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Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers
What a week! On Monday, police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione and charged him in the murder of UnitedHealthcare…
US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies led by Britain’s National Crime Agency announced a takedown operation this…
Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked
A joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and Netzpolitik.org uncovered that US companies legally collecting digital ad…
Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an…
Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops
Maybe you already heard, but Donald Trump will be president of the United States again. The far-right is…
Florida Man Accused of Hacking Disney World Menus, Changing Font to Wingdings
With just days to go until the 2024 presidential election in the United States, WIRED reported on documents…
Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the…
The US Could Finally Ban Inane Forced Password Changes
Researchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock…
Iranian Hackers Tried to Give Hacked Trump Campaign Emails to Dems
The week was dominated by news that thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices were exploding across Lebanon…
Security News This Week: A Creative Trick Makes ChatGPT Spit Out Bomb-Making Instructions
After Apple’s product launch event this week, WIRED did a deep dive on the company’s new secure server…