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Security, Spoken

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DNC Hackers Resurface, Zuckerberg Talks Free Speech, and More News

A dangerous hacker group resurfaced, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a long-winded defense of Facebook, and Volvo is going green. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s Headlines Stealthy Russian hacker group resurfaces with clever new tricks A band of Kremlin hackers involved in the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee has resurfaced. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-c...

Oct 18, 2019•2 min

Hacker Lexicon: What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?

How do you make blockchain and other transactions truly private? With mathematical models known as zero-knowledge proofs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 18, 2019•6 min

Red Flag Laws Are Red Herrings of Gun Control

Opinion: There’s little data on the effectiveness of mental health reporting laws, and we’re being distracted from measures we know will save lives. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 11, 2019•6 min

Alleged 'Snake Oil' Crypto Firm Sues Over Boos at Black Hat

The paper being presented suggested that the two researchers had a method to quickly find large semiprime numbers and essentially break RSA-2048 and any other semiprime-based encryption. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 27, 2019•6 min

Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying

The Central Asian country’s government has repeatedly threatened to monitor its citizens’ internet activities. Google and Mozilla aren’t having it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 23, 2019•7 min

7/26 AM The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Test

Last Thursday, nearly a month after Iran shot a $220 million US drone out of the sky, the US Marine Corps took down an Iranian UAV of its own. But the significance lies less in heightened tensions in the region than it does in the weapon of choice. The strike marks the first reported successful use of the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, an energy weapon that blasts not artillery or lasers, but radio signals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Jul 26, 2019•5 min

The App Creeping on Your IG Location, Jakarta’s Insurance Crisis, and More News

The new app that creeps on your Instagram location, Jakarta is sinking, and all things Comic Con. Fast. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today's Headlines This app lets your Instagram followers track your location Wherever you go, Instagram's there too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 24, 2019•3 min

Security News This Week: Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People

Europeans had to navigate by the stars this week—well, GPS, but still—after the continent's burgeoning Galileo satellite navigation network went dark for a full seven days. The incident is a warning for everyone of how fallible the infrastructure of our modern lives really is. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 24, 2019•6 min

Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet

When news appeared in May of the security vulnerability in Windows that would come to be known as BlueKeep, security researchers almost immediately cautioned that the flaw looked like the central ingredient for a destructive worm sure to rampage through the internet. Microsoft issued a series of stark warnings to patch the flaw, which persisted in roughly a million computers. Even the NSA took the rare step of noting the bug's severity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Jul 22, 2019•9 min

7/19 Security News this Week: Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families

On Zoom conference calls across the US this week, brows furrowed as the news broke that the video conference company had a flaw in its backend that could give hackers access to people’s webcams. Worse, Zoom seemed at first unwilling to fix the problem. Thankfully, hours after the initial reports, Zoom backtracked and issued a new fix to solve underlying vulnerability. You can go back to Zooming your brilliant brainstorms in peace, everyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choice...

Jul 19, 2019•6 min
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