Dialog, the invite-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members and past event participants last week that a database containing their personal information had been breached, supposedly by a criminal hacker. But a WIRED analysis found that the files were… Read More "Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed"
While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it did not answer questions about how it plans to use the technology in real-world environments.… Read More "The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed"
President Trump on Friday signed National Security Presidential Memorandum-12 (NSPM-12) to bolster the cybersecurity of National Security Systems (NSS). NSS includes the most sensitive computer systems in the US, used for the processing of classified information and for military and… Read More "White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity"
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the company removed the code this week without commenting on why or whether it plans to… Read More "The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones"
With new generations of AI models fueling both rapid software vulnerability discovery and the potential for faster exploitation by malicious hackers, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a new directive on Wednesday that requires more rapid and… Read More "CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats"
