Wired Security Spoken Edition

You’ll never be able to get a clean slate—but you can significantly downsize your digital footprint. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It was a year of ransomware, surveillance, data breaches, and yes, more ransomware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” Project Zero security researchers have ever seen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hundreds of millions of devices are likely affected. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A referral program and partner sites have spurred the spread of invasive, AI-generated “nude” images. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework has security teams scrambling to put in a fix. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The move delivers a blow to the hackers behind sophisticated attacks on government agencies, think tanks, and other organizations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Russia-led campaign was a wake-up call to the industry, but there's no one solution to the threat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The attempt to block the site, which helps users mask their online activity, is the latest step in the country's efforts to control the internet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Academics claim they can sniff out the telltale signs of troll-like behavior. But is it really as simple as monitoring cute animal postings? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The platform joins Google and others in requiring stronger protections for its most vulnerable users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Using tricks to sidestep the app store’s restrictions, malware operators pillaged passwords, keystrokes, and other data. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An attacker exploited a vulnerability in MonoX Finance's smart contract to inflate the price of its digital token and then cash out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It's a technique that can hit thousands of victims—through no fault of their own. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hackers have targeted the country's trains, gas stations, and airline infrastructure, as cyber conflict with Israel continues to escalate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A hacking group is targeting a broad range of organizations, taking advantage of vulnerabilities that have been patched but not yet updated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices