Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames

An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream.

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https://www.wired.com/story/supply-chain-hackers-videogames-asus-ccleaner

Don't Praise the Sri Lankan Government for Blocking Facebook

Social media can provide vital information in a crisis, and there's evidence blocking it does more harm than good.

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https://www.wired.com/story/sri-lanka-bombings-social-media-shutdown

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful with who's generating your cryptocurrency keys.

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https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-bandit-ethereum-weak-private-keys

14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed

When you dig into the Mueller report, a lot of important details start to jump out.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-donald-trump-takeaways

Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a 'Useful Idiot'

The Mueller report exposes the extent to which not just Russia but Donald Trump's own associates grifted the president.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-donald-trump-useful-idiot

Hackers Can Tell What Netflix 'Bandersnatch' Choices You Make

Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices.

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https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-interactive-bandersnatch-hackers-choices

Facebook Fails, Russian Hacks, and More Security News This Week

The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mueller-report-security-roundup

Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump

Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-trump-impeachment-congress

Read the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-trump-facebook-instagram-passwords

The Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On

The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-trump-obstruction-of-justice-barr

A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers and Dumping Their Code

Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.

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https://www.wired.com/story/iran-hackers-oilrig-read-my-lips

The Mueller Report Is Out. Read It Here

Attorney general William Barr has released the redacted Mueller report to Congress. You can read all 300-plus pages of it right here.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-russia-redacted-trump-barr-read

Dark Web Drug Seller Sinmed Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals

Investigators from the New York district attorney's office stumbled across dark web drug vendor "sinmed" thanks to suspicious ATM transactions.

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https://www.wired.com/story/sinmed-dark-web-manattan-district-attorney-atm-withdrawals

Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.

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https://www.wired.com/story/sea-turtle-dns-hijacking

Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support

Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft's customer support platform.

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https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-email-hack-outlook-hotmail-customer-support

Julian Assange, a Big Yahoo Fine, and More Security News This Week

Plus: Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, Silk Road 2's founder, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-julian-assange-wpa3-yahoo

Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts

A leadership void at DHS means the White House is calling the shots where it wants to, cybersecurity experts warn, and other agencies can muscle in where it won’t.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-homeland-security-purge-worries-cybersecurity-experts

Julian Assange Arrested, Mastering *Jeopardy!*, and More News

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/tech-in-two-assange-arrested-jeopardy-record-boston-marathon

How To Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible

With news that Amazon lets human employees listen to Alexa recordings, you might want to tighten up your smart assistant ship.

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https://www.wired.com/story/alexa-google-assistant-echo-smart-speaker-privacy-controls

Breaking Down the Julian Assange Hacking Case

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested, and now faces extradition to the United States. But not for leaking classified information.

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https://www.wired.com/story/julian-assange-arrest-indictment-hacking-cfaa

William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller Report Release

Attorney general William Barr will have tremendous sway over how much of the Mueller report the public can see. Right now, it doesn't look promising.

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https://www.wired.com/story/william-barr-mueller-report-congress-testimony

Google DLP Makes It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves

Google's Data Loss Prevention tool finds and redacts sensitive data in the cloud. A new user interface makes now makes it more broadly accessible.

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https://www.wired.com/story/google-data-loss-prevention-interface

A Peek Into the Toolkit of the Dangerous 'Triton' Hackers

Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs' intrusions.

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https://www.wired.com/story/triton-hacker-toolkit-fireeye

Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years

The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years.

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https://www.wired.com/story/tajmahal-swiss-army-spyware-apt

A New Breed of ATM Hackers Gets in Through a Bank’s Network

Innovations in digital payment system attack methods mean the rash of heists isn’t over.

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https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hacks-swift-network

How Android Fought the Chamois Botnet—and Won

The Chamois botnet once infected 20 million Android devices. Here's how Google finally tore it up.

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https://www.wired.com/story/google-android-chamois-botnet

An IOS App That Secretly Spies on You, And More News

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ios-spyware-sonos-ikea-white-rhino

'Exodus' Spyware Posed as a Legit iOS App

Researchers had already found a spyware app called Exodus plaguing Android. Now it's shown up on iPhones, too.

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https://www.wired.com/story/exodus-spyware-ios

The Robocall Crisis Will Never Be Totally Fixed

Believe it or not, the robocall crisis has stabilized. But like email spam, it's never going to go away entirely.

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https://www.wired.com/story/robocalls-spam-fix-stir-shaken

Facebook Won't Stop Being Sketchy, and More Security News This Week

Plus: Mar-a-Lago mishaps, Airbnb's creepy camera problem, tax-season phishing scams, and more.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-roundup-facebook-wont-stop-being-sketchy

Facebook Let Dozens of Cybercrime Groups Operate in Plain Sight

Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-cybercrime-groups-again

Filing Your Taxes? Watch Out for Phishing Scams

Online scammers love to target taxpayers, and their schemes range from posing as the IRS to pushing malware and fake tech support.

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https://www.wired.com/story/filing-taxes-phishing-scams

Facebook Exposed Data Again, but This Viral Cat Can Save Lives

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-data-exposed-trump-mar-a-lago-lil-bub

Mar-a-Lago's Security Problems Go Way Beyond a Thumb Drive

A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersecurity risks.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mar-a-lago-security-problems

It’s Time to End the NSA’s Metadata Collection Program

Opinion: Congress needs to pull the plug and end the authority for the CDR program.

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https://www.wired.com/story/wired-opinion-nsa-metadata-collection-program

Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records

A cybersecurity firm found two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-apps-540-million-records

Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware

Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow.

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https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus

Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue

Opinion: Elizabeth Warren endorsed Right to Repair for farm equipment, pushing the cause to a new level of prominence.

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https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-elizabeth-warren-farmers

Google Play Store’s Malware Problem, and More Security News This Week

Plus, Russia cracks down on VPNs, Microsoft cracks down on Iranian hackers, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/google-play-store-malware-problem-security-roundup

The Huawei Threat Isn't Backdoors. It's Bugs

A British report finds that Huawei equipment, suspected of including backdoors for China's government, suffers from a lack of "basic engineering competence."

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https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-threat-isnt-backdoors-its-bugs

HTTPS Isn't Always As Secure As It Seems

A surprising number of high-traffic sites have TLS vulnerabilities that are subtle enough for the green padlock to still appear.

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https://www.wired.com/story/https-isnt-always-as-secure-as-it-seems

Want Apple Card’s Security Benefits? Just Use Apple Pay

Apple says Apple Card offers "a new level" of security, but nearly all those protections are already available if you use Apple Pay.

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-card-security-benefits-use-apple-pay

Mastercard Wades Into Murky Waters With Its New Digital ID

The credit card company has more details about its plan for a decentralized, universal digital ID, but questions remain.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mastercard-digital-id

How Zello Became a Lifeline for Venezuelans Under Maduro

A dedicated community of Zello moderators is using the voice-chat app to help bring news and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis.

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https://www.wired.com/story/zello-channel-venezuela-maduro

How to Check Your Computer for Hacked Asus Software Update

Hackers compromised Asus’s Live Update tool to distribute malware to almost 1 million people. Here’s how to see if your computer has it.

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https://www.wired.com/story/asus-software-update-hack

Machines Shouldn’t Have to Spy On Us to Learn

We need a breakthrough that allows us to reap the benefits of AI without savaging data privacy.

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https://www.wired.com/story/machines-shouldnt-have-to-spy-on-us-to-learn

Meet LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms

The new strain of malware represents a dangerous combination of aggressive disruption and high-stakes targets.

