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Security, Spoken

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Episodes

23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews

At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 10, 20235 min

The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 04, 20238 min

US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases

A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 29, 20237 min

Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown

Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 28, 202310 min

A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship

With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 27, 20239 min

Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You

Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 26, 20239 min

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'

Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 15, 20238 min

China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again

Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 13, 20237 min

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 07, 20237 min

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm," researchers claim. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 06, 20239 min

The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System

The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 29, 20236 min

The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane

Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash. Read this story here . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 28, 20239 min
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