Security, Spoken
2,086 episodes — Page 6 of 42
New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
Cybercriminals are touting large language models that could help them with phishing or creating malware. But the AI chatbots could just be their own kind of scam.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS
Here’s one simple way to reduce your security risk while logging in. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
Flaws in the Points.com platform, which is used to manage dozens of major travel rewards programs, exposed user data—and could have let an attacker snag some extra perks. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Social apps prioritize content moderation tips from governments and online watchdogs. A US court ruling and a new EU law could restrict the practice, but they still leave loopholes. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New Attack Impacts Major AI Chatbots—and No One Knows How to Stop It
Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It's Hot Zero-Day Summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft Security Fixes
Plus: Mozilla fixes two high-severity bugs in Firefox, Citrix fixes a flaw that was used to attack a US-based critical infrastructure organization, and Oracle patches over 500 vulnerabilities. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'
The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw—a Backdoor
A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws
German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they’re years behind normal cybersecurity standards. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters
A landmark $13 million settlement with the City of New York is the latest in a string of legal wins for protesters who were helped by a video-analysis tool that smashes the “bad apple” myth. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data
A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans' data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Silk Road’s Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison
Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, will spend much of the rest of his life in prison for his key role in building the world’s first dark web drug market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
Ransomware attacks tumbled in 2022, offering hope that the tide was turning against the criminal gangs behind them. Then things got a whole lot worse. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Use Discord’s ‘Family Center’ Safety Settings for Your Kids
The popular messaging platform launched new parental controls for keeping tabs on teens. Here’s what the tools do (and don’t) include. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Cities across the US have established RTCCs that police say protect the rights of innocent people, but critics warn of creeping surveillance. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Don't Join Threads—Make Threads Join You
Meta’s Twitter alternative promises that it will work with decentralized platforms, giving you greater control of your data. You can hold the company to that—if you don't sign up. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a New Chance to Stop It
The National Defense Authorization Act now includes draft language forbidding government entities from buying Americans' search histories, location data, and more. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
With a poor track record on tech regulation, do lawmakers stand a chance? Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
Plus: Microsoft fixes 78 vulnerabilities, VMWare plugs a flaw already used in attacks, and more critical updates from June. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Pornhub Is Being Accused of Illegal Data Collection
Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
Scammers use a booking technicality, traveler confusion, and promises of dirt-cheap tickets to offer hot deals that are anything but. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
Make sure your chats are kept as private as you want them to be. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
The gray market for abortifacient sales to the US is evolving alongside a shifting legal landscape. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
Newly released documents highlight the bureau's continued secrecy around cell-site simulators—spying tech that everyone already assumes exists. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How Your New Car Tracks You
Vehicles from Toyota, Honda, Ford, and more can collect huge volumes of data. Here’s what the companies can access. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How a Shady Chinese Firm’s Encryption Chips Got Inside the US Navy, NATO, and NASA
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. Yet US agencies still use one of its subsidiary’s chips, raising fears of a backdoor. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
Personal information, including ID documents and phone numbers, have been released on Telegram. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine
Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn't exist. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Bold Plan to Create Cyber 311 Hotlines
UT-Austin will join a growing movement to launch cybersecurity clinics for cities and small businesses that often fall through the cracks. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Messy US Influence That's Helping Iranians Stay Online
Newly announced sanctions against Iran-based Avaran Cloud underscore the complexity of crafting Washington’s internet freedom efforts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings
Data from Cloudflare's free digital defense service, Project Galileo, illuminates new links between online and offline attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
On the same day, Russia’s FSB intelligence service launched wild claims of NSA and Apple hacking thousands of Russians. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye
The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
And it's happening in plain sight. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
There’s Finally a Way to Secure a Crucial Piece of the Cloud
“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they've been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Mysterious Group Has Ties to 15 Years of Ukraine-Russia Hacks
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google May Delete Your Old Accounts. Here’s How to Stop It
Your inactive profiles, like Gmail or Docs, could turn into digital dust later this year. A few clicks can save them. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating the App Store and Google Play
An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New Lawsuit Puts the Online White Supremacy Pipeline on Trial
The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices