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