Security, Spoken

Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

China’s Winter Games are overshadowed by human rights problems and overreaching state surveillance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple awarded a $100,500 bug bounty to the researcher who discovered the latest major vulnerability in its browser. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The politically motivated attack represents a new frontier for hacktivists—and won’t be the last of its kind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You know those “emergency” email addresses you can use to get into your email and other accounts in case you're locked out? Make sure they're up-to-date. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A data wiper posing as ransomware bears a discomfiting resemblance to the earlier wave of Russian cyberattacks that ended with NotPetya. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The flaws are now fixed, but speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Over a dozen alleged members of the notorious ransomware group have been arrested, but the Kremlin's critics are wary of the underlying motivation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The newest security measure is still in beta. But if you want to make use of it, here's what you need to know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Security experts say there's little reason for the criticism from Europe’s mobile operators and US limitations over the VPN-like iCloud tool. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to. Here's what to look out for. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The critical vulnerability is buried among endless open source code, and many cyber experts are stumped. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A beta “payments” feature now lets some users of the popular encrypted messaging app send MobileCoin around the globe. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Unless you go out of your way to install the patch, your system could be exposed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

So far, Log4Shell has resulted mostly in cryptomining and a little espionage. The really bad stuff is just around the corner. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You’ll never be able to get a clean slate—but you can significantly downsize your digital footprint. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It was a year of ransomware, surveillance, data breaches, and yes, more ransomware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” Project Zero security researchers have ever seen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hundreds of millions of devices are likely affected. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A referral program and partner sites have spurred the spread of invasive, AI-generated “nude” images. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework has security teams scrambling to put in a fix. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The move delivers a blow to the hackers behind sophisticated attacks on government agencies, think tanks, and other organizations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Russia-led campaign was a wake-up call to the industry, but there's no one solution to the threat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The attempt to block the site, which helps users mask their online activity, is the latest step in the country's efforts to control the internet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Academics claim they can sniff out the telltale signs of troll-like behavior. But is it really as simple as monitoring cute animal postings? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The platform joins Google and others in requiring stronger protections for its most vulnerable users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Using tricks to sidestep the app store’s restrictions, malware operators pillaged passwords, keystrokes, and other data. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An attacker exploited a vulnerability in MonoX Finance's smart contract to inflate the price of its digital token and then cash out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It's a technique that can hit thousands of victims—through no fault of their own. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hackers have targeted the country's trains, gas stations, and airline infrastructure, as cyber conflict with Israel continues to escalate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A hacking group is targeting a broad range of organizations, taking advantage of vulnerabilities that have been patched but not yet updated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trick—until the company blocked their access. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

From faked emails to a hacked voter registration database, a new indictment offers fresh details on the attempted interference. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Security researchers have found signs that the pervasive hacking and misinformation campaign comes not from Moscow but from Minsk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the CPU to bypass the security measures protecting some of its most sensitive data. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Visitors to pro-democracy and media sites in the region were infected with malware that could download files, steal data, and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The social network got huge by ignoring who you know. That's increasingly no longer the case. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

By arresting one alleged hacker associated with REVil and seizing millions from another, the US has made clear that ransomware comes with a cost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An attack attempt in 2020 proves the UAS threat is real—and not enough is being done to stop it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Personal Information Protection Law gives authorities the power to impose huge fines and blacklist companies. But the biggest impact may be felt outside the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices