I’ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to detect and flag spoofed calls, I was ready to hear more. What I didn’t expect…
Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently…
Then he used reverse psychology, asking her if she was being real with him. “I don’t want someone who’s gonna play around me,” he said, insisting that he lived in Florida with his daughter while…
The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also long been aware of easy fixes for the problem. The Pentagon adopted almost none of…
A space-themed White House website that mocks immigrants and compares them to extraterrestrials claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested almost half a million people in nearly 12,000 cities and towns in the United States….
“We would not say that every single phishing message we observed was definitively caused by a direct compromise of the hotel’s own internal systems,” the researcher says. Phishing messages could have been sent using information…
For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now…
A WIRED investigation this week found that a former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that offers firearms training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were deadly….
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic…
After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is coming back—at least at very low levels. Iran’s more than 90 million citizens have been without internet…
