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Enlarge / Well, that whole thing clearly worked out well, didn’t it? (credit: JASON LEE/AFP/Getty Images) Remember the good old days, when the US and China were supposedly working out new norms for the cybers, and China was going to stop all that hacking of US companies to steal intellectual property? It turns out the […]
Enlarge / Fitbit’s Alta HR, a fitness wristband with continuous heart rate monitoring. (credit: Getty | Dave Kotinsky) San Jose, California, police charged 90-year-old Anthony (Tony) Vincent Aiello in the gruesome death of his 67-year-old stepdaughter after obtaining dramatic health data recorded by her Fitbit Alta HR device. The stepdaughter, Karen Navarra, was found dead […]
On this episode, WIRED’s editor in chief Nick Thompson talks to best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari and Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris about how social platforms expertly manipulate our thinking. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a5581f389368d1bf0bd6da8/master/pass/FEATURED-WIRED-Gear-logo-NEW.jpg
The latest wave of accusations against Russia over alleged government-ordered hacking looks very much like a coordinated media attack timed with a NATO meeting of cyberwarfare, the Russian ambassador to UK told RT. On Thursday, the UK and the Netherlands claimed that they had foiled cyber attacks by Russian government hackers while the US indicted […]
The National Security Operations Center at NSA, photographed in 2012—the nerve center of the NSA’s “signals intelligence” monitoring. A former NSA coder has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for bringing home the code that drove much of the NSA’s signals intelligence operations. (credit: National Security Agency) Nghia Hoang Pho, a 68-year-old former National […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) asked an Israel-based surveillance company to spy on a prince, a Qatari emir, and other rivals by hacking their phones, according to leaked emails obtained by the New York Times. The emails cited in the Times report, which was published on Friday, were submitted in lawsuits against Israel-based NSO Group. […]
Matt Linton says he was asked to leave Caesars Palace Thursday night after a tweet about an “attack” was reported to the police. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b6db4b6f6d47809bff3a5d8/master/pass/caesars-458582883.jpg
The Justice Department announced the arrest of three members of notorious cybercrime group Fin7—and detailed some of their methods in the process. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b62097e798e620b765a82ae/master/pass/creditcards-949126662.jpg
The 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the DNC allegedly used $ 95,000 worth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to fund their operation. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b493b3532ccf1343a8aa9a8/master/pass/Bitcoin-Mining-Biz-934468372.jpg
Apple released iOS 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1, and watchOS 4.3.2 today with minor bugfixes for its iPhones, iPads, HomePods, Apple TVs, and Apple Watches, but there was one surprise in the software: USB Restricted Mode, a feature designed to block iPhone-cracking USB devices used by law enforcement agencies, has finally arrived. USB Restricted Mode was fi…Read More
