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Thousands of electronic lockers in gyms, offices, schools and more could be vulnerable to attacks by criminals using cheap hacking tools to access administrator keys, according…

There are plenty of secrets to find online, if you know where to look. Since fall 2021, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi has been building a…

In a final email to WIRED, on the eve of Cecil’s Defcon speech, Macielewski wrote that he believes those who allege he cheated are using flawed…

It’s been a long time since anyone thought about Apple’s all-in-one router and network storage, Time Capsule. Launched in 2008 and discontinued in 2018, it’s all…

Demand for graphics processing units (GPUs) has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems expand the need for processing power. While most…

Defcon, the annual security conference in Las Vegas, has a grand tradition of hacking ATMs: unlocking them with safe-cracking techniques, tricking them to steal users’ personal…

In a background briefing to WIRED, AMD emphasized the difficulty of exploiting Sinkclose. To exploit the vulnerability, a hacker would need to already have access to…

Finally, HID stated that “to the best of its knowledge,” no encoder keys have been leaked or exposed, and “none of these issues have been exploited…

“We think we’ve created the first laser microphone that’s actually modulated in the radio frequency range,” Kamkar says. “Once you’ve got a radio signal, you can…

When a glitch in a software update from security firm CrowdStrike unintentionally caused digital chaos around the world last month, the first sign was Windows computers…