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Security, Spoken

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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6:48

Security News This Week: Russia Bans Encrypted Chat...

Security, Spoken ·

2018/04/16

It was the week of Zuck. As Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg slogged through more than 10 hours of testimony in front of two different Congressional committees, privacy and security advocates were listening for anything they could glean about how Facebook manages data, implements privacy protections, and helps users make informed choices—or doesn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:01

Cloudflare's Plan to Protect the Whole Internet Comes...

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2018/04/16

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is adding an Internet of Things security service to its already long list of offerings. And though it that may seem unrelated to the free DDoS mitigation or expanded web browsing protections the company already provides, it's another incremental step that helps reveal a clearer picture of the company's overall approach to security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:37

Cambridge Analytica Could Also Access Private...

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2018/04/13

The data consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested as many as 87 million Facebook users' personal data, also could have accessed the private inbox messages of some of those affected. Facebook slipped this previously undisclosed detail into the notifications that began appearing at the top of News Feeds on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:36

The Questions Zuckerberg Should Have Answered About...

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2018/04/13

Over the last two days, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was questioned for more than 10 hours by two different Congressional committees. There was granular focus on privacy definitions and data collection, and quick footwork by Zuckerberg—backed by a phalanx of lawyers, consultants, and coaches—to craft a narrative that users “control” their data. (They don’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:41

How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You

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2018/04/12

Google has long struggled with how best to get dozens of Android smartphone manufacturers—and hundreds of carriers—to regularly push out security-focused software updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:09

Hackers Didn't Have to Be Experts to Make 'Despacito'...

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2018/04/12

Since it’s not summer 2017 anymore, you probably haven’t watched the music video for Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit “Despacito” recently. And that may be just as well. The reigning most-viewed YouTube video was vandalized and then taken off the platform for a few hours on Tuesday morning after hackers infiltrated the account that hosted it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:27

Mark Zuckerberg's Privacy Shell Game

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2018/04/11

Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress Tuesday, and for five hours, senators who appeared to have halting grasp of the company’s intricacies questioned the Facebook CEO on topics ranging from Russia to artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg for the most part gave considered answers to their questions—except when it came to the specifics of how users can control their privacy. That Zuckerberg would dodge uncomfortable questions is a disappointment, though maybe no surprise. Learn more about your ad

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8:59

A Long-Awaited IoT Crisis Is Here, and Many Devices...

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2018/04/11

You know by now that Internet of Things devices like your router are often vulnerable to attack, the industry-wide lack of investment in security leaving the door open to a host of abuses. Worse still, known weaknesses and flaws can hang around for years after their initial discovery. Even decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:10

Mozilla Diagnoses the Health of the Global Internet

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2018/04/10

The relationship between platforms and their users has never been more fraught. To see the evidence, look no further than Congress today, where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify about how his company reportedly mishandled data belonging to up to 87 million people by allowing it to get into the hands of the Trump-affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:47

Most Links to Popular Sites on Twitter Come From Bots

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2018/04/10

Bots have become a great scourge of the internet. Recently, they've flooded government comment systems with fake activism, distorted the national discourse on guns, and launched malicious attacks against the Justice Department. And a new study suggests they're behind the majority of links shared on Twitter, too. A Pew Research report released Monday finds that a whole two-thirds of links to popular sites shared on Twitter come from automated accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:17

Facebook Messenger's 'Unsend' Feature Is What Happens...

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2018/04/09

Next week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about his company's failure to prevent the data firm Cambridge Analytica from siphoning off information belonging to up to 87 million people, the majority of whom are believed to be Americans. In the lead-up to the hearings, the social network has scrambled to respond to increased scrutiny from journalists and the public over its privacy practices. Steps like overhauling its entire privacy settings menu are a clear benefit. Learn

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8:32

DC's Stingray Mess Won't Get Cleaned Up

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2018/04/09

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed for the first time that it is aware of unauthorized cell-site simulators, the surveillance tools often called stingrays or IMSI Catchers, in various parts of Washington DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:08

Cyberinsurance Tackles the Wildly Unpredictable World...

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2018/04/06

In the aftermath of the Equifax data breach last year that exposed personal information of more than 145 million people, analysis firm Property Claim Services estimated that cyberinsurance would cover roughly $125 million of Equifax’s losses from the incident. It’s uncertain whether Equifax will actually receive that much money; insurance claims can take a long time to investigate, process, and pay out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:00

A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen...

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2018/04/05

Bitcoin's blockchain provides inalterable evidence, stored on thousands of computers, of every Bitcoin transaction that's ever taken place. Many of the transactions recorded on that distributed ledger are crimes: Billions of dollars in stolen funds, contraband deals, and paid ransoms sitting in plain sight, yet obscured by unidentifiable Bitcoin addresses and, in many cases, tangles of money laundering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:29

The Billion-Dollar Hacking Group Behind a String of...

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2018/04/05

This week, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, and Lord & Taylor department stores—all owned by The Hudson’s Bay Company—acknowledged a data breach impacting more than five million credit and debit card numbers. The culprits? The same group that's spent the last few years pulling off data heists from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Trump Hotels, Jason’s Deli, Whole Foods, Chipotle: A mysterious group known as Fin7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:19

Google Bans All Cryptomining Extensions From the...

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2018/04/04

It's been about six months since cryptojacking exploded, and in that short time the approach has evolved and adapted to initiate illicit cryptocurrency mining in all different ways. Now, Google's taking a stand, announcing Monday that it would begin blocking any Chrome extension submitted to the Web Store that mines cryptocurrency. In July, it will remove existing extensions that currently contain mining functionality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:14

The Next NSA Chief Is More Used to Cyberwar Than Spy...

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2018/04/04

After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone seems set to for confirmation as the next director of the National Security Agency. That means he'll soon lead not just one agency, but two: the world's most powerful spying operation, the NSA, and the world's most powerful military hacker force, US Cyber Command. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:51

The Under Armour Hack Was Even Worse Than It Had To Be

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2018/04/03

When Under Armour announced that its nutrition app MyFitnessPal had suffered a data breach impacting the information of roughly 150 million users, things actually didn't seem so bad. Of course, it's never good when personal data ends up online, much less that of so many people, but it seemed like Under Armour had at least taken reasonable precautions. But it turns out Under Armour only sort of got things right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:12

New Encryption Service Adds Privacy Protection for...

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2018/04/03

Most of the traffic on the web is encrypted. And more websites are adopting basic encryption measures every day. That means that, in theory, eavesdroppers have a hard time seeing whom you're writing to on Gmail or what you're looking up on Wikipedia. But there's a catch. Big sites like Google and Facebook can see what links you click from their services, and use tracking cookies to follow you around the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:44

Security News This Week: Julian Assange Has Lost His...

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2018/04/02

After weeks of unrelenting chaos, the cybersecurity world took a little bit of a breather. Well, relatively, anyway. There was still one of the bigger data breaches in recent memory, compliments of UnderArmour. The sportswear company's MyFitnessPal apps suffered a breach of 150 million users' data, including names and passwords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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