The recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the last six months. Between April and June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices—which at the time marked a record high for any quarter… Read More "CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year"
The sensitive personal details of more than 450 people holding “top secret” US government security clearances were left exposed online, new research seen by WIRED shows. The people’s details were included in a database of more than 7,000 individuals who… Read More "Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website"
The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s fundamental reliance on so-called hyperscalers like AWS and the challenges for… Read More "Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web"
The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED. The technology would… Read More "DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks"
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting… Read More "ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team"
Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more. Source link Read More "Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure"
VPNs, Compared Other VPNs We’ve Tested EventVPN is the new hotness in the VPN world. It’s a free, ad-supported VPN that comes from ExpressVPN. Ads and VPNs don’t really mix, but EventVPN says it’s able to offer a free service… Read More "6 Best VPN Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed"
Google wants you to start using passkeys. Its vision is to “progress toward a passwordless future,” allowing you to store passkeys in the Google Password Manager service. For websites that support the login method, Google now allows you to generate,… Read More "How to Use Passkeys With Google Password Manager (2025)"
Tile trackers, used to locate everything from lost keys to stolen pets, are used by more than 88 million people worldwide, according to Tile’s parent company, Life360. But researchers who examined the tracking technology have found design flaws that would… Read More "Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say"
Vehicle information. You can wrap all of your vehicle information up into a single entry in your password manager. Scan your license and title, add insurance and vehicle information, and maybe loop in personal property tax receipts. NordPass, 1Password, and… Read More "How to Use a Password Manager to Share Your Logins After You Die (2025)"
