CYBER

The DHS Is Reading Travelers' Posts at the Border

Customs and Border Protection is scanning people’s social media, the feds have arrested some swatters, and the FTC has ordered Ring to cough up a fine. This week on Cyber, Motherboard’s premier cyber crime reporter Joseph Cox is back to walk us through the latest in privacy violations done by Washington and the private sector. We’ll also take another look at the criminal world of SIM swappers and auto-swatters. Stories discussed in this episode: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bge3/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babel-x-babel-street-social-media-citizens-refugees" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zbma/the-comm-acg-group-linked-to-nationwide-swatting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'The Comm': The Group Linked to a Nationwide Swatting Rampage</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9375/ftc-orders-ring-to-pay-5-million-in-refunds-failing-stop-hackers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FTC Orders Ring to Pay $5.8 Million in Refunds For Surveilling Customers, Failing to Stop Hackers</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak33w8/russian-fsb-accuses-us-of-hacking-thousands-of-iphones-in-russia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russian FSB Accuses U.S. of Hacking Thousands of iPhones in Russia</a> We’re recording CYBER live on<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/vice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitch</a>. Watch live during the week.<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/vice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Follow us</a> there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.  Subscribe to<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.