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Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

What Comes Around

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

Peter Guest

Ransomware Groups Are Bouncing Back Faster From Law Enforcement Busts

Second Acts

Ransomware Groups Are Bouncing Back Faster From Law Enforcement Busts

Andy Greenberg

The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants

The Lives of Others

The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants

Morgan Meaker

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Change Your Settings

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Byron Tau

How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security

Insecurities

How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security

Eric Geller

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

snack fight

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

Security Roundup

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

Matt Burgess

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

Pin Drop

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

Dhruv Mehrotra and Joey Scott

Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning

Stranger Things

Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning

Dell Cameron

Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Future-Resistant Encryption

Planning Ahead

Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Future-Resistant Encryption

Matt Burgess

A Top White House Cyber Official Sees the ‘Promise and Peril’ in AI

WIRED Q&A

A Top White House Cyber Official Sees the ‘Promise and Peril’ in AI

Garrett M. Graff

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

Code Words

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

Andy Greenberg

A Global Police Operation Just Took Down the Notorious LockBit Ransomware Gang

Busted

A Global Police Operation Just Took Down the Notorious LockBit Ransomware Gang

Matt Burgess

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface

Buried Issues

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface

Justin Ling

How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

Security Roundup

How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

Andrew Couts

SpaceX Launched Military Satellites Designed to Track Hypersonic Missiles

sky games

SpaceX Launched Military Satellites Designed to Track Hypersonic Missiles

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

Unfair Warning

Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

Dell Cameron

Elon Musk’s X Gave Check Marks to Terrorist Group Leaders, Report Says

verifiable mess

Elon Musk’s X Gave Check Marks to Terrorist Group Leaders, Report Says

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights

Private Matters

Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights

Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts

‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

Circuit Breaker

‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

Matt Burgess