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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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GCHQ and MalwareTech's arrest. Chinese oilfield sustains malware infestation. US Cyber Command now a UCC. Ukraine fears another cyber campaign. Turla returns. GPS spoofing. Extremism online. ICO hack.

Episode Date: August 21, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that GCHQ may have known about the FBI's intentions to arrest Marcus Hutchins even before Hutchins departed England for Bl...

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Ransomware updates. ShadowPad backdoor may have got into the supply chain from a Chinese APT group. Apple Secure Enclave decryption key released. Profexor and Fancy Bear. Misconfigured AWS S3 exposes voter data. Countering extremism online. FBI continues

Episode Date: August 18, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that ransomware strains, old and new, are circulating in the wild. ShadowPad backdoors are tentatively attributed to Chine...

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Email brute-forcing. Aadhaar woes. Leaked Equation Group exploits remain a problem. Hijacked Chrome extensions. Pulse wave DDoS. FBI interviews "Profexor." Extremism and vigilantism. OurMine hacks HBO Twitter, Facebook.

Episode Date: August 17, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that Holyrood is defending itself with some success against email brute-forcing. India's national ID system compromised, a...

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NIST SP 800-53 updated. Attack on Scotland Parliament's email system. Consequences of Equation Group leaks. "Mr. Smith" and HBO. Attacks of note: Trickbot, OLE exploits, NetSarang backdoor. Extremist inspiration. BEC.

Episode Date: August 16, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about a new draft of NIST SP 800-53. There's been an attempt to brute-force email credentials in Scotland's Parliament. Fa...

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Lazarus Group is back, phishing in English. Extremist content online. Google cleans up SonicSpy. Arrests for HBO hacking are unrelated to "Mr. Smith." Marcus Hutchins is out on. DJI drones get a security makeover. Help desk scams.

Episode Date: August 15, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that the Lazarus Group is back, and now they're phishing in English. The Daily Stormer gets the boot, but companies and go...

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Charlottesville hacking. Operation #LeakTheAnalyst. Dissatisfied customer calls ShadowBrokers a "ripoff." More HBO leaks. Google purging SonicSpy. Collusion attacks. Marcus Hutchins in court.

Episode Date: August 14, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about online reactions and hacks in response to the Charlottesville rioting and homicide. Operation #LeakTheAnalyst releas...

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HBO offered Mr. Smith a bug bounty, but no takers. Fancy Bear's in hotel Wi-Fi. DNC leak argument resumes. Locky and Mamba ransomware are back. ISIS on eBay. NotPetya arrest. WikiLeaks dumps more from Vault7.

Episode Date: August 11, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that Mr. Smith turned down HBO's offer of a $250,000 bug bounty. Fancy Bear uses EternalBlue tools against hotel Wi-Fi net...

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Kenyan elections, not hacked? Someone's poking into DPRK systems. DDoS in Ukraine. Pseudoransomware protection. Spyware in Play Store. HBO hack.

Episode Date: August 10, 2017

In today's podcast, we learn that EU election monitors say Kenyan presidential voting went off without hacking (the losing opposition disagrees). Germ...

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Patches, passwords, wipers, and pseudoransomware. New fronts in hybrid war? KONNI, OnionDog, and Israbye.

Episode Date: August 9, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that Patch Tuesday saw Windows and Adobe fixes. Venezuela's civil conflict gets a hacktivist dimension. Anti-Israeli wiper...

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Power grid risks. Update on the Mandiant employee hack. "Mr. Smith" holds HBO for ransom. Shipping industry looks for GPS backup. DHL sees a NotPetya windfall. Google patches ten Android remote-code execution vulnerabilities. NIST issues a Cybersecurity W

Episode Date: August 8, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about a security incident at EirGrid, a misconfigured server in Texas, and a demonstration of photovoltaic system hacking...

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US Army bans DJI COTS drones. Amazon will scan AWS customers' S3 buckets for public accessibility. Recommendations for election security. Marcus Huchins pleads not guilty to Kronos-related charges.

Episode Date: August 7, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that the US Army bans, immediately, all use of DJI commercial-off-the-shelf drones. We discuss two known unknowns and offe...

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MalwareTech arrested over Kronos banking Trojan. "Bateleur" in the wild. Long DDoS hits Chinese telco. Russian influence operations no longer novel? FBI investigates HBO hack.

Episode Date: August 4, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that security researcher MalwareTech has been arrested as the alleged author of the Kronos banking Trojan. Carbanak hoods...

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WikiLeaks dumps Dumbo dox. HBO's hack gets bigger. Group IB outs the United Islamic Cyber Force. Cerber goes after Bitcoin. Lawsuits over NotPetya; more companies warn. Election fraud in Venezuela.

Episode Date: August 3, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that WikiLeaks has dumped "Dumbo" project documents. Separation of agencies as a way of rendering leaks less likely. HBO's...

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Following up on security scrambles in Sweden and Ukraine. #LeakTheAnalyst. Blu Product phones booted by Amazon. BitCoin's hard fork. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017.

Episode Date: August 2, 2017

In today's podcast we following up on some of the stories we've been tracking: the latest on Operation #LeakTheAnalyst, firmware spyware in down-marke...

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HBO hacked. Operation #LeakTheAnalyst targets individual security researchers. Election hacking notes. UK's Home Secretary opposes strong encryption. Russia bans VPNs. Bitcoin, crime, and punishment.

Episode Date: August 1, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about the HBO hack, and the exposure of episodes and scripts Operation #LeakTheAnalyst targets individual security researc...

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Black Hat 2017 - Research and Investment [Special Edition]

Episode Date: August 1, 2017

Black Hat 2017 has wrapped up, and by all accounts it was another successful conference, with an active trade show floor, exciting keynotes and engagi...

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Investigation into ShadowBrokers focuses on former insiders. Threat analyst doxed. Trickbot and NotPetya updates. Sweden's big breach. DPRK hacks online gaming for revenue.

Episode Date: July 31, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that US investigators are looking for a disgruntled former insider in the ShadowBrokers case. Operation #HackTheAnalyst cla...

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WikiLeaks and the ShadowBrokers are both back. Catphishing the French elections. Pyongyang's Bitcoin miners. Malware notes, industry news, and a rundown of the Pwnie Awards.

Episode Date: July 28, 2017

In today's podcast, we learn that WikiLeaks has dumped Vault7 documents attributed to the CIA. Russian catphish are said to have nibbled at French Pre...

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"Mia Ash" is an Iranian catphish. WikiLeaks dumps UMBRAGE from Vault7. Germany braces for hacking by Russia, China, and Iran. Google kicks unwelcome intercept tool Lipizzan out of the PlayStore. WhatsApp scammers phish for banking credentials. Anti-drone

Episode Date: July 27, 2017

In today's podcast we hear there's a new catphish out in the wild: meet Mia Ash. WikiLeaks throws shade by dumping UMBRAGE from Vault7. Germany braces...

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Counterattackers' advantage? Juche no competition for cat videos, next-day delivery. CopyKitten crude but effective. FBI investigated Fruitfly Mac malware. Adobe will retire Flash in 2020. BSides notes.

Episode Date: July 26, 2017

In today's podcast we hear about a Symantec study that shows APTs use some pretty buggy tools. Juche may not extend to the Internet, at least for Pyon...

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