Security, Spoken

The attackers exploited a known vulnerability and installed credit card skimmers on more than 500 websites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Useful advice for anyone worried that one of Apple’s trackers is following them without consent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Word and Excel files you download from the internet just got a whole lot safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Buying and selling NFTs or transferring digital currency is going to require a little leap of faith. Here’s how to get started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. It didn't matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Russia continues to amass troops at the border, resistance groups have seen a surge in crypto donations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Ottawa, a protest against vaccine mandates has become an international sensation. American far-right personalities are behind its online rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When UpdateAgent emerged in late 2020, it utilized basic infiltration techniques. Its developers have since expanded it in dangerous ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Privacy policies didn't tell the whole story about third-party tools gathering personal information from the sites of medical and genetic-testing companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ransomware and online attacks can lead to deadly real-world consequences. Governments need to raise their game in response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China’s Winter Games are overshadowed by human rights problems and overreaching state surveillance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple awarded a $100,500 bug bounty to the researcher who discovered the latest major vulnerability in its browser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The politically motivated attack represents a new frontier for hacktivists—and won’t be the last of its kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know those “emergency” email addresses you can use to get into your email and other accounts in case you're locked out? Make sure they're up-to-date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A data wiper posing as ransomware bears a discomfiting resemblance to the earlier wave of Russian cyberattacks that ended with NotPetya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The flaws are now fixed, but speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over a dozen alleged members of the notorious ransomware group have been arrested, but the Kremlin's critics are wary of the underlying motivation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The newest security measure is still in beta. But if you want to make use of it, here's what you need to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices