Wired Security

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

Wired Security - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 6:00am
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
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Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

Wired Security - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 5:30am
A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.
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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Wired Security - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 6:30am
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Wired Security - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 5:00am
“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
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