Security, Spoken

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

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here’s one simple way to reduce your security risk while logging in. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they’re years behind normal cybersecurity standards. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices