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The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

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Huawei accused of abetting domestic surveillance in Africa. Cyber gangs adapt and evolve. Prosecutors indicate they’ll add charges to “erratic.” Bluetana detects card skimmers.

Episode Date: August 15, 2019

Huawei accused of aiding government surveillance programs in Zambia and Uganda. Cyber gangs are adapting to law enforcement, and they’ve turned to “bi...

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Hacking the Czech Foreign Ministry. Microsoft patches new wormable bugs. More controversial human review of AI. Insecure links, exposed databases, and a California vanity plate.

Episode Date: August 14, 2019

The Czech Senate wants action on what it describes as a foreign state’s cyberattack on the country’s Foreign Ministry. Microsoft warns against the wor...

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UN Security Council looks at North Korean cybercrime. Notes on PsiXBot and BITTER APT. The state of spearphishing. Election security. A final look back at Black Hat and Def Con.

Episode Date: August 13, 2019

More on the UN Security Council’s report on North Korean state-sponsored cyber crime. PsiXBot evolves. BITTER APT probes Chinese government networks i...

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A look back at Black Hat and Def Con. Sometimes failures that look like accidents are accidents. Russia wants better content suppression from Google. Notes on intelligence services.

Episode Date: August 12, 2019

A look back at Black Hat and Def Con, with notes on technology and public policy. Participants urge people to contribute their expertise to policymake...

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Unpacking the Malvertising Ecosystem. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 10, 2019

Researchers at Cisco's Talos Unit recently published research exploring the tactics, technics and procedures of the global malvertising ecosystem. Cra...

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Voting machine security. Airliner firmware. Attribution and deterrence in cyberwar. Monitoring social media. Broadcom buys Symantec’s enterprise security business. Policing, privacy, and an IoT OS.

Episode Date: August 9, 2019

Are voting machines too connected for comfort? Airliner firmware security is in dispute. Attribution, deterrence, and the problem of an adversary who...

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Hacking in the Gulf region. Vulnerability research into airliner avionics. Phishing and ransomware move to the cloud. EU data responsibilities. US bans five Chinese companies.

Episode Date: August 8, 2019

Tensions in the Gulf are accompanied by an increase in cyber optempo. A warning about vulnerable airliner avionics. Phishing is moving to the cloud, a...

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Another speculative execution flaw. LokiBot evolves. APT41 moonlights. Scammers exploit tragedies. Black Hat notes.

Episode Date: August 7, 2019

A new speculative execution processor flaw is addressed with software mitigations. LokiBot gets more persistent, and it adopts steganography for bette...

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Fancy Bear is snuffling around corporate IoT devices. Machete takes its cuts at Venezuelan military targets. What Mr. Kim is buying. MegaCortex goes for automation. Vigilantes, misconfigurations, etc.

Episode Date: August 6, 2019

Fancy Bear is back, and maybe in your office printer. El Machete, a cyber espionage group active at least since 2014, is currently working against the...

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Ransomware attacks in Mexico and Germany. Wipers in criminal service. Supervising Siri and Alexa. Mass shooters find inspiration and online expression.

Episode Date: August 5, 2019

A Mexican publisher is hit with an extortion demand. Ransomware increasingly carries a destructive, wiper component: Germany is dealing with a virulen...

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Package manager repository malware detection. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 3, 2019

Researchers at Reversing Labs have been tracking malware hidden in software package manager repositories, and it's use as a supply chain attack vector...

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Spearphishing utility companies. Bellingcat as gadfly, and target. Facebook takes down more coordinated inauthenticity. Card skimming. Tech regulation. Random acts of cruelty.

Episode Date: August 2, 2019

LookBack malware used in spearphishing campaigns against US utilities. Phishing Bellingcat. Facebook takes down two campaigns of coordinated inauthent...

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Capital One investigation update. Don’t give up on the cloud. Exposed databases and backdoors. Cybercrime as high-stakes poker. Phishing the financials. Bots on holiday.

Episode Date: August 1, 2019

Investigators pursue the possibility that the alleged Capital One hacker might have hit other companies’ data. An exposed ElastiSearch database, now s...

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Capital One breach update. CISA warns of avionics CAN bus vulnerabilities. More attacks on local Louisiana governments. Change at the SEC. Cyber summer school for NATO, EU diplomats.

Episode Date: July 31, 2019

Capital One takes a market hit from its data loss. Observers see the incident as a reminder that cloud users need to pay attention to their configurat...

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Capital One sustains a major data breach. Phishing in LinkedIn. VxWorks patches and mitigations. Brute-forcing NAS credentials. LAPD doxed?

Episode Date: July 30, 2019

Capital One sustains a major data breach affecting 106 million customers, and a suspect is in custody, thanks largely to her incautious online boastin...

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Bears sniff at Bellingcat. Magecart in spoofed domains. MyDoom is still active. Shipboard malware was Emotet. Hutchins sentenced. Digital assistants have big ears. Taxes owed on alt-coin gains.

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

Bellingcat gets a look-in from the Bears. Magecart card-skimming code found in bogus domains. The MyDoom worm remains active in the wild, fifteen year...

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Cult of the Dead Cow author Joseph Menn extended interview. [Special Editions]

Episode Date: July 28, 2019

Our guest today is Joseph Menn. He’s a longtime investigative reporter on technology issues, currently working for Reuters in San Francisco. He’s the...

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Day to day app fraud in the Google Play store. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 27, 2019

Researchers at bot mitigation firm White Ops have been tracking fraudulent apps in the Google Play store. These apps often imitate legitimate apps, ev...

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Winnti and other Chinese espionage activity. Volume I of the US Senate report on election meddling is out. Ransomware from Sabine, Louisiana, to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Episode Date: July 26, 2019

Winnti and other Chinese threats have been active against German and French targets. The US Senate Intelligence Committee has issued the first volume...

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News about Russian and Chinese government threat actors. Powerful crimeware active in Brazil. BlueKeep really needs to be patched. Messenger Kids issues. Dispatches from the cryptowars.

Episode Date: July 25, 2019

Did you know that Fancy Bear has taken to wearing a Monokle? A new Chinese cyber espionage campaign is identified. Intrusion Truth tracks APT17 to Jin...

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