{"id":233606,"date":"2026-04-18T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:45:17","slug":"it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU\u2019s New Age-Verification App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/\">It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU\u2019s New Age-Verification App<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-18 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Planning a big<\/span> night out at Madison Square Garden? Have fun\u2014but don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t warn you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A WIRED investigation this week revealed new details about the private surveillance state instituted by MSG owner Jim Dolan and his head of security, John Eversole. According to court records and WIRED sources, visitors to the Garden and some other Dolan-owned venues have been subjected to face recognition, social media monitoring, in-person surveillance, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The US government\u2019s warrantless wiretap powers hit a roadblock this week. Despite a push from President Donald Trump for a long-term reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 spy program, 20 Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted against a full reauthorization, forcing Speaker Mike Johnson to merely extend the program for an additional 10 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban and Oakley AI smartglasses have an image problem\u2014for good reason. More than 70 civil society groups, including the ACLU and the National Organization for Women, sent a letter to the company this week, demanding that it abandon any plans it may have to equip its AI glasses with face-recognition features. The groups argue that including face recognition in the wearable devices, which can already surreptitiously record videos of people, would further erode any semblance of privacy and potentially facilitate stalkers, domestic abusers, and federal agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Nonconsensual deepfake nudes are a scourge at schools around the world, according to an analysis by WIRED and Indicator. By tracking publicly reported incidents of deepfake \u201cnudify\u201d tech used against middle- and high-school-aged girls, we were able to identify more than 600 victims in 28 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">You might think banning a $20 billion black market for scammers from your platform would be a no-brainer. But not if you\u2019re Telegram. A WIRED investigation found that the messaging app continued to host Xinbi Guarantee despite the UK government\u2019s designating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU\u2019s New Age-Verification App https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69e297a5b6d175715986c107\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/security_EU_Age_Getty_1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-233606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233608,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606\/revisions\/233608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}