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A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
27/09/2023 Duración: 08minWith 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
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Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
26/09/2023 Duración: 08minCorporations 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
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US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
21/09/2023 Duración: 04minAuthorities sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments against nine people accused of being members.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
20/09/2023 Duración: 07minSecurity researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
19/09/2023 Duración: 05minCyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
18/09/2023 Duración: 11minSenators met with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
15/09/2023 Duración: 07minCivil 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
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The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
14/09/2023 Duración: 08minAnd the first case on the docket may well be Russia's cyberattacks against civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
13/09/2023 Duración: 07minSigns 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
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The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
11/09/2023 Duración: 06minAfter leaving many questions unanswered, a new post mortem from Microsoft explains the series of slip-ups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
08/09/2023 Duración: 09minSome foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
07/09/2023 Duración: 06minChatbots 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
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The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
06/09/2023 Duración: 09minPosts 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
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How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
05/09/2023 Duración: 05minIf you want the highest possible level of protection, this is it.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
04/09/2023 Duración: 05minChild safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
01/09/2023 Duración: 09minTrimming profits, delaying launches, begging friends. Companies are going to extreme lengths to make do with shortages of GPUs, the chips at the heart of generative AI programs.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
31/08/2023 Duración: 09minA ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
30/08/2023 Duración: 08minThe competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System
29/08/2023 Duración: 06minThe 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
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The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane
28/08/2023 Duración: 09minRussia 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