Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
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Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their time in […]
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and […]
Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users
The password killers known as “passkeys” are now available to users of Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which works to add an additional […]
The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
That public nature of the criminal transactions is all the more shocking given that Huione Guarantee is operated by Huione Group, a […]
Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Proton, the company behind Proton Mail, launched an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, seeking to compete with the cloud giant on […]
The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats
By the time the Senate unanimously confirmed Nate Fick to be America’s cyber ambassador in September 2022, tech diplomacy headaches were impossible […]
The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common
On July 20, the United States Commerce Department will ban new sales of popular antivirus software made by Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs. The […]
Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security
WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services investigated claims that the AI search startup Perplexity may have violated the cloud company’s […]
Inside a Violent Gang’s Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree
She refused to give up her password, and was, according to the prosecutors’ description, so demoralized by the earlier hacking theft of […]