Wired Security Spoken Edition

One of Silicon Valley's most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration-backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government's behalf, including on fellow Americans.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans' information.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms are checked for bias, will “put the public interest first.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not yet revealed the nature of the “malicious activity.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A high court in London says the WikiLeaks founder won’t be extradited “immediately” and the US must provide more “assurances” about any extradition.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices