US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers

A Wired news roundup highlights several security and privacy issues: researchers showed WhatsApp's discovery feature can be abused to enumerate billions of phone numbers; the Aisuru IoT botnet launched extremely large DDoS attacks (reported up to 15.72 Tbps against an Azure endpoint and other >20 Tbps events), with expanding capabilities including credential stuffing and HTTPS floods; US Border Patrol’s covert license-plate reader predictive program raises mass-surveillance concerns; the FBI reportedly accessed an encrypted Signal group used by court-watch activists; and other items include Cisco warnings about aging infrastructure, a SolarWinds SEC case dismissal, and conference air-quality monitoring experiments.