Security, Spoken

Senators met with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

And the first case on the docket may well be Russia's cyberattacks against civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After leaving many questions unanswered, a new post mortem from Microsoft explains the series of slip-ups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm," researchers claim. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you want the highest possible level of protection, this is it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trimming profits, delaying launches, begging friends. Companies are going to extreme lengths to make do with shortages of GPUs, the chips at the heart of generative AI programs. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unlike web browsers, mobile apps increasingly make it difficult or impossible to see what companies are really doing with your data. The answer? An inspectability API. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hackers, who mostly targeted victims in Hong Kong, also hijacked Microsoft’s trust model to make their malware harder to detect. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pixel Binary Transparency is the latest security benefit for Pixel owners. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An innovation agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services will fund research into better defenses for the US health care system’s digital infrastructure. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But at Defcon, a researcher says it has troubling flaws. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices