The U.S. government has a Microsoft problem. Market dominance, inertia, and savvy PR have almost completely insulated the hack-plagued company from meaningful oversight, even as Biden officials preach corporate accountability. My new WIRED story: wired.com/story/the-us-g…

The hacker group Cyber Army of Russia has sabotaged multiple US water utilities, and has ties to the GRU’s notorious Sandworm unit. They also talk a lot. So I asked for an interview and spent two weeks chatting with their spokesperson “Julia.” wired.com/story/cyber-ar…

It's finally time: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup to wiretap the world, is out *today*. Here is WIRED's adaption of that story following the craziest character I've ever investigated: a drug trafficker called Microsoft wired.com/story/inside-b…

NEW: Perplexity was using a secret AWS-hosted virtual machine to scrape the web. Major newsroom we spoke to observed its IP address in their server logs. Now Amazon is investigating. w/ Andrew Couts wired.com/story/aws-perp…

Crypto scams are netting billions of $...but you have to launder all that money somehow. Researchers say the Cambodian marketplace Huione Guarantee is a sinister one stop shop in the pig butchering ecosystem—$11B in sales + ties to Cambodia's ruling family wired.com/story/pig-butc…

NEW: Hackers claim to have leaked 1.1 TB of Disney's internal Slack messages, containing a massive trove of communications and other information. Security experts say the data looks legitimate. Disney says it's investigating. Lily Hay Newman reports: wired.com/story/disney-s…

Important context on today's world-altering crisis du jour from Costin Raiu, “Every security solution on the planet has had their CrowdStrike moments. This is nothing new but the scale of the event.” Story with Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) and Matt Burgess wired.com/story/crowdstr…

Killer reporting from ⁦Lily Hay Newman⁩ & ⁦Matt Burgess⁩ How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords | ⁦WIRED⁩ wired.com/story/infostea…

There have been a lot of voter data exposures, but most were troves of public info. This was multiple unsecured databases from counties in Illinois that contained driver's license # s, full and partial SSNs, voter registration docs, and death certificates wired.com/story/illinois…

"We’ve tried a lot of things, but we have not tried just leveling with people" Josh Corman ♘ wired.com/story/undisrup…

A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target’s Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities. Microsoft is working on fixes for the issue. wired.trib.al/ce85m3o

"I said, ‘Rude, I wouldn’t hack you. And also, rude, if I did hack you, I wouldn’t crash your phone.’ So I pulled the crash reports to see what was going on” Patrick Wardle wired.com/story/crash-re…

gotta have some ATM hacking DEF CON wired.com/story/vss-atm-…

hrm well this is a level of scoop that I can't really compete with, but you can read about James Kettle 's research right here! wired.com/story/web-timi… x.com/albinowax/stat…

On the hunt for corporate devices being sold secondhand, [email protected] had some wild finds including a trove of Apple Store data, a Mac Mini from the Foxconn assembly line and an iPhone 14 developer use prototype wired.com/story/apple-pr…

Bike component maker Shimano issued a software update to the pro cycling teams who use its wireless gear shifters after researchers found that hackers can spoof or jam the shifters' signals to sabotage riders. Consumers get the patch later this month. wired.com/story/shimano-…

An old Verizon demo app lurking deep in stock Android creates exposure for almost all Pixel phones. A fix from Google is coming but hasn't been pushed yet. And Palantir says it is concerned enough about the situation to ban all corporate Android devices wired.com/story/google-a…

Tigran Gambaryan is still in Nigerian jail as the country's courts adjourn for the summer. He has a herniated disc, can't walk, is on blood thinners for clots because he's bedridden. Also needs his tonsils removed due to throat infections. This can't go on. Bring Tigran home.

2. Veterinary medicine. Again, biased here--I have two elderly cats whose health I take very seriously. But I think there is room for a LOT of good writing on the veterinary industry, both when it comes to pets and to the food chain, pharma, etc.

Today marks six months that Tigran has been detained by the Nigerian government, now with his health failing in a notorious prison. His wife Yuki has released this video statement: youtube.com/watch?v=-rCDKY… Bring Tigran home.