Security / Security News
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Did a Chinese University Hacking Competition Target a Real Victim?
Capture the flag hacking contests at security conferences generally serve two purposes: to help participants develop and demonstrate computer hacking…
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The Mystery of Hezbollah’s Deadly Exploding Pagers
The AP-900 runs on two AAA batteries, which, like any battery, could be induced to explode, but likely not with…
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Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Shortly following reports of an apparent second assassination attempt against former US president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump,…
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Apple’s New Passwords App May Solve Your Login Nightmares
Apple’s latest iPhone software update, iOS 18, arrives today and includes a new app: Passwords. For the first time, Apple…
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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 environment, known…
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‘Terrorgram’ Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along
On Monday, United States prosecutors in Sacramento, California, unveiled a 15-count indictment accusing Dallas Erin Humber, 34, and Matthew Robert…
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Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
The GAZEploit attack consists of two parts, says Zhan, one of the lead researchers. First, the researchers created a way…
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Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works
The generative AI boom has, in many ways, been a privacy bust thus far, as services slurp up web data…
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Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data
Your devices may be revealing a lot more about your life than you realize. During the Democratic National Convention in…
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Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database
Thousands of people’s highly sensitive health details, including audio and video of therapy sessions, were openly accessible on the internet,…
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