Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’
On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 28, 2021•7 min
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A Far-Right Extremist Allegedly Plotted to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers
The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 27, 2021•7 min
Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet
In an attempt to silence Twitter, the Kremlin appears to have developed novel techniques to restrict online content. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 26, 2021•6 min
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform
The new policy holds streamers to account for what happens on other services and in real life. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 23, 2021•8 min
Hackers Are Exploiting Discord and Slack Links to Serve Up Malware
Beware of links from platforms that got big during quarantine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 21, 2021•7 min
Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 20, 2021•13 min
The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption
The government's latest attack is aimed at discouraging the company from following through with its planned rollout across platforms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 19, 2021•8 min
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence committee about the progress of recent years and the work that remains. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 16, 2021•11 min
The Threat to the Water Supply Is Real—and Only Getting Worse
An ex-employee allegedly tampered with a Kansas water system. It was too easy, and it's happening too often. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 15, 2021•8 min
How to Keep Nearby Strangers from Sending You Files
Sharing is caring—except when it's an unwelcome photo from a rando on the subway. Here's how to lock down your phone and computer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 12, 2021•7 min
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 09, 2021•3 min
Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs
The company’s investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebook’s own platforms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 08, 2021•6 min
‘Browser Isolation’ Takes On Entrenched Web Threats
Cloudflare says it’s possible to build a version of the notoriously slow and buggy tool without compromising on speed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 07, 2021•7 min
The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack
DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 06, 2021•5 min
A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks an SEC First
“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 05, 2021•7 min
With Spectre Still Lurking, Google Looks to Protect the Web
To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 02, 2021•7 min
Facebook's ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Beyond the Social Network's Walls
The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses, which could in turn make the whole internet safer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 01, 2021•8 min
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not by Hackers
A new ODNI report shows how extensive Russian and Iranian influence operations were, but it doesn’t mention a single hack-and-leak incident. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 31, 2021•9 min
Apple Bent the Rules for Russia—and Other Countries Will Take Note
Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 30, 2021•6 min
The UK Is Secretly Testing a Controversial Web Snooping Tool
The country passed its Investigatory Powers Act in 2016. Now, it's building what could be the most powerful data collection system used by any democratic nation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 26, 2021•11 min
Netflix's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has a Silver Lining
The streaming service is making account owners enter two-factor codes in a limited test. That's … actually not so bad. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 25, 2021•8 min
How to Export Your Passwords From LastPass
The popular security service is severely limiting its free tier starting March 16. If you’d like to move your passwords to another manager, here’s how. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 24, 2021•10 min
It’s Open Season for Microsoft Exchange Hacks
A patch for the vulnerabilities China exploited has been released. Now, criminal groups are going to reverse engineer it—if they haven’t already. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 23, 2021•9 min
Gab's CTO Introduced a Critical Vulnerability to the Site
A review of the open source code shows an account under the executive's name made a mistake that could lead to the kind of breach reported this weekend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 22, 2021•6 min
‘Retaliation’ for Russia's SolarWinds Spying Isn't the Answer
It will be hard pointing to a specific line the Kremlin crossed that the US hasn't crossed as well. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 19, 2021•11 min
Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
A single group appears to have infiltrated tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in an ongoing onslaught. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 18, 2021•8 min
The Accellion Breach Keeps Getting Worse—and More Expensive
What started as a few vulnerabilities in firewall equipment has snowballed into a global extortion spree. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 17, 2021•8 min
Privacy-First Browser Brave Is Launching a Search Engine
Unlike Google, Brave Search won’t track or profile people who use it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 15, 2021•7 min
Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud
It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 12, 2021•7 min
China and Russia's Spying Sprees Will Take Years to Unpack
The full extent of the Solarwinds hack and Hafnium's attack on Microsoft Exchange Server may never be known. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 11, 2021•8 min
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