Security, Spoken

Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Authorities sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments against nine people accused of being members. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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