The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?
TP-Link is one of the most popular router manufacturers in the US, but the company is facing a potential ban due to […]
Tag: Security
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem reveals that a wealth of sensitive information on Americans is being […]
Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here’s How She Got Them Taken Down
At the start of last August, Point de Contact told WIRED that only two images on four different Microsoft servers remained. “We […]
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known as “Big Balls,” is now on staff […]
A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
For more than a decade now, Russian cyberwarfare has used Ukraine as a test lab for its latest hacking techniques, methods that […]
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed the Privacy […]
The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s homepage is […]
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to […]
The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
UTA’s Wang notes that while she hasn’t assessed whether scammers are using generative AI to produce romance scam scripts, she is seeing […]
China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching […]