Security, Spoken
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From What's New: A Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Farm Emissions Might Make Things Worse
We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.Agriculture is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the US is getting serious about reform. But some scientists say current efforts are misguided. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
From Business, Spoken: How AI Could Transform Email
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Business, Spoken.Artificial intelligence may streamline a form of business communication that’s already super fake. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
From Science, Spoken: High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It.
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now
Police are using subtle psychological operations against ransomware gangs to sow distrust in their ranks—and trick them into emerging from the shadows. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
He Trained Crypto Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark Web Drug Market
The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site's users—and then refashioning himself as a legit crypto crime expert. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech
Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds. But researchers found Teslas equipped with it are as vulnerable as ever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Eventbrite Promoted Illegal Opioid Sales to People Searching for Addiction Recovery Help
A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone—some of which the company’s algorithm recommended alongside addiction recovery events. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Two judges in London have ruled WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US on freedom of speech grounds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
A seemingly coordinated campaign playing out across X, Telegram, and state-run media blames Ukraine for the attempted assassination of Robert Fico—something for which there is no evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Android 15 Theft Detection Lock Knows When Your Phone Is Stolen
Google is introducing new AI-powered safety tools in Android 15 that can lock down your phone if thieves nab it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers
A coalition of digital rights groups is demanding the US declassify records that would clarify just how expansive a major surveillance program really is. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Internal Emails Show How a Controversial Gun-Detection System Found Its Way to NYC
NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations—despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. Emails obtained by WIRED show how the company still found an in. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified
Law enforcement officials from the US, UK, and Australia say they’ve identified and sanctioned the person behind LockBitSupp, the administrator at the heart of LockBit’s $120 million hacking rampage. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know
The iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there are a few steps you can take to protect yourself. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM, have released a new AI detection model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of Bitcoin money laundering. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload
Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
‘ArcaneDoor’ Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say
Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak
The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers
Over the weekend, president Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem
One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Big Tech Squares Off Against US Spies
One of Silicon Valley's most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration-backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Change Healthcare Faces Another Ransomware Threat—and It Looks Credible
Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government's behalf, including on fellow Americans.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans' information.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers
Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Protect Yourself (and Your Loved Ones) From AI Scam Calls
AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Ghost Ship’s Doomed Journey Through the Gate of Tears
Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask
As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled
To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms are checked for bias, will “put the public interest first.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
‘Malicious Activity’ Hits the University of Cambridge's Medical School
Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not yet revealed the nature of the “malicious activity.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Julian Assange Won’t Be Extradited to the US Yet
A high court in London says the WikiLeaks founder won’t be extradited “immediately” and the US must provide more “assurances” about any extradition.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Global Spying Rampage
US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple's iMessage Encryption Puts Its Security Practices in the DOJ's Crosshairs
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices