Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:43:33 +0000
Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Noah Shachtman| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time.
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Credit to Author: Anna Wolfe, Sarah Cammarata| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:26:04 +0000
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:54:46 +0000
On Monday morning, TV sets at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development played the seemingly AI-generated video on loop, along with the words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:58:10 +0000
The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.
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Credit to Author: Simon Hill| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0000
Several government departments are investigating TP-Link routers over Chinese cyberattack fears, but the company denies links.
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Credit to Author: Will Knight, Paresh Dave, Leah Feiger| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:19:27 +0000
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
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