Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:38:15 +0000
Misconfigured license-plate-recognition systems reveal the livestreams of individual cameras and the wealth of data they collect about every vehicle that passes by them.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts, Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI discovers a historic trove of homemade explosives, new details emerge in China’s hack of the US Treasury Department, and more.
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Credit to Author: Kate Knibbs| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:36:03 +0000
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000
A network of Facebook pages has been advertising “fuel filters” that are actually meant to be used as silencers, which are heavily regulated by US law. Even US military officials are concerned.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Your messages going back years are likely still lurking online, potentially exposing sensitive information you forgot existed. But there’s no time like the present to do some digital decluttering.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:29:57 +0000
Treasury says hackers accessed “certain unclassified documents” in a “major” breach, but experts believe the attack’s impacts could prove to be more significant as new details emerge.
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Credit to Author: WIRED Staff| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000
From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever.
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