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After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition…

Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked…

The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also…

Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for…

As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it…

Planning a big night out at Madison Square Garden? Have fun—but don’t say we didn’t warn you.A WIRED investigation this…

Amid horrific threats from United States president Donald Trump as the US and Iran negotiated a ceasefire, the US government…

A WIRED investigation based on Department of Homeland Security records this week revealed the identities of paramilitary Border Patrol agents…

Handala’s second claim, however—that it hacked the FBI—seems, for now, to be fiction. All evidence points to Handala having breached…

United States law enforcement this week took down the Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets, a slate of cybercriminal tools…

The United States and Israel launched a war in Iran last week that has already killed more than 1,200 Iranians…

Congressional Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee released a report this week pinpointing more than $20.9 billion in consumer losses…

The widespread protests in Iran have exposed both Tehran’s brutal tactics in the streets, where state authorities have killed thousands…

An analysis by WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used…

As the standoff between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially…

Law enforcement authorities in the United States have for years circumvented the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment by purchasing data on…