Did a Chinese University Hacking Competition Target a Real Victim?
Capture the flag hacking contests at security conferences generally serve two purposes: to help participants develop and demonstrate computer hacking and security […]
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The Mystery of Hezbollah’s Deadly Exploding Pagers
The AP-900 runs on two AAA batteries, which, like any battery, could be induced to explode, but likely not with such force […]
Apple’s New Passwords App May Solve Your Login Nightmares
Apple’s latest iPhone software update, iOS 18, arrives today and includes a new app: Passwords. For the first time, Apple is taking […]
A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
After Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server environment, known as Private […]
‘Terrorgram’ Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along
Allison’s commitment to neofascism and white supremacy appears to have run deep—“I won’t quit til I’m dead. my only goal in life […]
Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
The GAZEploit attack consists of two parts, says Zhan, one of the lead researchers. First, the researchers created a way to identify […]
Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works
Apple is making every production PCC server build publicly available for inspection so people unaffiliated with Apple can verify that PCC is […]
What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
But X also makes it clear the onus is on the user to judge the AI’s accuracy. “This is an early version […]
Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Even those of you who do everything you can to secure those secrets can find yourself vulnerable—especially if you’re using a YubiKey […]
The NSA Has a Podcast—Here’s How to Decode It
My first story for WIRED—yep, 31 years ago—looked at a group of “crypto rebels” who were trying to pry strong encryption technology […]