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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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Supply chain security. New cyberespionage from OceanLotus. Data breaches expose customer information. And GCHQ has had quite enough of this vaccine nonsense, thank you very much.

Episode Date: November 9, 2020

Alerts and guidelines on securing the software supply chain (and the hardware supply chain, too). OceanLotus is back with its watering holes. Two sign...

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Richard Clarke: From presidential inspiration to cybersecurity policy pioneer. [Policy] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: November 8, 2020

CEO and consultant Richard Clarke took his inspiration from President John F Kennedy and turned it into the first cybersecurity position in federal go...

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PoetRAT: a complete lack of operational security. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 7, 2020

Cisco Talos discovered PoetRAT earlier this year. Since then, they observed multiple new campaigns indicating a change in the actor's capabilities and...

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IRGC domains taken down. A look at 2021’s threatscape. Russia says its didn’t do anything (others see Bears.) Forfeiture of Silk Road’s hitherto unaccounted for billion-plus dollars.

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

The US Justice Department takes down twenty-seven domains being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Booz Allen offers its take on the 20...

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CISA’s happy but still wary. Election-themed criminal malspam. New ransomware goes after VMs. Why it makes no sense to trust extortionists.

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

CISA declares a modest but satisfying victory for election security, but cautions that it’s not over yet. Criminal gangs are using election-themed phi...

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US elections: CISA calls security success, but reminds all that it’s not over yet. Notes from the cyber underground. Two more indictments in cyberstalking case.

Episode Date: November 4, 2020

Election security, hunting forward, rumor control, and the value of preparation. Maze may be gone (so its proprietors say) but its affiliate market ha...

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Election security updates from CISA. Maze says it’s out of business (and never really existed). Edward Snowden wants dual Russian-US citizenship. A botmaster goes up river.

Episode Date: November 3, 2020

Notes on Election Day security, from CISA. The Maze gang finally releases its press release announcing that it’s going out of business. Mr. Snowden ap...

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Another look at North Korean cyberespionage. Phishing with Google Docs. How Iran obtained US voter information. Election security enters its endgame.

Episode Date: November 2, 2020

Another look at Pyongyang’s Kimsuky campaign. Phishing with bogus Google Docs. How Tehran got its hands on voter information. Rick Howard looks at con...

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Carole Theriault: Constantly learning new things. [Media] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: November 1, 2020

Communications consultant and podcaster Carole Theriault always loved radio and through her career dabbled in many areas .She landed in a communicatio...

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David Sanger on the HBO documentary based off his book, "The Perfect Weapon". [Special Edition]

Episode Date: November 1, 2020

On this Special Edition, our extended conversation with author and New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger. The Perfect Weapon ...

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Leveraging for a bigger objective. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 31, 2020

The U.S. government has charged seven men in relation to hundreds of cyber attacks against organizations in the U.S. and multiple other countries in A...

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Ransomware epidemic during the pandemic. Cyber insurance and state actors. Cyberstalking. Don’t exaggerate election meddling. Reflections on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

Ransomware becomes endemic in the healthcare sector. Cyber metaphors--we read a good one this morning. Does your cyber insurance indemnify you against...

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Familiar threat actors are back in the news. Big Tech’s testimony on Capitol Hill had less to do with Section 230 than many had foreseen.

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

Some familiar threat actors--both nation-states and criminal gangs--return to the news: Venomous Bear, Charming Kitten, Wizard Spider, and Maze. Mike...

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Warnings about the DPRK’s Kimsuky Group. Election security in the US during the endgame. Section 220 and Big Tech. Another guilty plea in the eBay-related cyberstalking case.

Episode Date: October 28, 2020

US authorities warn that North Korea’s Kimsuky APT is out and about and bent on espionage, with a little cryptojacking on the side. As the US election...

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Election phishing, without hook, but with line and sinker? Data breaches, and the importance of prompt disclosure. Misplaced hacktivist sympathy.

Episode Date: October 27, 2020

EI-ISAC reports a curious election-related phishing campaign, widespread, but indifferently coordinated and without an obvious motive. Nitro discloses...

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Russian research institute sanctioned for its role in Triton/Trisis. Coordinated inauthenticity in Myanmar. Clean Network program update. Major data breach in Finland.

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

The US Treasury Department sanctions a Russian research institute for its role in the Triton/Trisis ICS malware attacks. Coordinated inauthenticity wi...

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Sal Aurigemma: How things work. [Education] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 25, 2020

Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at the University of Tulsa Sal Aurigemma shares how his interest in how things worked shaped his c...

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Just saying there are attacks is not enough. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 24, 2020

Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence technique that will protect medical devices from malicious operating in...

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Energetic Bear’s battlespace preparation. Selling voter and consumer personal data. GRU, Qods Force sanctioned. How they knew that Iran dunnit.

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

Energetic Bear is back, and maybe getting ready to go berserk in a network near you, Mr. and Mrs. United States. Someone’s selling publicly available...

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Recent email threats to US voters appear to be an Iranian operation. Notes on cyberespionage and influence operations. Hold the “blatant Russophobia,” TASS?

Episode Date: October 22, 2020

Emailed election threats to US voters are identified as an Iranian influence operation, disruptive, and so more in the Russian style. Both Iran and Ru...

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