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Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

Blacked Out

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

Zeyi Yang

ICE Has Spyware Now

Security Roundup

ICE Has Spyware Now

Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, and Lily Hay Newman

Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn

Candid Camera

Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn

Andy Greenberg

DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims

Security Roundup

DOGE Put Everyone’s Social Security Data at Risk, Whistleblower Claims

Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, and Dell Cameron

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Poof

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Makena Kelly and David Gilbert

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Password Please

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Matt Burgess

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

Blunt Force Trauma

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Security Roundup

Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Lily Hay Newman

The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

Keeping PACER

The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

Lily Hay Newman

Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

Hideouts

Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

Dell Cameron

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

Delete Thee

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca

The US Court Records System Has Been Hacked

Security Roundup

The US Court Records System Has Been Hacked

Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts

A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data

Watch List

A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data

Lily Hay Newman

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

Puff Piece

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

Andy Greenberg and Joseph Cox

Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History

Security Roundup

Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History

Dell Cameron

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

Workarounds

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

ID Please

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats

Carry Off

A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats

Andy Greenberg

How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

Uncanny Valley

How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, Katie Drummond, and Dhruv Mehrotra

China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Breached the US National Guard for Nearly a Year

Security Roundup

China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Breached the US National Guard for Nearly a Year

Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg, and Dell Cameron