Security, Spoken

Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

And it's happening in plain sight. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they've been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your inactive profiles, like Gmail or Docs, could turn into digital dust later this year. A few clicks can save them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three states are suing to block security rules for water facilities. If they win, it may open the floodgates for challenges to other cyber rules. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The social network's new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The unidentified attackers have targeted people on both sides of Russia’s war against Ukraine, carrying out espionage operations that suggest state funding. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Documents obtained by WIRED show SafeGraph, which sold location data related to Planned Parenthood visits, is now pursuing contracts with the US Air Force. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network. But did not realize the significance of what they had found for six months. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is adding new tools as bad actors use ChatGPT-themed lures and mask their infrastructure in an attempt to trick victims and elude defenders. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Operation SpecTor likely drew on leads from multiple dark web market busts, including the secret takedown of Monopoly Market in 2021. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The legislation would insert the government into online platforms' age-verification efforts—a move that makes some US lawmakers queasy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The cybercriminals behind the Gootloader malware have found clever ways to avoid detection. But researchers are using those same mechanisms to stop them. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To protect its Confidential Computing cloud infrastructure, Google leans on its relationships with chipmakers to gain unusual insight into hardware. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices