Joseph Cox

404 Media co-owner and journalist

Joseph Cox is an award-winning investigative journalist focused on generating impact. His work has triggered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines, shut down tech companies, and much more.

Outsourcing

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

Dec 1, 2025 9:00 AM

Puff Piece

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

Aug 8, 2025 9:00 AM

Duty Free

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

Jun 10, 2025 9:00 AM

Digitized

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account

Jun 9, 2025 10:00 AM

Worldwide Web

The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel

Feb 11, 2025 11:00 PM

Overexposed

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Jan 9, 2025 4:05 PM

Swiped

Inside the Massive Crime Industry That’s Hacking Billion-Dollar Companies

Nov 4, 2024 6:00 AM

It's a trap

Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

Jun 4, 2024 6:00 AM

Hacker Lexicon

Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click

Dec 9, 2015 2:26 PM

Hacks

Apple Removes 300 Infected Apps from App Store

Sep 21, 2015 11:50 AM

Hack Brief

Hack Brief: Malware Sneaks Into the Chinese iOS App Store

Sep 18, 2015 1:19 PM

Hack Brief

Hack Brief: Oh Good, Anyone Can Access a List of Unpatched Firefox Bugs

Sep 17, 2015 3:33 PM

Security

The Most Secure Way to Communicate? An iPod Touch

Aug 19, 2015 5:30 AM

politics

Let's School the Presidential Hopefuls on Cybersecurity

Aug 14, 2015 7:00 AM

Security

Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers. It's 2015

Jul 26, 2015 7:00 AM

Surveillance

The FBI Spent $775K on Hacking Team's Spy Tools Since 2011

Jul 6, 2015 3:00 PM

WIRED Opinion

The Dark Web as You Know It Is a Myth

Jun 18, 2015 7:00 AM

Uncategorized

Inside the Deep Web Drug Lab

Mar 27, 2015 12:00 AM

Uncategorized

The Secret Side of the Web Is Home to Heroes, Not Just Crooks

Jun 5, 2014 6:00 AM