to-secure-midterm-elections

2018 Worldwide Threats Briefing: 5 Takeaways, From Russia to China

In a Senate hearing Tuesday, the heads of the three-letter intelligence agencies detailed their greatest concerns.

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https://www.wired.com/story/worldwide-threats-briefing-russia-election-china

Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity Online

The saying goes, "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog." Is that a good thing for an app for teens?

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https://www.wired.com/story/amino-apps-anonymity

Cryptojacking Found in Critical Infrastructure Systems Raises Alarms

Once confined to browsers, hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency has branched out to dangerous places.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cryptojacking-critical-infrastructure

'Olympic Destroyer' Malware Hit Pyeongchang Ahead of Opening Ceremony

Researchers at Cisco Talos detail a new piece of disruptive, highly infectious malware with a clear target: the Pyeongchang Olympics IT infrastructure.

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https://www.wired.com/story/olympic-destroyer-malware-pyeongchang-opening-ceremony

Snapchat's Snap Map Will Now Be Available On the Web

By bringing the Snap Map out of the app and onto the web, Snap hopes to bring Snapchat to the masses like never before.

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https://www.wired.com/story/snapchat-snap-map-web

An Apple Leak, a Cybercrime Forum Takedown, and More Security News This Week

An Apple leak, a massive cybercrime forum, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/an-apple-employee-leaked-a-major-chunk-of-ios-source-code

Time's Just About Up to Secure the 2018 Midterm Elections

The first primary for the 2018 midterm elections takes place March 6—and many states are still woefully underprepared.

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https://www.wired.com/story/time-about-up-to-secure-2018-midterm-elections

Polisis AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don't Have To

Polisis, a machine-learning-trained tool, automatically produces readable charts of where your data ends up for any online service.

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https://www.wired.com/story/polisis-ai-reads-privacy-policies-so-you-dont-have-to

Feds Take Down Infraud, a $530M Cybercrime Forum That Lasted 7 Years

Infraud may not have been as famous as dark web markets like the Silk Road and Alphabay, but it far outlasted both.

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https://www.wired.com/story/infraud-feds-takedown-cybercrime

Scammers Are Stealing Bitcoin on Twitter With a Classic Scheme

A new twist on the classic Nigerian Prince scheme has jumped from gaming communities to Twitter. And now it's spreading.

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https://www.wired.com/story/classic-scam-steals-bitcoin-on-twitter

Air Gap Hacker Mordechai Guri Steals Data With Noise, Light, and Magnets

Researcher Mordechai Guri has spent the last four years exploring practically every method of stealthily siphoning data off of a disconnected computer.

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https://www.wired.com/story/air-gap-researcher-mordechai-guri

Bob Mueller’s Investigation is Larger—and Further Along—Than You Think

We speak about the “Mueller probe” as a single entity, but it’s important to understand that there are no fewer than five separate investigations under the broad umbrella of the special counsel’s office.

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https://www.wired.com/story/bob-muellers-investigation-is-largerand-further-alongthan-you-think

Autosploit, Strava Heat Maps, and More Top Security News This Week

The memo release, Olympics hacking, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/autosploit-tool-makes-unskilled-hacking-easier-than-ever

The Devin Nunes Memo: Reading Between the Lines

The Devin Nunes memo that purports to show improper surveillance practices is out—and national security experts say it falls far short of the hype.

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https://www.wired.com/story/devin-nunes-memo-carter-page-surveillance

Winter Olympic Cyberattacks Have Already Started—And May Not Be Over

Two state-sponsored hacking operations are plaguing Pyeongchang, with murky motivations and no clear endgame.

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https://www.wired.com/story/pyeongchang-winter-olympics-cyberattacks

'Jackpotting' ATM Hack Comes to the United States

The "jackpotting" ATM attack drained tens of millions of dollars worldwide before landing in the United States.

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https://www.wired.com/story/jackpotting-atm-hacks

If Robert Mueller Is Fired, the Russia Probe Could Continue

The special counsel is under attack, but if Robert Mueller gets fired, the investigation into Trump’s Russia ties and obstruction of justice could keep going.

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https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-happens-if-magnificent-bastard-mueller-gets-fired