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Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users

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Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users

Brian Barrett

The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages

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The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages

Lily Hay Newman

Firefox is reinventing its Android app to undo Chrome's monopoly

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Firefox is reinventing its Android app to undo Chrome's monopoly

Matt Burgess

How Hackers Turn Microsoft Excel's Own Features Against It

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How Hackers Turn Microsoft Excel's Own Features Against It

Lily Hay Newman

Hackers Are Poking at a MacOS Flaw Apple Left Unfixed

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Hackers Are Poking at a MacOS Flaw Apple Left Unfixed

Brian Barrett

I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk

WIRED Opinion

I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk

Dan Salmon

Hackers, Likely Chinese, Targeted 10 Telcos to Grab Metadata

soft cell

Hackers, Likely Chinese, Targeted 10 Telcos to Grab Metadata

Andy Greenberg

The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All

False Promise

The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All

Zeynep Tufekci

He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back

Hacked and Alone

He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back

Stephanie Clifford

A huge new Russian propaganda effort is attacking much more than Facebook

Russia

A huge new Russian propaganda effort is attacking much more than Facebook

Will Bedingfield and Gian M. Volpicelli

Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange

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Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange

Emily Dreyfuss

Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data

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Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data

Louise Matsakis

Porn websites are totally confused about the UK's porn block plans

Privacy

Porn websites are totally confused about the UK's porn block plans

Matt Burgess

Iran Shot Down a US Drone, MacBook Battery Recall, and More

Tech in Two

Iran Shot Down a US Drone, MacBook Battery Recall, and More

Alex Baker-Whitcomb

Iranian Hackers Launch a New US Campaign as Tensions Mount

cyberwar

Iranian Hackers Launch a New US Campaign as Tensions Mount

Andy Greenberg

The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster

global hawk

The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster

Lily Hay Newman

This is how age verification will work under the UK's porn law

Privacy

This is how age verification will work under the UK's porn law

Matt Burgess

Under Trump, the Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned

WIRED Opinion

Under Trump, the Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned

Ishan Mehta

It's official. The UK's porn block is delayed for at least 6 months

Privacy

It's official. The UK's porn block is delayed for at least 6 months

Matt Burgess

Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private

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Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private

Lily Hay Newman