… New research this week shed light on an incident in which 90,000 screenshots pulled from a European celebrity's phone were exposed online—underscoring the risks of commercially available spyware both as an invasion of personal privacy and a threat for widespread data breaches and abuse. …
… Finally, we detailed Russia’s effort to create a local competitor to Starlink satellite internet service—with all the privacy and security concerns that entails. And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… WIRED previously reported that some tech companies, including Meta, have asked employees to refrain from using OpenClaw on their work computers, due to the unpredictability of the agents and potential security risks. …
… Legal consultant Ahmed Elnaggar, managing partner of Elnaggar & Partners, says the rationale for arrests related to online activity is consistent with that framework. “Content shared during emergencies is assessed not only for its accuracy, but also for its potential impact on stability, security, … …
… In recent months, OpenAI’s advisory council of outside experts expressed concerns about the risks of this imminent release, including the possibility of a “sexy suicide coach,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI declined to comment when reached by WIRED. …
… A flaw in the apps made it possible for anyone to access the huge troves of information that had been gathered from stalkerware victims and simultaneously exposed millions of Cocospy customer email addresses, TechCrunch reported at the time. “Their malware on Android was full-blown spyware,” says V… …
… That brings us to the main question: What advantages would Apple be seeking by adding cameras to its AirPods—especially at a time when consumers' privacy concerns about casual surveillance through smart glasses' cameras, doorbell cams, and even phone cameras are on the rise? …
… The AI race has finally entered the cybersecurity lap. After Anthropic revealed its new model, Mythos, as a unique risk to the security status quo, OpenAI announced that it, too, has a new cybersecurity strategy, and a new model to go with it—GPT-5.4-Cyber. …
… It defines a frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs, like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta. “We support approaches like this because they focus on what matters most: Reducing the risk … …
… You do still have to be conscious that you're granting Gemini complete control over the app, which may open you up to privacy and security risks . The good thing is that if you don't want any of these AI capabilities, you can spend a few minutes disabling and getting rid of most of them. …