A WIRED investigation this week offers insight into a predictive policing program in Bristol, England that has involved 23 separate models over more than a decade, intended to score the likelihood of specific individuals will perpetrate or be victims of… Read More "Security News This Week: LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again"
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"
Fat Joe is a superfan, both of the New York Knicks and their controversial owner, Jim Dolan. The rapper celebrated with Dolan in Cleveland when the team clinched its first finals appearance in decades. When the Knicks organization came under… Read More "Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities"
The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before operating system and anti-malware protections start. Beginning June 24, three certificates… Read More "A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security"
You got a World Cup ticket. It arrived in your inbox with a QR code, professional branding, and a confirmation email that looked like the real thing. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. For years, spotting a scam was relatively simple. A suspicious… Read More "World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot"
As fears about AI hacking capabilities grow, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, including an improved version of its limited-access security-specialized model GPT-5.5-Cyber, expanded international work with governments and other institutions to give them “trusted access” to… Read More "OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos"
Meta is testing face-recognition software built by Rank One, a company that supplies the US military and regional police departments, WIRED found in an investigation this week. Meta has been exploring the possibility of adding face-recognition tech to its smart… Read More "Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data"
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware—was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new research findings released this week. Meanwhile, top Google security staff warned this week that the… Read More "Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email"
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services. The company has been in talks with the White… Read More "‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What"
As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what looked like a SQL injection vulnerability—a common flaw that allows a hacker to input commands… Read More "Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival"
