Wired Security Spoken Edition

A government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Three states are suing to block security rules for water facilities. If they win, it may open the floodgates for challenges to other cyber rules. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The social network's new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The unidentified attackers have targeted people on both sides of Russia’s war against Ukraine, carrying out espionage operations that suggest state funding. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Documents obtained by WIRED show SafeGraph, which sold location data related to Planned Parenthood visits, is now pursuing contracts with the US Air Force. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network. But did not realize the significance of what they had found for six months. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company is adding new tools as bad actors use ChatGPT-themed lures and mask their infrastructure in an attempt to trick victims and elude defenders. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Operation SpecTor likely drew on leads from multiple dark web market busts, including the secret takedown of Monopoly Market in 2021. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The legislation would insert the government into online platforms' age-verification efforts—a move that makes some US lawmakers queasy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The cybercriminals behind the Gootloader malware have found clever ways to avoid detection. But researchers are using those same mechanisms to stop them. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To protect its Confidential Computing cloud infrastructure, Google leans on its relationships with chipmakers to gain unusual insight into hardware. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The mass compromise of the VoIP firm's customers is the first confirmed incident where one software supply chain attack enabled another, researchers say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Three criminal cases detail China's alleged attempts to extend its security forces' influence online—and around the globe. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Generative AI is a tool, which means it can be used by cybercriminals, too. Here’s how to protect yourself. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More than half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn’t been wiped, exposing sensitive info like login credentials and customer data. Read the story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices