Security, Spoken
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The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year
From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How Your Digital Trails Wind Up in the Police’s Hands
Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
6 Privacy-Focused Alternatives to the Apps You Use Every Day
From messaging to maps, many popular apps slurp up your data to sell you ads. There’s a better way. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple's App 'Privacy Labels' Are Here—and a Big Step Forward
It remains unclear how effective the warnings will be, but the attempt alone is a promising development. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
No One Knows How Deep Russia's Hacking Rampage Goes
A supply chain attack against IT company SolarWinds has exposed as many as 18,000 companies to Cozy Bear's attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Biden Administration Will Have Its Hands Full With Russia
After four years of Trump kowtowing to Putin, the US has its work cut out for it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Massive Fraud Operation Stole Millions From Online Bank Accounts
The crooks used emulators to mimic the phones of more than 16,000 customers whose mobile bank accounts had been compromised. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
2020 Shows the Danger of a Decapitated Cyber Regime
Trump's White House has long been AWOL on cybersecurity. That lack of oversight almost seemed to be working—until the SolarWinds hack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Understand the Russia Hack Fallout
Not all SolarWinds victims are created equal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube's Radicalization Trap
The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hold Everything: Stormtroopers Have Discovered Tactics
In The Mandalorian, Imperial troops have finally figured out how to do more than charge straight ahead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe
The fallout from the attack may not be as dire as it first sounds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms
A vulnerability in VMWare has prompted a warning that companies—and government agencies—need to patch as soon as possible. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range
A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Internet’s Most Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick
The hackers behind TrickBot have begun probing victim PCs for vulnerable firmware, which would let them persist on devices undetected. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’
As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Broken Piece of Internet Backbone Might Finally Get Fixed
Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
7 Simple Ways to Make Your Android Phone More Secure
Here's how to lock down your data and stop others from snooping on your personal information. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Go ahead, give them the keys to your heart—but anything more could make a cybersecurity mess. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not
Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
For now, the security measure will be available only to people using the beta version of the app. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ghostery’s New Search Engine Will Be Entirely Ad-Free
The tracker-blocking company will soon launch a privacy-friendly desktop browser as well. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
By the Way, Donald Trump Could Still Launch Nuclear Weapons at Any Time
The president's responsibility for the US nuclear arsenal is a Cold War anachronism. The Trump era shows why it needs reform. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Telegram Still Hasn’t Removed an AI Bot That’s Abusing Women
A deepfake bot has been generating explicit, non-consensual images on the platform. The researchers who found it say their warnings have been ignored. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Forget Imposters. Among Us Is a Playground for Hackers
The blockbuster game of deception has security holes that let cheaters run wild. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Microsoft Is Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help
The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield
An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
7 Simple Tech Tips to Keep Your Family Safe This Holiday
Does your great-aunt Winifred ask for tech support every year? Even if you aren't traveling this year, send your loved ones this advice to show you care. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The OS Big Sur Launch Might Have Slowed Down Macs Everywhere
The issues affected users that didn't upgrade their software, and other Apple services, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Use Parental Controls in Your Google, Apple, and Microsoft Account
Each of the big three offers a wealth of options to limit screen time, find lost devices, and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The FBI Says ‘Boogaloo’ Extremists Bought 3D-Printed Machine Gun Parts
A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It
It's time to do something about those photos and videos automatically saving to your camera roll. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An Engineer Gets 9 Years for Stealing $10M From Microsoft
The defendant tried—and failed—to use bitcoin to cover his tracks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud
Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feds Seize $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency goldmine for seven years before the IRS came knocking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WhatsApp Is Adding Disappearing Messages—With Some Limits
The popular encrypted messaging app now lets you automatically make chats vanish after a week, but look out for a few caveats. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
You can lock down your meetings like never before—even if you have to give up a few features to do so. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Sanctions Russians For Potentially ‘Fatal’ Triton Malware
The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
11/6 All the Ways Slack Tracks You—and How to Stop It
From changing privacy settings to putting limits on those infuriating notifications, here’s how to take control of Slack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
A secret experiment in 2007 proved that hackers could devastate power grid equipment beyond repair—with a file no bigger than a gif. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
The feature is convenient, but it can also leak sensitive data, consume bandwidth, and drain batteries. And some sites are worse than others. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Russian Hackers Playing 'Chekov's Gun' With US Infrastructure
Berserk Bear has had plenty of opportunity to cause serious trouble. So why hasn't it yet? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes
An extortionist has turned a breach of Finland's Vastaamo mental health services provider into a nightmare for victims. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here's how to tidy up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Clean Up Your Digital History
There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here's how to tidy up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facebook Promises Privacy Reform. Critics Aren't Convinced
In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
An AI tool that ‘removes’ items of clothing from photos has targeted more than 100,000 women, some of whom appear to be under the age of 18. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices