Wired Security Spoken Edition

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Unlike web browsers, mobile apps increasingly make it difficult or impossible to see what companies are really doing with your data. The answer? An inspectability API.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hackers, who mostly targeted victims in Hong Kong, also hijacked Microsoft’s trust model to make their malware harder to detect.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pixel Binary Transparency is the latest security benefit for Pixel owners.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An innovation agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services will fund research into better defenses for the US health care system’s digital infrastructure.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But at Defcon, a researcher says it has troubling flaws.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cybercriminals are touting large language models that could help them with phishing or creating malware. But the AI chatbots could just be their own kind of scam.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here’s one simple way to reduce your security risk while logging in. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Flaws in the Points.com platform, which is used to manage dozens of major travel rewards programs, exposed user data—and could have let an attacker snag some extra perks. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Social apps prioritize content moderation tips from governments and online watchdogs. A US court ruling and a new EU law could restrict the practice, but they still leave loopholes. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Plus: Mozilla fixes two high-severity bugs in Firefox, Citrix fixes a flaw that was used to attack a US-based critical infrastructure organization, and Oracle patches over 500 vulnerabilities. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices