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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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Daily: Stressor, booter shoppers arrested. Small DDoS against Russian banks. Botnets and home routers. Popcorn Time ransomware. US investigates Russian influence operations.

Episode Date: December 12, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about how an international police action swept up youths shopping for DDoS tools. Russian banks sustain a mild, easily par...

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Daily & Week in Review: Korean cyber alert amid a presidential impeachment. Germany calls out Fancy Bear for influence ops. Georgia—the Dixie one, not the one in the Caucasus—demands a cyber explanation. Holiday phishing, the enduring DDoS threat, and

Episode Date: December 9, 2016

In today's podcast, South Korea braces for the North to take cyber advantage of a constitutional crisis, but so far all's quiet. (Or most is quiet, an...

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Daily: IP theft in Germany. "Sledgehammer" looks like DDoS by Turkish patriotic hacktivists. Floki Bot and Dridex in the wild. Competition for cyber talent in a tight labor market.

Episode Date: December 8, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about an industrial espionage campaign against Germany's steel industry. Turkish hacktivists' Sledgehammer gamifies DDoS (...

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Daily: Ransomware updates. IP camera vulnerabilities. Steganography makes a comeback. Controlling content, with or without Internet autarky. Zo replaces Tay? 

Episode Date: December 7, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear that more network security cameras have been found vulnerable to bot-herding. Sony's are patched, so patch. Unpatched Flas...

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Daily: State-directed cyberattacks in the 2017 forecast. Tenable's Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card. DDoS and ransomware notes. Content filtering in social media. Connected toys too curious.

Episode Date: December 6, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear that more state-directed hacking is in the forecast for 2017 (and Pyongyang seems to have a head start). A new DDoS botnet...

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Presidential Commission on Cybersecurity offers its recommendations to the next President. Russia says its financial system is under cyber threat. Cybercrime notes, and a scorecard.

Episode Date: December 5, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear what the US Presidential Commission on Cybersecurity recommended in its long-anticipated report. Russia's FSB says today's...

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Daily & Week in Review: Europol and its partners say they've got the head of the Avalanche snake. DDoS and IoT botnet updates. Android vulnerability. New rules for warrants and insider threats.

Episode Date: December 2, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about an international take down of the Avalanche cybercrime ring. (Bravo, FBI…and others.) A vulnerability in AirDroid is...

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Daily: Shamoon and Fancy Bear are back. Mirai never left. San Francisco Muni saved by good backups. New Android Trojan found. Firefox patches threat to Tor anonymity. Surveillance policy, ISIS investigations in Germany. 

Episode Date: December 1, 2016

In today's podcast, we learn that Shamoon is back, again probably from Iran, and again hitting Saudi targets. Mirai infestations are turning up in the...

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Daily: Mirai remains a threat; experts expect more IoT-driven DDoS. ISIS, online radicalization, and terror attacks in the US. Snooper's Charter and its alternatives. Gooligan Android malware.

Episode Date: November 30, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about Deutsche Telekom's recovery from DDoS, and why there's probably a lot more Mirai where that came from. Omri Iluz fro...

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Daily: ISIS online sympathizers (but not ISIS itself, which is lying a bit low) claim Ohio State attacker. German security agencies warn of possible Russian disruption of elections. Mirai strikes again. San Francisco's Muni shrugs off ransomware. A look a

Episode Date: November 29, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about how ISIS sympathizers are celebrating the Ohio State slasher rampage in social media. Germany's BND warns of Russian...

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Securing a Deal - Cyber Security Venture Capitalists on what they look for. A CyberWire Special Edition. [Special Edition]

Episode Date: November 29, 2016

In this CyberWire Podcast Special Edition, we examine the current state of investment in cyber security, speak to experts in the field, and learn from...

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Daily: Military, law enforcement cooperation take a toll of ISIS operators. DDoS investigations. Mirai botnet can be rented on the black market. Beware ATM skimmers. Ransomware hits San Francisco light rail. Bogus news of cable show hacking.

Episode Date: November 28, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about how military, law enforcement cooperation are taking a toll of ISIS cyber operators. President Obama says the US ele...

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Daily: ISIS shows a slightly different face in cyberspace. BITAG issues advice to the IoT industry. Jackpotting and carding investigated.

Episode Date: November 23, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about how ISIS is making its way, quietly, back into the cyber news (and how the Australian Signals Directorate is on the...

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Daily: Banks are vulnerable to more than carding and transfer fraud. Ransomware updates. Lessons for users from the Three Mobile hack. Biometrics (with hedgehog). Election hacking retrospective.

Episode Date: November 22, 2016

In today's podcast we hear about the FBI's warning that cash-spewing ATMs could be coming to a strip mall near you, courtesy of the Russian mob. Bad n...

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Daily: More of the customary cybercrime, but with additional warnings of new ransomware vectors. Dodgy apps and holiday shopping. Credential abuse. No pardon for Snowden, for now, anyway.

Episode Date: November 21, 2016

In today's podcast, we talk about thinking twice before opening pictures received via Facebook Messenger. A recruiting site exposes GitHub profiles. I...

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Daily & Week in Review: US DNI Clapper says Russia "curtailed" election hacking after being named. Three Mobile breached. Android and iOS issues. Good news on ransomware. Start-up rundown. China calls its Internet controls "wisdom."

Episode Date: November 18, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about US DNI Clapper's long-expected resignation and his contention that attributing election hacking to Russia seems to h...

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Daily: Social media aren't automatically on the right side of history, it seems. More on the Adups backdoor. Holiday shopping cyber-safety and security.

Episode Date: November 17, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about German concerns over Russian meddling in elections. In the US, the NSA Director says a nation-state made a conscious...

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Daily: An insider threat deadline approaches. Lawful intercept tools from Italy. Carbanak moves to new targets. Security policy in Germany and the US. A guilty plea in the TalkTalk hack.

Episode Date: November 16, 2016

In today's podcast, we hear about some lawful intercept tools that have been found prospecting Android. Synack calls shenanigans on Shazam, but maybe...

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Daily: It walks, it talks, it reports to Shanghai. Locky takes a run at US Army Cyber Command. CrySis decrypted. SpamTorte 2.0 is out. Adults should be warned off by "adult."

Episode Date: November 15, 2016

In today's podcast we hear about a backdoor Kryptowire has found preinstalled in some Android phones. We speak with Ryan Johnson, the researcher who d...

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Daily: Russian banks suffer IoT botnet DDoS. Fancy Bear's still phishing. Lessons from Tesco fraud. Third-party risk hits Michael Page. Casino Rama data breach. Adult website loses data for 339 million accounts. FTC litigation. Moscow anti-trust case.

Episode Date: November 14, 2016

In today's podcast, we follow up on last week's DDoS against Russian banks. Fancy Bear's been poking at think tanks, and ESET has a rundown of Fancy's...

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