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https://www.wired.com/story/lockergoga-ransomware-crippling-industrial-firms

On the Trail of the Robocall King

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

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https://www.wired.com/story/on-the-trail-of-the-robocall-king

Mueller Says No Collusion, Barr Raises a Million Questions

In a convoluted letter to Congress, Attorney General William Barr summarized Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation and said he won't charge President Trump with obstruction.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-says-no-collusion-trump-russia-investigation

Kushner Used WhatsApp, a Very Bad Database Leak, and More Security News This Week

Jared and Ivanka used WhatsApp against the rules, and more security news this week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/jared-kushner-used-whatsapp-for-white-house-business-security-roundup

FEMA Leaked Data From 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors

The Homeland Security Department inspector general released a damning report about FEMA's inability to safeguard the personal info of the people it helped.

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https://www.wired.com/story/fema-leaked-the-data-2-million-disaster-survivors

The Mueller Report Is Here, Apple's Big Event, and More News

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-trump-russia-apple-announcement-tech-news

The Mueller Report Is Done. Now Comes the Hard Part

Special counsel Robert Mueller finished his investigation into the 2016 presidential election Friday.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-done-trump-russia-investigation

Utah Just Became a Leader in Digital Privacy

Opinion: Utah legislators recently voted to pass landmark legislation in support of a new privacy law. Statehouses across the country should take notes.

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https://www.wired.com/story/utah-digital-privacy-legislation

Your Facebook Password Isn’t Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone

Catch up on the most important tech news today in two minutes or less.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-password-bug-android-phone-spy-airbnb-tech-news

Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now

Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-change-yours

In the Face of Danger, We’re Turning to Surveillance

From the Rose Bowl to upstate New York, people are turning to surveillance systems in the face America’s inability to meaningfully address of gun violence.

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https://www.wired.com/story/surveillance-safety

Researchers Built an "Online Lie Detector." Honestly, That Could Be a Problem

Critics point out serious flaws in a study promising an "online polygraph," with potential to create deep biases.

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https://www.wired.com/story/online-lie-detector-test-machine-learning

An Android Vulnerability Went Unfixed For Over Five Years

Older Android devices—of which there are over 100 million still in use—will remain exposed.

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https://www.wired.com/story/android-vulnerability-five-years-fragmentation

The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi’s comments about impeachment acknowledge a political reality: Nothing the Mueller probe has revealed so far has moved the GOP substantially.

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https://www.wired.com/story/evidence-that-could-impeach-donald-trump

Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People

The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall.

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https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-data-leak-fallout

Beto O'Rourke Belonged to an Infamous '90s Hacker Group

Facial recognition, DuckDuckGo on Chrome, and more security news this week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/beto-orourke-cult-of-the-dead-cow-hacking-group

Most Android Antivirus Apps Are Garbage

Fraudulent and ineffective antivirus apps persist on the Google Play Store, and it's unclear whether they'll ever totally go away.

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https://www.wired.com/story/android-antivirus-apps-bad-fake

How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist

Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mexico-bank-hack

When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-down-dont-blame-hackers

Internal Docs Show How ICE Gets Surveillance Help From Local Cops

Documents obtained by the ACLU show how ICE uses unofficial channels to access billions of license plate location data points—including some sanctuary cities.

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https://www.wired.com/story/ice-license-plate-surveillance-vigilant-solutions

Firefox Send Is an Easy Way to Share Large Files Securely

Mozilla has made public an encrypted file-sharing service with a self-destruct twist.

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https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-send-encrypted-large-files

Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid

Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch.

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https://www.wired.com/story/venezuela-power-outage-black-start

US Tracks Journalists, Chelsea Manning Goes to Jail, and More Security News This Week

A surprisingly common password, an NSA spy program winds down, and more security news this week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-tracked-journalists-reporting-migrant-caravan-security-roundup

New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases

*Truth in a Post Truth World* takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists.

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https://www.wired.com/story/bellingcat-documentary-south-by-southwest

Turn On Auto-Updates Everywhere You Can

Meltdowns like the Chrome zero day bug show why enabling auto-updates can be the wisest choice for many consumers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/turn-on-auto-updates-everywhere

An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online

A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses.

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https://www.wired.com/story/email-marketing-company-809-million-records-exposed-online

9 Questions for Facebook After Zuckerberg’s Privacy Manifesto

On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for a very different Facebook—with a lot of unknowns about how to get there.

