Security, Spoken

Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation that would ban warrantless access to sensitive data as the White House fights against it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New research finds that Israel’s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the same rate as other buildings, potentially in violation of international law. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A UK High Court will settle a long-running debate over whether Craig Wright really is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin. Monday’s opening arguments laid the groundwork for both sides. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US spy agencies purchased Americans' phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia's and Ukraine's militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is spending millions on lobbying in Washington while taking advantage of the Israel-Hamas war to paint itself as essential for global security. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from users. But it’s not shutting out the cops entirely. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple’s iOS 17.3 introduces Stolen Device Protection to iPhones, which could stop phone thieves from taking over your accounts. Here’s how to enable it right now. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FTC forced a data broker to stop selling “sensitive location data.” But most companies can avoid such scrutiny by doing the bare minimum, exposing the lack of protections Americans truly have. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X's two-factor authentication settings. Here's how to fix yours. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A midair blowout on a Boeing 737 Max 9 showed seatbelts matter, but infants under two still aren’t required to have their own seats. Experts say changing the rules would make flying safer for children—but, counterintuitively, would result in more deaths. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US approval of spot bitcoin ETFs, a new way to track the price of bitcoin, could trigger a gold rush for investors. But an exclusive cast of middlemen will earn big in the background, too. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and “privacy coins” like Monero to launder their profits and evade law enforcement. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices