Author: Emily Dreyfuss / Source: WIRED
This week started off with one of tech’s biggest events of the year: an Apple product release. One of the most interesting launches to come out of Cupertino was rectangular, incredibly thin, and made of metal. But it isn’t a gadget, it’s a credit card—the Apple Card—which the company says will have better security than any other. WIRED’s own Lily Hay Newman dug into that claim and has some tips on how to get those security benefits now, before the card is even released.
Newman had a busy week. On Monday she explained how to check for a tainted software update that installed malicious backdoors on thousands of Asus computers, a sophisticated hack first reported by Motherboard. She was first to reveal new details about Mastercard’s plan for a digital identity, a useful idea that has proved tricky to implement in practice. By Thursday, she found that HTTPS encryption may not be, well, all that secure all the time. Finally, Newman closed out the week with a report on the British government’s finding that Huawei, the Chinese telecom equipment maker, has major security flaws in its product code.
Andy Greenberg wrote a guide to LockerGoga, the ransomware that’s been crippling industrial firms. Ideas contributor Zeynep Tufekci argued that machine learning shouldn’t have to spy on you in order to learn. I told you the story of how walkie-talkie app Zello has become a lifeline to Venezuelans amid a humanitarian crisis. Garrett Graff explained why attorney general William Barr’s four-page letter summarizing the Mueller report raises more questions than it answers.
And we took you on the trail of the “robocall king,” with a fascinating story written by Alex Palmer.
Of course, there was more! Each week we round up all the news we didn’t cover in depth. Click on the headlines to read the full stories.
And stay safe out there.…
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