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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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Trolling the trolls. Triton/Trisis attributed to Russia. Asset management in ICS. Threat intelligence drives threat evolution. Shadow web-apps. Apple likes GDPR, hates the Data-Industrial Complex.

Episode Date: October 24, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that US Cyber Command has been reaching out to tell the trolls Uncle Sam cares. Industrial control system security suffers...

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Influence operations in Brazil and the US. Vulnerabilities disclosed in commonly used software. Healthcare.gov breach. Industrial control system cybersecurity.

Episode Date: October 23, 2018

In today's podcast we wonder WhatsApp with Brazil's runoff election? Hacktivism hits Davos-in-the-Desert. Kraken Cryptor ransomware gets an upgrade. R...

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Making the business case for privacy. [Special Edition]

Episode Date: October 23, 2018

In this cyberwire special edition, my guest is Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy. We discuss what exactly a chief privacy officer does at...

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Russian indicted in US midterm election influence conspiracy case. Styles and goals of info ops. Cyber deterrence. DPRK petty crime. Alt-coin scammer. Spy chip story remains unconfirmed, unretracted.

Episode Date: October 22, 2018

In today's podcast we hear that the US has indicted a Russian accountant for conspiring to influence US midterm elections. Different nations have diff...

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Stormy weather in the Office 365 cloud. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 20, 2018

Security firm Lastline recently took a close look at threats to the Office 365 cloud environment, taking advantage of the insights they gain protectin...

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Chinese supply-chain hack story gets vanishingly thin. Twitter downs pro-Saudi bots. SEO poisoning. OceanLotus evolves. Ransomware notes.

Episode Date: October 19, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that no one but Bloomberg seems to retain much faith in Bloomberg's story about Chinese supply-chain seeding attacks. Twit...

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Looks like Comment Crew, but probably isn't. Facebook breached by spammers. Twitter's big troll trove. Router issues. Who dunnit to YouTube?

Episode Date: October 18, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that a campaign reuses some of the old Comment Crew code, but McAfee researchers think it's not the same old Crew. Faceboo...

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Meddling with the midterms. [Special Editions]

Episode Date: October 17, 2018

Kim Zetter is longtime cybersecurity and national security reporter for the New York Times, and author of the book Countdown to Zero Day. She joins us...

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Two ways of hacking the vote. BlackEnergy is active in Poland and Ukraine. ISIS and info ops. Hurricane-stressed utility further stressed by ransomware. Silicon Valley governance.

Episode Date: October 17, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear about election security, and two ways of hacking the vote. DHS points out that the states are getting better about sharing...

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Facebook in Myanmar. Supply chain seeding attack update. Election hacking. NCSC reports. EU prepares sanctions (Russia feels ill-used).

Episode Date: October 16, 2018

In today's podcast we hear about social networking for genocide in Myanmar: Facebook takes down the Army's inauthentic and inflammatory pages. The sup...

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Facebook breach details. Privacy issues and an image problem for advocates. Supply-chain-attack skepticism. Info ops, bikers, and deniable paramilitaries.

Episode Date: October 15, 2018

In today's podcast, we heat that Facebook has found that fewer users than feared were affected by its breach, but that in this case "fewer" still mean...

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Driving GPS manipulation. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 13, 2018

Researchers at Virginia Tech investigate possible ways to manipulate GPS signals and send drivers to specific locations without their knowledge. Gan...

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Busy Bears, again. Mixing IT and OT is a risky business. New Android Trojan. Supply chain seeding attack updates. Facebook purges more "inauthentic" accounts. Data privacy. Cyber sanctions.

Episode Date: October 12, 2018

In today's podcast we hear that Ukraine says it's under cyberattack, again. ESET connects Telebots and BlackEnergy. Port hacks suggest risks of mixing...

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Seeding-attack skepticism. MSS officer arrested, will face industrial espionage charges in the US. Russia says again that it didn't hack the OPCW.

Episode Date: October 11, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that the report of Chinese supply chain seeding attacks comes in for more skepticism: NSA never heard of it, and Congress...

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Updates on supply-chain seeding reports. DDoS in Ukraine. GAO reports on US weapon system cyber vulnerabilities. Bugs exploited by Mirai persist. Patch note and toe dialing.

Episode Date: October 10, 2018

In today's podcast we hear that there's no consensus, yet, on Bloomberg's report of Chinese seeding attacks on the IT hardware supply chain. Ukrainian...

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Update on supply chain seeding reports. GRU comes in for more criticism. UK prepares cyber retaliatory capability. Power grid resilience. Panda Banker. Google's good and bad news.

Episode Date: October 9, 2018

In today's podcast we hear that Bloomberg's report of a Chinese seeding attack on the IT hardware supply chain comes in for skepticism, but Bloomberg...

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Cryptojacking criminal capers continue. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 6, 2018

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have been tracking the rise of cryptocurrency mining operations run by criminal groups around the world. Ry...

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Reports of Chinese seeding attacks on the supply chain. Five Eyes and other allies push back at Russia's GRU. NPPD to become Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Episode Date: October 5, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear more on the possibility that China's Peoples Liberation Army engaged in seeding the supply chain with malicious chips. Com...

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Bloomberg reports a seeding attack on the supply chain by Chinese intelligence services. GRU is named, shamed, indicted, and expelled.

Episode Date: October 4, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that Bloomberg reports that a Chinese hardware hack has infested sensitive US supply chains. Dutch authorities expel GRU o...

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Facebook breach updates. Bogus Zoho Office Suite. Brazil's big botnet. Vulnerable router firmware. Patch news. A DGSI officer arrested for dark web collusion with the mob. Bad Fortnite cheats.

Episode Date: October 3, 2018

In today's podcast, we hear that Facebook continues to investigate its breach, and says it's not found any evidence of apps compromised through Facebo...

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