Security, Spoken

Online tracking can often feel downright invasive. From using VPNs to clearing browser histories, we've got your back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tech giants have teamed up to use a Bluetooth-based framework to keep track of the spread of infections without compromising location privacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus: WhatsApp updates, a ransomware scheme, and more of the week's top security news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite Donald Trump's invective, the spread of Covid-19 has made the expansion of absentee voting expansion critical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 4,000 Google Play apps let developers and advertisers collect a list of the user's other installed apps, no permission needed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They've been patched, but the Safari vulnerabilities would have given an alarming amount of access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trolls. Prying bosses. Zoom's a great video chat platform, but a few simple steps also make it a safe one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As brick and mortars close due to the novel coronavirus, thieves have increasingly targeted digital check-out. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hotel chain has suffered its second major breach in 16 months. Here's how to find out if you're affected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

South Korea is a prime suspect for exploiting the secret software vulnerabilities in an extremely sophisticated attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The little-known Postal Plan, which dates back to the Clinton era, charges mail carriers with delivering critical supplies—like vaccines—as a last resort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus: A Windows zero day, an iOS watering hole, and more of the week's top security news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US is desperate for hospital beds. The USACE can build thousands of them in a matter of days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After over a million downloads, the Tekya-infected Android offerings are finally on ice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A years-long investigation and global cooperation disrupted one of the biggest botnets ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The World Health Organization is partnering with the messaging app to help disseminate trustworthy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As more people work from home and anxiety mounts, expect cyberattacks of all sorts to take advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shadowserver has helped keep the internet safe for 15 years. Unless it can raise funds fast, it's going to disappear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new documentary makes crystal clear how little time remains to protect the 2020 election. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a rule of thumb in cybersecurity that the more sensitive your system, the less you want it to touch the internet. But as the US hunkers down to limit the spread of Covid-19, cybersecurity measures presents a difficult technical challenge to working remotely for employees at critical infrastructure, intelligence agencies, and anywhere else with high-security networks. In some cases, working fr...

You'd think that mammography machines, radiology systems, and ultrasounds would maintain the strictest possible security hygiene. But new research shows that a whopping 83 percent of medical imaging devices run on operating systems that are so old they no longer receive any software updates at all. That issue is endemic to Internet of Things devices generally, many of which aren't designed to rece...

Since Russia’s stunning influence operations during the 2016 United States presidential race, state and federal officials, researchers, and tech companies have been on high alert for a repeat performance. With the 2020 election now just seven months away, though, newly surfaced social media posts indicate that Russia’s Internet Research Agency is adapting its methods to circumvent those defenses....

Over the past few years, owners of cars with keyless start systems have learned to worry about so-called relay attacks, in which hackers exploit radio-enabled keys to steal vehicles without leaving a trace. Now it turns out that many millions of other cars that use chip-enabled mechanical keys are also vulnerable to high-tech theft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...