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Noah Shachtman
Security
Jul 10, 2008 9:00 AM

How To: Hack a Spy Cam

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Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at WIRED and a contributing writer for The New York Times’ opinion section. Shachtman previously served as editor in chief of Rolling Stone, where he led the storied outlet to a Polk Award and its first-ever Emmy nomination. Before that, he was the editor in ... Read More
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Keep an Eye on Home From Anywhere With This Discounted Smart Camera
Keep an Eye on Home From Anywhere With This Discounted Smart Camera
This feature-packed security camera is the perfect way to keep an eye on your home and fam from afar.
Simon Hill
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
Lily Hay Newman
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
Lily Hay Newman
Split Tunneling Is Your VPN’s Best Feature. Here’s How to Make the Most of It
Split Tunneling Is Your VPN’s Best Feature. Here’s How to Make the Most of It
This feature common to VPN services gives you protection and privacy specifically when and where you need it.
David Nield
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
Paresh Dave
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Lily Hay Newman
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
Matt Burgess
‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
Matt Burgess
AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
Lily Hay Newman
My Favorite LED Mask Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
My Favorite LED Mask Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
The Shark CryoGlow face mask is my favorite LED device, and it’s $299 on Amazon Prime Day. Act fast.
Boutayna Chokrane
HTC Made Smart Glasses That Are Way More Private
HTC Made Smart Glasses That Are Way More Private
These smart glasses do just about everything Meta glasses can, but they're not tied to a social media platform.
Boone Ashworth
Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records
Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records
Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.
Dhruv Mehrotra
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