Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck
US president Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at preventing a handful of countries, including China, North Korea, […]
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Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
When the Egyptian government shut down the internet in 2011 to give itself cover to crush a popular protest movement, it was […]
Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust
Six days before Christmas, the US Department of Justice loudly announced a win in the ongoing fight against the scourge of ransomware: […]
The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
Mark Nelson took the call in an immigration detention center—a place that, to him, felt just like prison. It had the same […]
5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More
Mullvad offers apps for every major platform, as well as routers. The applications are all open source, and you can check the […]
How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security
It remains unclear how many of Warner’s colleagues agree with him. But when WIRED surveyed the other 23 Republican secretaries who oversee […]
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly […]
A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
While the documents have now been removed from GitHub, where they were first posted, the identity and motivations of the person, or […]
Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
Finding shell casings can be extremely difficult. A Los Angeles Police Department officer not authorized to speak to the media tells WIRED […]
Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning
Turner’s press release notably went further than HPSCI’s letter, pressing US president Joe Biden to personally “declassify all information” concerning the threat. […]