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US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme
2025-02-04 14:45

Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' New York feds today unsealed a five-count criminal indictment charging a 22-year-old Canadian math prodigy with exploiting...

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
2025-02-04 12:01

Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI for creating political...

US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
2025-01-31 13:18

Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an October breach. [...]

US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
2025-01-31 13:18

Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an October breach. [...]

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral
2025-01-30 18:15

‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’ interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China's Salt Typhoon breached American...

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies
2025-01-27 22:16

Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to...

Subaru Starlink flaw let hackers hijack cars in US and Canada
2025-01-24 17:35

Security researchers have discovered an arbitrary account takeover flaw in Subaru's Starlink service that could let attackers track, control, and hijack vehicles in the United States, Canada, and...

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional
2025-01-24 04:31

'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance...

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen
2025-01-22 01:02

Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised...

Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
2025-01-20 18:54

Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state....