Credit to Author: Will Knight, Paresh Dave, Leah Feiger| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:19:27 +0000
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:21:41 +0000
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Credit to Author: Paresh Dave, Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:59:54 +0000
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:14 +0000
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
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