Wired Security Spoken Edition

A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Starting today, the search giant will make a previously opt-in auto-delete feature the norm. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Plus: Evil Corp hacking, an anti-encryption bill, and more of the week's top security news. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Computers constantly give off more information than you might realize—which hackers can use to pry out their secrets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A series of WikiLeaks disclosures that exposed a trove of the intelligence organization's secrets could have been avoided, a task force found. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The video conferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Amid worldwide protests over racism and police violence, lawmakers are once again turning to the devices as a tool for reform. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The so-called Ripple20 vulnerabilities affect equipment found in data centers, power grids, and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US Attorneys have charged six former Ebay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The programmer who became a flagrant drug lord and weapons trafficker was sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Though the Facebook-owned app doesn't give users complete control, there are ways to limit the data it collects and the types of ads you see. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that's hundreds of feet away. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The latest update to Google's operating system has a host of privacy and security improvements. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Limiting in-person polling sites makes it both harder to vote and more dangerous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another key aspect of the security and privacy label project is that the information is also encoded to be machine readable. This way, even if different countries or industries develop their own assessment tools, there's still a way to compare and process all the data. The researchers point out that data from the labels could make it easier to search for products by their privacy and security features, creating the potential for these to be mainstream product considerations rather than niche points that are difficult for consumers to research. Ecommerce websites could even offer filters for privacy and security features like they already do for things like price, weight, or screen size. In this way, consumers could make intentional choices about the products they buy, with digital safety as one of the factors.The researchers say that they've had a lot of private-sector and congressional interest in their label. But so far they've only been able to make example labels based on imaginary products or mock up lab

Plus: An iOS zero day, surveillance planes, and more of the week's top security news. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices