Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:44:21 +0000
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:54:49 +0000
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:24:31 +0000
The ad hoc addition to the otherwise tightly controlled White House information environment could create blind spots and security exposures while setting potentially dangerous precedent.
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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: Eric Geller| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:43:33 +0000
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, David Gilbert, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:49:46 +0000
Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:21:46 +0000
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.
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Credit to Author: Paresh Dave| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:02:36 +0000
Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects.
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