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https://www.wired.com/story/zuckerberg-privacy-manifesto-questions

Machine Learning Can Use Tweets To Automatically Spot Critical Security Flaws

Researchers built an AI engine that uses tweets to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities with 86 percent accuracy.

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https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-tweets-critical-security-flaws

The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source

No one's better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free.

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https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ghidra-open-source-tool

Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Video Game Logic Engine to Protect Macs

A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system's own indicators, and some video game magic, to keep a lookout.

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https://www.wired.com/story/gameplan-macos-security-tool-video-game-logic-engine

States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/states-money-fix-crumbling-voting-machines

Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory.

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https://www.wired.com/story/google-project-zero-buggycow-macos-zero-day

Backstory: An Alphabet Moonshot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots.

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https://www.wired.com/story/chronicle-backstory-network-intelligence-data

House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks

The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into Trump includes the now-defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans.

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https://www.wired.com/story/congress-democrats-trump-inquiry-cambridge-analytica

The Overlooked Security Threat of Sign-In Kiosks

New research from IBM shows that several visitor management systems had a rash of vulnerabilities.

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https://www.wired.com/story/visitor-management-system-vulnerabilities

The Air Force Wants to Give You Its Credit Card

Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to WIRED's editor-in-chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day.

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https://www.wired.com/story/will-roper-air-force-interview

Trump's North Korea Summit Inspires Spearphishing

Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for #DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-north-korean-hackers-spearfishing

Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own

The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-north-korea-mistake

A Second Life for the 'Do Not Track' Setting—With Teeth

In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to play in enforcing privacy regulations.

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https://www.wired.com/story/a-second-life-for-the-do-not-track-setting

Michael Cohen's Credibility Has Never Been More Certain

In his testimony before Congress Wednesday, Trump's former fixer gave the most convincing narrative yet about Trump's presidential run.

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https://www.wired.com/story/michael-cohen-congress-testimony-credibility

FTC Hits TikTok With Record $5.7 Million Fine Over Children’s Privacy

The social media app will pay $5.7 million to settle the allegations, and be required to delete videos uploaded by anyone under 13.

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https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ftc-record-fine-childrens-privacy

Email Scammers Ditch Wire Transfers for iTunes Gift Cards

Business email compromise attacks are increasingly targeting nonprofits, and bilking them for iTunes gift cards.

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https://www.wired.com/story/email-scammers-gift-cards-nonprofits

Michael Cohen's House Testimony: 5 Key Takeaways

Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight committee tells a new story about Trump and Russia.

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https://www.wired.com/story/michael-cohen-testimony-key-takeaways

US Hackers' Strike on Russian Trolls Sends a Message—but What Kind?

US Cyber Command's takedown of the Internet Research Agency's network may be more about signaling than immediate effects.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-command-ira-strike-sends-signal

Watch Michael Cohen Testify Before Congress Right Here

On Wednesday morning, the former Trump fixer will appear before the House Oversight Committee to share everything he knows about Trump's business practices.

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https://www.wired.com/story/watch-michael-cohen-testify-congress-oversight-trump-organization

Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location

New research shows how nearby attackers can see where you are, send you spoofed carrier messages, and more.

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https://www.wired.com/story/torpedo-4g-5g-network-attack-stingray

Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into 'Bare Metal' Cloud Computers

Researchers point a tough-to-fix in some cloud computing setups: hackable firmware.

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https://www.wired.com/story/dark-metal-cloud-computers-invisible-malware

Android Is Helping Make Passwords Obsolete on a Billion Devices

By officially embracing the FIDO2 standard, Android will soon let you log into sites and services without having to remember a password.

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https://www.wired.com/story/android-passwordless-login-fido2

A Hidden Nest Secure Mic, Facebook's Dead VPN, and More Security News This Week

The 2020 disinformation campaigns have started, DrainerBot is coming for your smartphone's battery, and more security news this week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/nest-secure-hidden-mic-facebook-onavo-security-roundup

The (Non-Trump) Surprise Inside Andrew McCabe's Memoir

In *The Threat*, the former FBI deputy director paints a familiar portrait of Trump, but deepens our understanding of a dark time for agency.

