Security

Choke Points

Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank

Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.

Eyes Wide Shut

The Secrets of a US Spyware King

Kim Zetter

Choke Points

How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Taweel, and Elena DeBre

Cyberattacks and Hacks

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Lily Hay Newman

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.

Isabella Ward

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later

The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.

Isabella Ward

Privacy

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

Andy Greenberg

The Best VPNs That Actually Protect You Online

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

Jacob Roach

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

Paresh Dave and Dhruv Mehrotra

Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear

Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cybersecurity implications.

Paresh Dave

Security Advice

The Password Managers You Should Use Instead of Your Browser

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

Scott Gilbertson

You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.

Lily Hay Newman

How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

Gia Chaudry

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Security News

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.

Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, and Dell Cameron

The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Drones

The new joint operation uses laser-based technology capable of detecting, tracking, and disabling commercial drones linked to human and drug trafficking.

Fernanda González

OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.

Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, and Dhruv Mehrotra