Security, Spoken
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A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
The suit claims the company lacks adequate moderation to prevent widespread hate speech that has led to violence and death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Popular HR and Payroll Company Sequoia Discloses a Data Breach
The company, which works with hundreds of startups, said it detected unauthorized access to personal data, including Social Security numbers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What You Should Know Before Using the Lensa AI App
Are you thinking about uploading some selfies and buying a pack of ‘Magic Avatars’? Consider these expert tips first. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Year Later, That Brutal Log4j Vulnerability Is Still Lurking
Despite mitigation, one of the worst bugs in internet history is still prevalent—and being exploited. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
From QAnon influencers to @catturd, the very online right sees exactly what they want to see in the CEO’s orchestrated disclosure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups
The company will also soon support the use of physical authentication keys with Apple ID, and it's adding contact verification for iMessage in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Invasive Reach of ‘Digital-by-Default’ Immigration
The UK's use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants' lives. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Android Phone Makers' Encryption Keys Stolen and Used in Malware
Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app's authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
The “Heliconia” hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think
Popular redaction tools don’t always work as promised, and new attacks can reveal hidden information, researchers say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats
Lawmakers are growing concerned about a flood of data-hungry cars from China taking over American streets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Has a Bomb-Sniffing Dog Shortage
Finding high-quality detection canines is hard enough—and the pandemic only dug a deeper hole. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
Elon Musk laid off half the staff, and mass resignations seem likely. If nobody’s there to protect the fort, what’s the worst that could happen? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
New research found pervasive use of tracking tech on substance-abuse-focused health care websites, potentially endangering users in a post-Roe world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
Problems with the important security feature may be some of the first signs that Elon Musk's social network is fraying at the edges. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
Government officials are urging citizens to adopt the official digital currency in a bid to gain more control over the economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It
One man’s battle to reclaim his face shows regulators across the bloc are failing to reprimand the US face search engine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Russia's Sway Over Criminal Ransomware Gangs Is Coming Into Focus
Questions about the Kremlin's relationships with these groups remain. But researchers are finally getting some answers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Russia’s New Cyberwarfare in Ukraine Is Fast, Dirty, and Relentless
Security researchers see updated tactics and tools—and a tempo change—in the cyberattacks Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency is inflicting on Ukraine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is a Scammer’s Paradise
Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Inside the ‘Election Integrity’ App Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Prepare for the End of Card Payments
Cash is safe—for now. Contactless payment methods, like Apple Pay or Google Wallet, are more of a threat to the existence of physical cards. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker's $3.36 Bitcoin Stash
A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
Stadiums around the world, including at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, are subjecting spectators to invasive biometric surveillance tech. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The 'Viral' Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech
Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its rise can't come soon enough. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When Your Neighbor Turns You In
Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it’s already happening in the US. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If Musk Starts Firing Twitter's Security Team, Run
What's next for the social network is anyone's guess—but here's what to watch as you wade through the privacy and security morass. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Election That Saved the Internet From Russia and China
Open-internet advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a recent election for the International Telecommunications Union's top leadership. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Bug in Apple MacOS Ventura Breaks Third-Party Security Tools
Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly
The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer
For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ukraine Enters a Dark New Era of Drone Warfare
A series of deadly attacks using Iranian “suicide drones” shows Russia is shifting gears in the conflict. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Your Microsoft Exchange Server Is a Security Liability
Endless vulnerabilities. Widespread hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It's time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Ransomware Gang Thrives in a Crucial Blind Spot
Vice Society has a superpower that’s allowed it to quietly carry out attacks on schools and hospitals around the world: mediocrity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How the World Will Know If Russia Is Preparing to Launch a Nuke
While tensions over a possible nuclear attack on Ukraine remain high, experts say surveillance will likely catch Russia if it plans to do the unthinkable. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android
Google wants to make your digital life—in its ecosystem, anyway—passwordless and more secure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles
Custodians of the crowdsourced encyclopedia are charged with protecting it from state-sponsored manipulators. A new study reveals how. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google’s Pixel 7 Packs a Beefed-Up Security Chip
The company says it hardened the security of its new flagship phones—and plans to release a built-in Android VPN. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta Says It Has Busted More Than 400 Login-Stealing Apps This Year
The company plans to alert 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised by malicious software. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Biden’s Privacy Order Slaps a Band-Aid on the EU-US Data Crisis
A new executive order tries to reassure Europeans that their data is safe on US soil, despite government surveillance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Uber Data Breach Conviction Shows Security Execs What Not to Do
Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan’s conviction is a rare criminal consequence for an executive’s handling of a hack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The High Cost of Living Your Life Online
Constantly posting content on social media can erode your privacy—and sense of self. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Challenge of Cracking Iran’s Internet Blockade
People around the world are rallying to subvert Iran's internet shutdown, but actually pulling it off is proving difficult and risky. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Cloudflare Takes a Stab at a Captcha That Doesn’t Suck
The internet infrastructure company has an alternative tool to check whether you’re human—and it doesn’t force you to pick out buses in tiny boxes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying
For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Race to Find the Nord Stream Saboteurs
Damage to the pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany is being treated as deliberate. Finding out what happened may not be straightforward. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Advocate for Data Privacy and Users' Rights
Want to speak up against Big Tech, unjust data collection, and surveillance? Here's how to be an activist in your community and beyond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices