The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who live within range of its 450 intercontinental ballistic missile silos, the Pentagon has […]
Tag: Security
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 […]
Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon […]
How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
Global air travel has been one of the most impacted sectors so far. Huge lines formed at airports around the world, with […]
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
The outages could result in “millions” being lost by organizations impacted who have had to halt their operations or stop business, says […]
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
Despite his anti-elite stance, Vance’s connections reveal a more complex relationship with establishment figures. At the same time, as the former president […]
Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of a violent […]
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 […]
Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-TB trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump of Disney’s […]
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 […]