Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
…Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there. Cyberattack on…
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Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Amid rising fears of political violence, a WIRED investigation found that US political candidates are spending more on security, including purchasing equipment like home alarms and bulletproof vests. And recent research looking…
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Acquired through Freedom of Information Act requests to CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, the records reveal the breadth of alleged…
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
…But as WIRED has previously documented, MSG security keeps close tabs on what is said online about Dolan and the Garden’s management. Some fans have been targeted by MSG for criticizing…
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
…Joshua Corman, the former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency strategist serving as our dungeon master, stands at the front of a conference space in an office tower high above Times Square, narrating…
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
…The agent wasn’t perfect, and it still exposed me to the risk of prompt injections or other security breaches, yet Cowork felt like a step change in how everyday users could…
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
The new approach is part of a series of measures Meta adopted as part of an AI-based security strategy designed to correct the limitations of traditional methods, which rely heavily on…
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
…Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
…If an account is hacked, a security breach occurs, or a government official demands access to your chat logs, troves of highly sensitive and sexual conversations could be exposed in ways the…
European Researchers Say Big Tech Is Blocking Access to Their Data
…TikTok said they had failed to prove they were established researchers or to explain their commercial interests or to meet security requirements, Iamnitchi wrote in a blog post. But two month’s…