The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
The week was particularly chock-full of dramatic security news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform caused massive global service […]
Tag: Security / National Security
The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy
The Commerce Department could hit a legal snag with its proposal to require cloud companies to verify their customers’ identities and report […]
US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
Last week, WIRED confirmed that Senator John Cornyn, whose committee assignments include both judiciary and intelligence, was the source of an objection […]
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
The day is slowly turning into night, and the American special operators are growing concerned. They are deployed to a densely populated […]
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 […]
War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
The platform allows users to virtually walk through the city of Timbuktu, as well as see it from above. Nested within the […]
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
United States prosecutors have secured a deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requiring the long-embattled publisher to plead guilty to one count […]
A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in another supply […]