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10:47

Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel...

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2024/03/29

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:17

‘Malicious Activity’ Hits the University of...

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2024/03/28

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:43

Julian Assange Won’t Be Extradited to the US Yet

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2024/03/27

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:28

Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Global Spying...

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2024/03/26

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:30

Apple's iMessage Encryption Puts Its Security...

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2024/03/25

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:25

Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data...

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2024/03/22

Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:33

Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

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2024/03/21

Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:36

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC...

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2024/03/20

The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:04

Sinking US Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

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2024/03/19

For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that's left to do now is vote. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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13:24

The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon's New UFO Report...

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2024/03/18

The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:44

The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

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2024/03/15

Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:30

How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication...

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2024/03/14

With Meta’s updated 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:39

Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being...

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2024/03/13

Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:41

Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints

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2024/03/12

Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:38

Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware...

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2024/03/11

The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:58

Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law...

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2024/03/08

A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked—and they want the company to take “immediate action.”Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:12

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet....

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2024/03/07

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:57

The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal

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2024/03/06

The UK’s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a person’s location. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:41

Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US...

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2024/03/05

The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of Americans' data to “countries of concern,” including China and Russia. Its effectiveness may vary. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:59

Russia Attacked Ukraine's Power Grid at Least 66...

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2024/03/04

Several of the strikes occurred far from the front lines of the conflict, indicating possible war crimes. Researchers say the attacks likely had devastating impacts on civilians. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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