Security, Spoken
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Apple's M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw
The covert channel bug demonstrates a fundamental fact of CPUs: even new ones have vulnerabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
BravoMovies isn't real. But it puts in a remarkable amount of effort trying to trick you into believing that it is. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Blurry Satellite Images of Palestine and Israel Make Rebuilding Harder
Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Goodbye Internet Explorer—and Good Riddance
Microsoft will finally put the venerated, vulnerability-ridden browser out to pasture, but it's still got a year to cause some trouble. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Avoid Those Infuriating Cookie Pop-Ups
Cookie consent notices are everywhere, and opting out of tracking is a pain. It doesn’t have to be this way. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Avoid App Store Scams
Apple’s and Google’s approval guidelines are notoriously lax—and they won’t keep out apps that are after your money and data. Here’s how to sniff them out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ransomware's Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data
Even when you pay to get a decryption key, you may find your files are still locked up by another strain of malware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware
An attack has crippled the company's operations—and cut off a large portion of the East Coast's fuel supply—in an ominous development for critical infrastructure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
DarkSide Ransomware Hit Colonial Pipeline—and Created an Unholy Mess
As the White House gets involved in the response, the group behind the malware is scrambling. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme
The company’s ex-vice president of IT faces 20 years in prison for creating a pay-to-play environment with technology vendors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy Just Kicked In. Here’s What You Need to Know
Instead of a hard cutoff, the messaging app will gradually degrade and eventually cease to function if you don’t accept the changes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What's Google FLoC? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
There's a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
I’m Not a Robot! So Why Won’t Captchas Believe Me?
If clicking crosswalks makes your blood boil, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are some tips that make solving those challenges way less frustrating. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google's Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies Is Crumbling
Regulators in the EU and competitors have raised concerns about the company's proposals to rewrite the rules of online advertising. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Ransomware Faces Long Odds
A task force counting Amazon, Cisco, and the FBI among its members has proposed a framework to solve one of cybersecurity's biggest problems. Good luck. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You—So Do It
Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AirDrop Is Leaking Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Apple has known about the flaw since 2019 but has yet to acknowledge or fix it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hackers Used ‘Mind-Blowing’ Bug to Sneak Past macOS Safeguards
The vulnerability was patched Monday, but hackers had already used it to spread malware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster
Recent spying attacks against Pulse Secure VPN are just the latest example of a long-simmering cybersecurity meltdown. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion
This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Clubhouse Bug Let People Lurk in Rooms Invisibly
 The vulnerabilities opened the door to “ghosts” hiding in and disrupting rooms, where moderators would be unable to mute them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Palestinian Hackers Tricked Victims Into Installing iOS Spyware
The groups used social engineering techniques on Facebook to direct targets to a wide range of malware, including custom tools. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
A recently discovered vulnerability discloses user email addresses even when they’re set to private. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Biggest Security Threats to the US Are the Hardest to Define
In a Senate briefing, the heads of the major intelligence agencies warned the public about dangers that offer no easy solutions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won't Be the Last
The Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Sanctions on Russia Rewrite Cyberespionage's Rules
The US has sent a loud message to Moscow—though what it's saying isn’t exactly clear. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree
The agency's approach to protecting vulnerable victims of the recent Hafnium attack manages to be at once controversial and refreshingly restrained. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facebook Had Years to Fix the Flaw That Leaked 500M Users' Data
Software makers can't catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Far-Right Extremist Allegedly Plotted to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers
The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet
In an attempt to silence Twitter, the Kremlin appears to have developed novel techniques to restrict online content. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform
The new policy holds streamers to account for what happens on other services and in real life. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hackers Are Exploiting Discord and Slack Links to Serve Up Malware
Beware of links from platforms that got big during quarantine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
The government's latest attack is aimed at discouraging the company from following through with its planned rollout across platforms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence committee about the progress of recent years and the work that remains. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Threat to the Water Supply Is Real—and Only Getting Worse
An ex-employee allegedly tampered with a Kansas water system. It was too easy, and it's happening too often. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Keep Nearby Strangers from Sending You Files
Sharing is caring—except when it's an unwelcome photo from a rando on the subway. Here's how to lock down your phone and computer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs
The company’s investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebook’s own platforms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats
Cloudflare says it’s possible to build a version of the notoriously slow and buggy tool without compromising on speed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack
DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks an SEC First
“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
With Spectre Still Lurking, Google Looks to Protect the Web
To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facebook's ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Beyond the Social Network's Walls
The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses, which could in turn make the whole internet safer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not by Hackers
A new ODNI report shows how extensive Russian and Iranian influence operations were, but it doesn’t mention a single hack-and-leak incident. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia—and Other Countries Will Take Note
Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The UK Is Secretly Testing a Controversial Web Snooping Tool
The country passed its Investigatory Powers Act in 2016. Now, it's building what could be the most powerful data collection system used by any democratic nation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices