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: 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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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:21:41 +0000
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
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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: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000
A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm’s “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it’s trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
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Credit to Author: Jared Keller| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Swarms of weaponized unmanned surface vessels have proven formidable weapons in the Black and Red Seas. Can the US military learn the right lessons from it?
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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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