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WannaCry ransomware spreads via ShadowBrokers' dumped exploit. Necurs delivers Jaff ransomware. Fancy Bear spoofs NATO emails. President Trump's Executive Order on cybersecurity.

Episode Date: May 12, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about the long-expected US Executive Order, with commentary from Politico's Eric Geller. It was signed yesterday, and give...

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French media recover from DDoS. XaverAd infests Android ecosystem. Zero-days patched, but exploited in the wild. Mother's day giftcard hacking. Telephonic harassment.

Episode Date: May 11, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that French media sites are recovering from a massive, successful DDoS attack whose source is still under investigation. A...

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NSA says it warned France of election influence ops. Deterrence and retaliatory capability. SLocky ransomware rising. Patch Tuesday. FBI Director Comey dismissed.

Episode Date: May 10, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that NSA says it warned its French counterparts about Russian cyber ops targeting France's elections. Next up for Fancy Be...

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Metadata signs point to St. Petersburg in l'affaire Macron. UK, Germany, US expect more Russian election influence ops. New IoT botnet appears. US FCC sustains DDoS. Microsoft fixes MsMpEngine. SS7 weakness and 2FA.

Episode Date: May 9, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that haste may make for, not exactly waste, but at least brazen and ineffectual influence operations. Metadata evidence of...

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Election cyber-influence campaign in France. (Will UK and Germany follow?) AMT bug to be fixed. HandBrake compromised. Kazuar upgrade for Snake. Ransomware black market.

Episode Date: May 8, 2017

In today's podcast, we discuss Emmanuel Macron's victory in France's presidential election despite last-minute hacking and leaked emails. (Hacked emai...

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Influence operations and elections, and the difficulty of doing anything about them. Dynamite phishing investigation. Snake hisses at Macs. Fatboy at your (criminal) service.

Episode Date: May 5, 2017

In today's podcast we hear about elections and election influence operations in Europe, and the difficulty of taming Fancy Bear. Some weekend reading....

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Phishing with a big worm (and other lures). Botnet mining cryptocurrency. Blackmoon upgraded. Aadhaar troubles in India. Passwords, security questions, and Grand Moff Tarkin's CISO.

Episode Date: May 4, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about how OAuth abuse rushed a worm around Google Docs, and how the good guys swiftly contained the attack. Bondnet discov...

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Shamoon update. Sabre discloses possible breach to SEC. Mobile device and VPN threats and vulnerabilities. Information operations and cyberespionage.

Episode Date: May 3, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that Shamoon's Trojan servant seems to have got a new comms channel. Sabre discloses possible breach: hospitality and trave...

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IBM, Apple, and Intel all fix vulnerabilities and block threats. Neustar's DDoS report. Updates on the DarkOverlord and (separately) LizardSquad. Info ops and what they're after.

Episode Date: May 2, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that Trojanized USB sticks are out in the wild. So are phishing emails complete with backdoors and spyware payloads. Intel...

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NSA changes collection policy in a privacy-friendly direction. Latest Vault7 leaks look anodyne. Election influence concerns in Europe and the US. Blocking social media. DarkOverlord returns with extortion caper.

Episode Date: May 1, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear how the NSA is revising its interpretation of Section 702 collection, to the general approval of privacy advocates. WikiLe...

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OilRig fingered as Iranian state-sponsored group behind attempted hacks of Israeli targets. Shamoon still under the same management. Botnet wars in the IoT. Countermessaging, hopes of missile hacks, and more. 

Episode Date: April 28, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that researchers have named the hitherto unnamed country that attempted to hack Israeli targets. Other researchers conclud...

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Fancy Bear in France (and in Germany, too). Israel debates Cyber Authority's charter. Sudan says its using Electronic Jihad against ISIS. Verizon, Symantec threat reports out. Adware campaigns.

Episode Date: April 27, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about the bear tracks analysts are seeing in Macron's campaign for France's presidency. (They're also appearing in German...

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Elections, influence operations, and hacking. How clever phishing succeeds. Chipotle's point-of-sale breach. Hacking in Fast and Furious 8.

Episode Date: April 26, 2017

In today's podcast, we follow the story of Fancy Bear (a.k.a. Pawn Storm, a.k.a. APT28) and France's elections. Why clever phishing continues to succe...

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Fancy Bear spotted in France, Denmark, and maybe Bulgaria. Tensions mount around North Korean weapon programs. Power grid fragility. Milkydoor in the PlayStore. AV misunderstanding. Kelihos indictment. Ashley Madison blackmail.

Episode Date: April 25, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that Fancy Bear has as expected been spotted snuffling around the French Presidential election. Denmark and Bulgaria also...

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Nation-state tensions in cyberspace over North Korean threats and presumably Russian cyberespionage. Locky returns. More pharma spam. Seleznev gets 27 years for carding.

Episode Date: April 24, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that cyberattack worries mount with international tensions over North Korea. France's first-round presidential elections co...

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States and gangs. Insider threats and mole hunts. The misguided vigilante behind BrikerBot. Hollywood hacks. Not a Nigerian prince this time, just the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency.

Episode Date: April 21, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that cyber gangs are busily at work reverse-engineering the last ShadowBrokers' document dump. But the Russian ones at leas...

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Trojanized apps in the PlayStore. How cybergangs talk, cooperate, and improve their game. More troubles reported for Tanium. A Chicago lawsuit brings privacy issues to the fore.

Episode Date: April 20, 2017

In today's podcast we hear about snakes in the PlayStore's walled garden (one of them with a helpful flashlight, and another one with a plumber's cap...

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Vigilantes in the IoT. Bad actors find a friend in the ShadowBrokers. BankBot is back in the PlayStore. Pixel-tracking for target recon. A very big Oracle patch.

Episode Date: April 19, 2017

In today's podcast we hear about a new vigilante in the IoT—Hajime—and learn that the security industry doesn't think much of vigilantes. Observers po...

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Karmen in the black market. Homograph vulnerabilities. Vault 7 and ShadowBrokers updates. Hacks and missiles. Competing for botnets.

Episode Date: April 18, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about a newish ransomware strain, Karmen, hitting the low-end ransomware-as-a-service market. Homograph vulnerability proo...

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Missiles and malware? ShadowBrokers' leaks examined. Syrian info ops. ISIS recruits women for martyrdom. Ransomware, medical device vulnerability updates. Troubled unicorn?

Episode Date: April 17, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about a big missile fizzle on Pyongyang's Day of the Sun yesterday—there's hopeful but a priori speculation of a cyber op...

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