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Security, Spoken

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8:00

Security News This Week: You Should Delete Facebook's...

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2018/08/28

The biggest news in America this week struck like two timed missiles minutes apart on Tuesday afternoon. Though they appear at first blush unrelated to Russia’s hacking of the 2016 US election, they are likely to explode right in the heart of Robert Mueller’s investigation. First. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:41

Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All...

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2018/08/27

On Thursday, T-Mobile confirmed that some of its customer data was breached in an attack the company discovered on Monday. It's a snappy disclosure timeframe, and the carrier said that no financial data, passwords, or Social Security numbers were compromised in the breach. A relief, right? The problem is the customer data that was potentially exposed: name, billing zip code, email address, account number, account type, and phone number. That last one's a particular concern. Learn more about your ad

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6:08

An Undiscovered Facebook Bug Made Me Think I Was Hacked

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2018/08/27

My legs were sticking to the vinyl back seat of a NYC cab when I received the email on a Thursday this July. I was running late to an afternoon dentist appointment, and sending messages on Facebook Messenger. Most of the conversations were for a story I was reporting about a Facebook group for sexual assault survivors, which had been overtaken by abusers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:24

A Monitor’s Ultrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What’s on...

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2018/08/24

You probably assume that someone can only see what's on your computer screen by looking at it. But a team of researchers has found that they can glean a surprising amount of information about what a monitor displays by listening to and analyzing the unintended, ultrasonic sounds it emits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:02

Why the DNC Thought a Phishing Test Was a Real Attack

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2018/08/24

On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee was alerted by Lookout, a mobile security firm, about an apparent phishing campaign. Someone had created fake site that looked just like VoteBuilder, a DNC-managed database that contains years' worth of voter information. Were an unsuspecting DNC employee to give the fake site their username and password, a malicious actor could potentially steal sensitive data. Alarmed, the DNC notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Learn more about your ad

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7:18

Iran Emerges as Latest Threat to Facebook and Twitter

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2018/08/23

Following more than a year of unrelenting focus on Russian cyber attacks on Silicon Valley giants, Facebook and Twitter announced Tuesday night that they've now also thwarted a network of suspicious accounts that appear to originate in Iran. First, Facebook announced it had taken down 652 pages, groups, and accounts for "coordinated inauthentic behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:23

Tech Giants Are Becoming Defenders of Democracy. Now...

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2018/08/23

On Tuesday, a trifecta of tech companies announced that they had thwarted what appear to be significant cyberattacks from Russia and Iran. First, Microsoft CEO Brad Smith announced that the company had caught another round of phishing attacks on political groups in the United States, which it attributed to the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear. Then it was Facebook's turn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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45:55

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating...

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2018/08/22

It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind. The headquarters of A.P. Møller-Maersk sits beside the breezy, cobblestoned esplanade of Copenhagen’s harbor. A ship’s mast carrying the Danish flag is planted by the building’s northeastern corner, and six stories of blue-tinted windows look out over the water, facing a dock where the Danish royal family parks its yacht. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:51

How Microsoft Tackles Russian Hackers—And Why It's...

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2018/08/22

Early Tuesday, Microsoft announced that last week it seized control of six domains owned by the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear, also known as APT28. The hackers had used the sites to mount midterm election-related phishing campaigns, similar to those Fancy Bear launched during the 2016 United States election season. It's the most prominent, publicly known effort to proactively identify and thwart Russian election hacking efforts—and Microsoft's in a unique position to pull it off. Learn more about

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12:02

Inside the Research Lab Teaching Facebook About Its...

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2018/08/21

In late July, a group of high-ranking Facebook executives organized an emergency conference call with reporters across the country. That morning, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, explained, they had shut down 32 fake pages and accounts that appeared to be coordinating disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:05

Taking Away John Brennan's Clearance Threatens...

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2018/08/21

In a move that has shocked career national security officials, President Trump stripped former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance this week, and announced he was considering doing so for a host of others. The move so enraged retired Navy Admiral William McRaven—the man who oversaw the killing of Osama Bin Laden—that he wrote an op-ed telling Trump to revoke his clearance too, in solidarity with Brennan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:02

How to Protect Yourself Against a SIM Swap Attack

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2018/08/20

A spate of hacked Instagram accounts. A $220 million lawsuit against AT&T. A bustling underground crime ring. They all have roots in an old problem that has lately found new urgency: SIM card swaps, a scam in which hackers steal your mobile identity—and use it to upend your life. At its most basic level, a SIM swap is when someone convinces your carrier to switch your phone number over to a SIM card they own. They’re not doing it for prank call cover, or to rack up long-distance charges. Learn more

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13:11

A Bot Panic Hits Amazon's Mechanical Turk

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2018/08/20

For the past week, psychologists all over America have been freaking out. The cause of their agita was an observation by a psychology graduate student from the University of Minnesota named Max Hui Bai. Like many researchers, Bai uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, where individuals sign up to complete simple tasks, such as taking surveys for academics or marketers, and earn a low fee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:40

To Identify a Hacker, Treat Them Like a Burglar

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2018/08/17

Imagine someone robs your house. The savvy culprit didn't leave behind fingerprints, shoe prints, or any other discrete, identifying details. Still, police manage to link the crime to a series of burglaries that happened the next town over, because of the criminal's behavior. Each robbery occurred in the same way, and in each case, the perpetrator stole many of the same items. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:24

At DefCon, the Biggest Election Threat Is Lack of...

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2018/08/17

Now in its second year, the Voting Machine Hacking Village at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas features a new set of voting machines—all of which will actually be used in the 2018 midterm elections—for attendees to analyze and attack. But as eager attendees get to work familiarizing themselves with the devices and revealing their weaknesses, another call has emerged from the Village as well: Finding bugs is great. But you also need the money to fix them. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:13

Imposter Fortnite Android Apps Are Already Spreading...

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2018/08/16

Two weeks ago, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed that the Android version of Fortnite, largely seen as the most popular game in the world, would not be available through the Google Play Store. Instead, fans would have to install it from the web. The announcement drew heaps of attention—not least of which came from peddlers of malware. Fortnite only became broadly available on Android this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

Google Tracks You Even If Location History's Off....

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2018/08/15

If, like most people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you were wrong. According to an AP investigation published Monday, even if you disable Location History, the search giant still tracks you every time you open Google Maps, get certain automatic weather updates, or search for things in your browser. There's a way to stop it—but it takes some digging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:46

Invisible Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Burrow Deep into...

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2018/08/15

One way operating system developers try to protect a computers's secrets from probing hackers is with an appeal to the human at the keyboard. By giving the user a choice to “allow” or “deny” a program’s access to sensitive data or features, the operating system can create a checkpoint that halts malware while letting innocent applications through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:44

Fax Machines Are Still Everywhere, and Wildly Insecure

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2018/08/14

It's tempting to think of fax machines as a relic, every bit as relevant as an eight-track tape. But fields like health care and government still rely on faxes every day. Even your all-in-one printer probably has a fax component. And new research shows that vulnerabilities in that very old tech could expose entire corporate networks to attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:51

A Clever Android Hack Takes Advantage of Sloppy Storage

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2018/08/14

An Android app has two choices for where to put its data on a device: internal storage, where it’s safe and snug, isolated by the operating system’s sandbox, and external storage, where data can move between apps but isn't as protected. Most of the time, that setup works just fine. But when developers use the latter incorrectly, they could give hackers a crucial foothold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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