The week may have started relatively quiet, but it ended with a shock: Google security researchers revealed Thursday night that it had observed a hacking campaign that hit thousands of iPhones, completely upending conventional wisdom about iOS security. Apple patched the problem in February, but it had persisted for at least two years prior. So, yikes!
In another concerning development, security researchers at Belgian university KU Leuven discovered that they could crack the encryption of a Tesla Model S key fob, letting them clone it within seconds. That's bad enough as it is, but made a little worse by this being the second year in a row the KU Leuven team pulled off this particular trick. The key fobs Tesla made available last year to help fix the problem held up only slightly better to a similar attack. This time, though, Tesla's pushing out an over-the-air fix that should shore up both the car's locking mechanism and the fob itself. Until next year, at least.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has at this point repeatedly denied a report in Axios that he earnestly proposed dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane. But if he did happen to float the idea, he wouldn't have been anywhere near the first. WIRED contributor Garrett Graff traced the long-standing tradition, dating back to the Atomic Age, of scientists suggesting nuclear strikes against everything from polar ice caps to the Sahara desert.
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