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https://www.wired.com/story/the-threat-andrew-mccabe-trump-comey-rosenstein

The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers and Assassins

Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency.

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https://www.wired.com/story/roman-dobrokhotov-insider-russia-gru-bellingcat

A 'Smart Wall' Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis

A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one. But it raises civil liberties concerns that have largely been dropped from the border debate.

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https://www.wired.com/story/border-smart-wall-privacy-surveillance

7 Scenarios For How the Mueller Probe Might End

New reports say that Robert Mueller will be "wrapping up" his investigation soon. Here's what that might actually mean.

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https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-russia-probe-trump-wrap-up-scenarios

Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy Setting ASAP

Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app.

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https://www.wired.com/story/android-facebook-location-privacy-setting

ATM Hacking Has Gotten So Easy, the Malware's a Game

A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine.

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https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hacking-winpot-jackpotting-game

Russian Hackers Go From Foothold to Full-On Breach in 19 Minutes

A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours.

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https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-speed-intrusion-breach

NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy

With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.

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https://www.wired.com/story/nato-stratcom-catfished-soldiers-social-media

The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes

It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.

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https://www.wired.com/story/zeynep-tufekci-facts-fake-news-verification

What Is Credential Stuffing?

What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They're frequently used to try to break into users' other accounts across the internet.

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https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-credential-stuffing

Chinese Surveillance, Facebook Tracking, and More Security News This Week

3-D printed rifles, Iran missile hacking, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/database-leak-details-chinas-oppressive-tracking-of-muslims-security-roundup

Hacks, Nudes, and Breaches: It's Been a Rough Month for Dating Apps

Trouble at OKCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Jack'd have made February a bad stretch for romantics online.

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https://www.wired.com/story/ok-cupid-dating-apps-hacks-breaches-security

Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That Doesn’t Exist

As he declared a national emergency Friday, President Trump repeatedly dismissed statistics and reports produced by his own government.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-national-emergency-data-doesnt-exist

Instead of a Wall, Congress Puts Border Money Where It Counts

President Trump has yet to sign the bill. If he doesn't, another government shutdown looms.

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https://www.wired.com/story/congress-spending-bill-wall-money-border-tech

Don’t Get Your Valentine an Internet-Connected Sex Toy

Mozilla expands its “Privacy Not Included” gift guide to the bedroom: It’s all sexy fun and games until someone hacks a WiFi-enabled butt plug.

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https://www.wired.com/story/internet-connected-sex-toys-security

US Air Force Defector Allegedly Helped Iran Hack Americans

In an astonishing indictment, the DoJ details how Monica Witt allegedly turned on her former counterintelligence colleagues.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-air-force-defector-allegedly-helped-iran-hack-americans

1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018

And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League.

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What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet

State media has reported that Russia will attempt to disconnect from the global internet this spring. That's going to be tricky.

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The Xiaomi M365 Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop

A hacker can accelerate Xiaomi M365 scooter—or hit the breaks—while a rider is on it.

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Amber Authenticate Protects Video Footage From Deepfakes and Tampering

Many of the body cameras worn by police are woefully vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. Amber Authenticate wants to fix that—with the blockchain.

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Why the US Needs a National Strategy for AI

Opinion: With its American AI Initiative, the White House is devoting funding, research, and data infrastructure to boosting our prowess in artificial intelligence.

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Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown Mess

The shutdown may have ended two weeks ago, but federal cybersecurity professionals will be coping with its impact for a long time to come.

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An Apple-Hacking Teen, SIM-Swap Indictments, and More Security News This Week

Location data scandals, a Zcash bug, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/teen-apple-macos-hack-security-roundup

Twitter Still Can't Keep Up With Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

Meanwhile, two Iowa researchers built an AI engine they say can spot abusive apps on Twitter months before the service itself.

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Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps

The lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies.

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Go Update iOS Right Now To Fix That Very Bad FaceTime Bug

Apple has just released iOS 12.1.4, which fixes a group chat FaceTime bug that let callers eavesdrop on targets.

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Google's Making It Easier to Encrypt Even Cheap Android Phones

Adiantum will help millions of low-end Android smartphones receive the same encryption protections as flagships.

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What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us

The special counsel's indictments have so far stopped short tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in.

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https://www.wired.com/story/what-robert-mueller-knows-and-isnt-saying-trump-russia-investigation

What It Takes to Pull Off the Country's First Online Census

Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to new risks.

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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology

Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.

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A New Google Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords

“Password Checkup” isn’t a password manager but a simple tool that warns you if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in data breaches.

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A Facebook Crackdown, Amazon Facial Recognition, and More Security News This Week

Hackers use SS7 flaws to rob banks, Japan goes after IoT vulnerabilities, and more security news this week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-takes-down-hundreds-of-fake-pages-from-iran-security-roundup

POW Audio reveals the Mo expandable speaker

For most of us, we would think of a speaker as something that is static and non-expandable, simply because it has tended to be that way for so long. What then if I were to propose the idea of an expandable speaker? This is what the folks over at POW Audio have come up with, a brand new portable audio device that has reimagined the way speakers are built in order to deliver unparalleled sound quality in the form of the Mo. The Mo expandable Bluetooth speaker will rely on POW Audio’s patented WaveBloom technology which can expand to create a passive radiator that supports the speaker’s high-quality drivers using an air-filled chamber.

The added air will end up delivering better bass resonance, bigger volume, and improved overall sound quality. All of these are simply unachievable using a standard, tightly-packed speaker, since that would not have the expansive wave chamber. The Mo can be pre-ordered at the moment with shipping set to commence this coming middle of March 2019. With an asking price of $99.99 apiece, it is certainly worth checking out considering that it will be more than just a novelty.

Another unique feature of the Mo expandable Bluetooth speaker would be its ability to be easily attached to the back of any smartphone via POW Audio’s universal mount. Whenever it is not in use, the Mo can also be folded down flat to the back of the handset, and it is not surprising that the diminutive form factor makes it easy to be slipped into any pocket. The universal mount, as well as a wallet that can be swapped on when Mo is not attached will arrive with each individual purchase of Mo to help new owners get started right out of the box.

Mo will also boast of Stereo Sync that sees a couple of Mo speakers getting paired in order to spread left and right channels while boosting amplitude for an immersive, true stereo experience. One can choose from Snow and Graphite color schemes for this water-resistant and UV stable speaker. With Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity and USB-C charging, it will offer up to 8 hours of music playback on a full two-hour charge time.

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Why Facebook's Banned 'Research' App Was So Invasive

Until Apple revoked its privileges Wednesday, Facebook was paying iOS users $20 a month to download and install the data-sucking application.

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Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

Can a trio of privacy advocates effect change from within Facebook—or will they be stifled by corporate bureaucracy?

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Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records

The so-called Collections #1-5 represent a gargantuan, patched-together Frankenstein of rotting personal data.

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https://www.wired.com/story/collection-leak-usernames-passwords-billions

The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself

Tuesday's worldwide threats briefing to Congress outline numerous concerns for US security—many of which Donald Trump has inflamed or denied.

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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why.

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Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug

Group FaceTime chats let people eavesdrop on whoever they called, a bug so bad that Apple pulled the plug until it comes up with a fix.

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Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing

Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."

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A Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling, Supply Chain Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/six-flags-biometric-privacy-security-roundup

The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Facebook's effort to combine its major chat platforms could create minefields for users who rely on end-to-end encryption.

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The Roger Stone Indictment: 4 Key Takeaways

The indictment of longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone allegedly sheds new light on where the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks intersected.

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https://www.wired.com/story/roger-stone-indictment-wikileaks-mueller-investigation

One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues.

