Major Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
The Shadow Brokers hacker group is back with another trove of NSA documents including Windows exploits and evidence of financial…
Watch Workers Learn How to Filter Obscene and Violent Photos From Dating Sites
Directors Adrian Chen and Ciaran Cassidy give WIRED a first look at their disturbing short documentary on content moderation. The…
Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck
Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is suing the EPA for staffers’ Signal messages. It may hit the encrypted limits of federal…
Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them
In his Uber exit interview, top car hacker Charlie Miller warns of the dangers of insecure autonomous vehicles. The post…
How Hackers Hijacked a Bank’s Entire Online Operation
Researchers at Kaspersky say a Brazilian bank’s entire online footprint was commandeered in a five-hour heist. The post How Hackers…
Hackers Are Emptying ATMs With a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear
Step aside, ATM skimmers. This new attack empties out all the cash in minutes. The post Hackers Are Emptying ATMs…
Russian Hackers Have Used the Same Backdoor for Two Decades
A twenty-year-old record of one of the earliest ever cyberespionage campaigns suggests the same spy group still be alive and…
Marco Rubio Says Hack Attempts From Russia Targeted Him, Too
Attempted intrusions against any senator aren’t surprising. But they’re a reminder election hacking shouldn’t be a partisan issue. The post…
How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria
The strange story of Amir Taaki—Bitcoin coder, anti-ISIS revolutionary, and British terrorism defendant. The post How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder…
WikiLeaks Reveals How the CIA Can Hack a Mac’s Hidden Code
The leak shows how physical access hacks can plant undetectable spying code deep in a Macbook’s firmware. The post WikiLeaks…