Expand your mind, man. Opsec is really all about time travel—taking small, protective steps now before you have a disaster on your hands later. If you’re not on auto-delete, then an explosive, emotional text exchange with the person you’re currently… Read More "The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens"
On November 21, 2023, field intelligence officers within the Department of Homeland Security quietly deleted a trove of Chicago Police Department records. It was not a routine purge. For seven months, the data—records that had been requested on roughly 900… Read More "DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules"
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After Myanmar’s military junta raided a notorious scam compound and destroyed buildings with explosives in October, officials claimed the country would entirely “eradicate” forced scamming within its borders. Now newly released satellite images of the targeted KK Park scam center… Read More "The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’"
Amid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack and moved to contain the breach. CBO provides nonpartisan financial and economic… Read More "The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb"
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that security teams at tech companies have more code than ever to… Read More "Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting"
Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another team of researchers found that they could still do exactly that using a similar technique. The issue… Read More "US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers"
Aging digital infrastructure equipment like routers, network switches, and network-attached storage—has long posed a silent risk to organizations. In the short term, it’s cheaper and easier to just leave those boxes running in a forgotten closet. But this infrastructure may… Read More "With the Rise of AI, Cisco Sounds an Urgent Alarm About the Risks of Aging Tech"
In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team—broken TVs, missing cash, lost electronics, even a stolen pornographic video—the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department launched an undercover sting with help from the FBI to root out… Read More "Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List"
WhatsApp’s mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone’s phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they’re on the service, and often their profile picture and name,… Read More "A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers"
The United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to satellite internet infrastructure used in a scam compound in Myanmar. The action is part of a larger US law enforcement interagency initiative announced this week called the… Read More "A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets"
