Wired Security Spoken Edition

The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. Yet US agencies still use one of its subsidiary’s chips, raising fears of a backdoor. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Personal information, including ID documents and phone numbers, have been released on Telegram. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn't exist. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

UT-Austin will join a growing movement to launch cybersecurity clinics for cities and small businesses that often fall through the cracks. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Newly announced sanctions against Iran-based Avaran Cloud underscore the complexity of crafting Washington’s internet freedom efforts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Data from Cloudflare's free digital defense service, Project Galileo, illuminates new links between online and offline attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On the same day, Russia’s FSB intelligence service launched wild claims of NSA and Apple hacking thousands of Russians. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

And it's happening in plain sight. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they've been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Your inactive profiles, like Gmail or Docs, could turn into digital dust later this year. A few clicks can save them. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices