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You might be used to typing out a lengthy password every time you log in to your computer, and it's essential that you have one in place—otherwise anyone could come along and get at your files and apps. But what if we told you there was a better way? Both Windows and macOS support various biometric security options ...

The profile names, email addresses, and phone numbers of over 500 million Facebook users have been circulating publicly online for nearly a week. It took days for Facebook to finally acknowledge the root cause, an issue the company says it fixed in 2019. But now researchers are saying Facebook knew about similar vul...

When the encrypted communications app Signal launched nearly seven years ago, it brought the promise of the strongest available encryption to a dead-simple interface for calling and texting. Now, Signal is incorporating what it describes as a way to bring that same ease of use and security to a third, fundamentally ...

The UK is planning a new attack on end-to-end encryption, with the Home Office set to spearhead efforts designed to discourage Facebook from further rolling out the technology to its messaging apps.This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Home Secretary Priti Patel is planning to deliver a keynote speech at a chi...

You may not have used them, but your phone and computer come with a variety of options for quickly beaming files between devices without getting Wi-Fi or the internet at large involved. The idea is that users can quickly transfer data from one device to another, or share files with family and friends in a convenient...

As smartphone apps track our every move, a group of technologists in the US and UK this week offered guidelines for the ethical uses of location data. Leaders of the American Geographical Society and Britain's mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey, want companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data c...

Your emails know more about you than you might think, like when you open them or when you forward them to others. But you can reclaim your privacy.

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.

The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service.

The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.

New research has dug into the openings iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.

A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.

WikiLeaks successor DDoSecrets has amassed a controversial new collection of corporate secrets and is sharing them in the name of transparency.

It remains unclear how effective the warnings will be, but the attempt alone is a promising development.