The Last Hour Before Prigozhin’s Plane Crash
At around 5:30 pm Moscow time on August 23, the Embraer Legacy 600 private business jet took to the skies. Launching from an airport near the Russian capital, the 13-seater plane, which has a white…
Security
Google’s New Feature Ensures Your Pixel Phone Hasn’t Been Hacked. Here’s How It Works
Malware can be inserted into software code—Android software code, in this case—before a new handset gets put in the box. Remember that, as well as the basic Android operating system, you have additions by carriers…
A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite ‘Offers’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
WIRED contacted multiple email addresses listed on CPABuild’s website, as well as sending questions via a contact form, but we did not receive any response. The company website does not name any individuals who are…
A New Attack Reveals Everything You Type With 95 Percent Accuracy
But that wasn’t all. The same day, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) accidentally published the names and roles of 10,000 officers and staff in response to a Freedom of Information request. The breach,…
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft rolls out 90 updates for Windows, Office
With its August Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft pushed out 90 updates for the Windows and Office platforms. The latest fixes include another update for Microsoft Exchange (along with with a warning about failed updates to…
Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising
If you live in Russia, there’s no avoiding Yandex. The tech giant—often referred to as “Russia’s Google”—is part of daily life for millions of people. It dominates online search, ride-hailing, and music streaming, while its…
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
For the past three years, hapless cybercriminals trying to steal data or deploy malware have been stumbling upon a virtual machine hosted in the United States. Like countless others, this machine’s weak password could easily…
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
It didn’t take long. Just months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot upended the startup economy, cybercriminals and hackers are claiming to have created their own versions of the text-generating technology. The systems could, theoretically at least,…
Researchers build a scary Mac attack using AI and sound
A UK research team based at Durham University has identified an exploit that could allow attackers to figure out what you type on your MacBook Pro — based on the sound each keyboard tap makes….
The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes
Bruno Chareyron, a nuclear physics engineer and laboratory director for France’s nongovernmental Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, also scoffed at the soil explanation. Instead, he told reporters at the time that the…