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A New Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords

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A New Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords

Lily Hay Newman

Deliveroo customers keep getting hacked using the same old trick

Hacking

Deliveroo customers keep getting hacked using the same old trick

Matt Burgess

Pokémon Go was a warning about the rise of surveillance capitalism

Privacy

Pokémon Go was a warning about the rise of surveillance capitalism

Sanjana Varghese

Facebook Takes Down Hundreds of Fake Pages From Iran

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Facebook Takes Down Hundreds of Fake Pages From Iran

Lily Hay Newman

The biggest ever data dump just hit a colossal 2.2 billion accounts

Hacking

The biggest ever data dump just hit a colossal 2.2 billion accounts

Matt Burgess

Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive

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Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive

Louise Matsakis

Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

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Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

Emily Dreyfuss

Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2B Records

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Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2B Records

Andy Greenberg

The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself

national security

The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself

Lily Hay Newman

Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

internet

Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

Lily Hay Newman

Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug

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Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug

Brian Barrett

Security Isn't Enough. Big Tech Needs 'Abusability' Testing

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Security Isn't Enough. Big Tech Needs 'Abusability' Testing

Andy Greenberg

Privacy Wins in Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling

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Privacy Wins in Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling

Emily Dreyfuss

The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging All Its Chat Apps

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The Pitfalls of Facebook Merging All Its Chat Apps

Lily Hay Newman

The Roger Stone Indictment: 4 Key Takeaways

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The Roger Stone Indictment: 4 Key Takeaways

Garrett M. Graff

One Man’s Obsessive Fight for His Cambridge Analytica Data

Privacy

One Man’s Obsessive Fight for His Cambridge Analytica Data

Issie Lapowsky

Is China really using Huawei to hack the world's communications?

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Is China really using Huawei to hack the world's communications?

Matt Burgess

It’s Not Quite Doomsday o’Clock—But It Should Be

WIRED Opinion

It’s Not Quite Doomsday o’Clock—But It Should Be

Kyle L. Evanoff

Nest Cams Hijacked for PewDiePie and North Korea Pranks

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Nest Cams Hijacked for PewDiePie and North Korea Pranks

Lily Hay Newman

More than 100,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse were removed from the web in 2018

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More than 100,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse were removed from the web in 2018

James Temperton