Molas, of RAND Europe, says Martin’s alleged path from extortion to soliciting a homicide traces a familiar path of transgressive behavior often seen in Com/764’s online world. “They’ll start with little acts of sin—shoplifting, then robberies, abuse of minors, weapons… Read More "The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’"
A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem reveals that a wealth of sensitive information on Americans is being openly served up to some of the world’s largest brands despite the company’s own rules against it. Experts… Read More "Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases"
Partnering with local health authorities not only helps prevent the next epidemic, but it also makes sure that these virological samples are kept secure—“so it’s not accidentally going to leak out of these public health facilities or not be stolen… Read More "Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a renowned privacy hawk who’s served on the Senate intelligence committee since just after 9/11, has referred to the new provision as “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in… Read More "Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program"
The United States Army is employing a prototype generative artificial intelligence tool to identify references to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) for removal from training materials in line with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump. Officials at… Read More "The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials"
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move… Read More "Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work"
“The contractors and companies will hack more or less speculatively, motivated by profit to cast a wide net,” the DOJ official says. China, the official says, “is fostering reckless and indiscriminate targeting of vulnerable computers worldwide, even if it doesn’t… Read More "US Charges 12 Alleged Spies in China’s Freewheeling Hacker-for-Hire Ecosystem"
As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s homepage is a feed of its own X posts, but it also uses code that directs search engines to X.com… Read More "The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess"
When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans’ texts and calls in real time—that hacking… Read More "China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers"