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https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data

It’s Not Quite Doomsday o’Clock—But It Should Be

Opinion: The apocalyptic clock remains fixed at two minutes to midnight—as close as we've ever been to catastrophe. That's not close enough.

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https://www.wired.com/story/its-nearly-doomsday-o-clock

Nest Cams Hijacked in the Name of PewDiePie and North Korea Pranks

In separate incidents, hackers have used poor password hygiene to terrify Nest camera owners.

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Jargon Watch: Stochastic Terrorism Lets Bullies Operate in Plain Sight

It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies.

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https://www.wired.com/story/jargon-watch-rising-danger-stochastic-terrorism

How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out

Sharing is caring. But it's worth checking if your streaming accounts have picked up any suspicious stragglers along the way

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https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-hulu-spotify-shared-account-freeloaders

DNC Accuses Russia, ACLU Sues ICE, and More Security News This Week

Trump dominated security headlines this week, but there's plenty of other news to catch up on.

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https://www.wired.com/story/dnc-russia-spearphishing-aclu-lawsuit-security-roundup

If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming

An explosive new report from Buzzfeed News makes the impeachment of Donald Trump not just possible, but likely.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-impeachment-mueller-cohen

Trump's Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves

The Trump administration has presented its Missile Defense Review, and yes, there are lasers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-missile-defense-review

How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children

Ad-hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse.

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https://www.wired.com/story/oig-report-trump-separated-children-border

Be Careful Using Bots on Telegram

Introducing a bot to a secure Telegram conversation downgrades the level of encryption—without providing any visual cues.

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https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-bots-tls-encryption

How Trump Could Wind up Making Globalism Great Again

OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-style-nationalism-make-globalism-great-again

An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach

Collection #1 appears to be the biggest public breach yet, with millions of unique passwords sitting out in the open.

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https://www.wired.com/story/collection-one-breach-email-accounts-passwords

Trump Must Be a Russian Agent. The Alternative Is Too Awful

We know a lot about the “what” of the Mueller probe’s findings. The crucial questions now focus on the “why?”

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https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-mueller-russia-agent-putin

A 'Fortnite' Vulnerability Exposed Accounts to Takeover

Epic Games has since patched the attack, which would have allowed attackers to view account info, listen in on in-game conversations, and more.

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As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity.

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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge

How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence

Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/gps-tracking-technology-can-curb-domestic-violence

Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week

A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week.

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A Worldwide Hacking Spree Uses DNS Trickery to Nab Data

Security researchers suspect that Iran has spent the last two years pilfering data from telecoms, governments, and more.

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Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think

Researchers built a tool that can predict where you live and work, as well as other sensitive information, just by using geotagged tweets.

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https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-location-data-gps-privacy

Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?

Months after Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon promised to stop selling user location data, the practice continues.

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A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps

Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps.

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Paul Manafort Is Bad at Basic Tech, From Passwords to PDFs

The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security.

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A YubiKey for iOS Will Soon Free Your iPhone From Passwords

Yubico has finally gotten the green light from Apple to make a hardware authentication token that works on iPhones and iPads.

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Mueller Investigation 2019: Indictments, Witnesses, and More

The special counsel has lots of unfinished business on his to-do list this year, including a final report. Here's a rundown.

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https://www.wired.com/story/robert-muellers-2019-to-do-list

The 'Twinning' Fad, the Weather Channel, and More Security News

A rogue PewDiePie fan, Marriott hack details, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-that-viral-twinning-site-leaked-a-bunch-of-photos

A Major Hacking Spree Gets Personal for German Politicians

Hundreds of German politicians who have had their private digital lives exposed online are victims of a hacking campaign with unclear motives.

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https://www.wired.com/story/germany-hacking-politicians-personal-information

The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre

One year after a pair of devastating processor vulnerabilities were first disclosed, Intel's still dealing with the fallout.

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https://www.wired.com/story/intel-meltdown-spectre-storm

Tor Is Easier Than Ever. Time to Give It a Try

Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever.

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