At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleaguesβ cell phones.
Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplierβs inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years.
Two security researchers bought cheap domainsβincluding noreply.net and deleteduser.comβand set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are sending them corporate secrets.
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protestersβ free-speech rightsβbut the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffsβ encrypted communications.
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakesβand 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
Using chatbots for medical advice could elicit hallucinations and even expose you to security and privacy risks. Hereβs whatβs at stake and how to stay safe.
ESETβs Jake Moore used smart glasses, deepfakes and face swaps to βhackβ widely-used facial recognition systems β and he'll demo it all at RSAC 2026