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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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US Clean Network program outlines measures against Chinese operations. $10 million reward offered for info on election interference. Australia’s cyber strategy is out. Grand larceny and petty lulz.

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

The US announces five new lines of effort for the Clean Network program, and none of them are exactly mash notes for Beijing. The US is also offering...

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Privacy, Fort Meade style. Interpol looks at cybercrime. Oilrig gets DNSExfiltrator. Please move on from Windows 7. Updates on the Twitter hack.

Episode Date: August 5, 2020

NSA, yes, NSA, has some privacy advice. Interpol offers its take on where cybercrime is going during the time of the pandemic. Iran’s Oilrig is gettin...

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US attributes Taidoor RAT to China’s government. Pegasus spyware in Togo. The TikTok affair. More fallout from the Blackbaud ransomware incident.

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

The US attributes the Taidoor remote access Trojan to the Chinese government. Sources tell Reuters that documents used in an attempt to influence the...

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Microsoft considers acquiring TikTok. The US considers other Chinese companies as potential security threats. Charges in the Twiter hack. DDoS turns out to be a glitch. Garmin hack update.

Episode Date: August 3, 2020

Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok as the US hints that it may be considering action against other Chinese software companies. Three young men ha...

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Rely on your strengths in the areas of the unknown. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: August 2, 2020

Director of Security Engineering at Marqeta and Host of Hacker Valley Studio podcast Chris Cochran describes his transitions throughout the cybersecur...

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Detecting Twitter bots in real time. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 1, 2020

NortonLifeLock Research Group (NRG) released a prototype browser extension called BotSight that leverages machine learning to detect Twitter bots in r...

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Social engineering at Twitter. Phishing kits and hackers for hire. Cyberespionage. The EU sanctions actors for Cloudhopper, WannaCry, and NotPetya. And security advice from NSA and NIST.

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

An update on social engineering at Twitter. A quick look at the phishing kit criminal market. The European Union sanctions individuals and organizatio...

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A quick look at Big Tech’s antitrust testimony. BootHole may be tough to patch. Fake COVID contact tracers. Netwalker warning. And Chinese espionage against the Vatican and the United Kingdom.

Episode Date: July 30, 2020

Yesterday’s antitrust hearings in the US House of Representatives focus on Big Tech’s big data as something open to use in restraint of trade. And the...

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Alleged Russian disinformation campaigns. Beijing’s cyberespionage hits the Vatican. Costly PII losses. VPNs and OT security. Big Tech’s day with Congress. Online bar exams. Snooping for the Saudis.

Episode Date: July 29, 2020

Alleged Russian influence operations described by US intelligence services. “Ghostwriter” targets the Baltic region with anti-NATO false narratives. C...

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Data breaches and responsibility. Where do you get a decryptor for WastedLocker? Third-party risk. Misconfigured databases. Follow-up on the Twitter hack.

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

Cloudflare says that reported Ukrainian breaches aren’t its issue. Trend Micro describes a new and unusually capable strain of malware. Garmin is repo...

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Vigilante action against Emotet. Third-party risks and data breaches. Cerberus is for sale. And WastedLocker ransomware and the fortunes of crime.

Episode Date: July 27, 2020

A vigilante appears to be interfering with Emotet’s payloads. A fintech breach is blamed on a third-party service provider. A list of Cloudflare users...

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No matter the statistic, even if against the odds, focus on what you want. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: July 26, 2020

Privacy and data security lawyer, Dominique Shelton Leipzig shares that she has always wanted to be a lawyer, ever since she was a little girl. She ta...

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It was only a matter of time. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 25, 2020

On April 29, 2020, the Salt management framework, authored by the IT automation company SaltStack, received a patch concerning two CVEs; CVE-2020-1165...

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A warning for US critical infrastructure operators. Blackbaud extortion and data breach update. Who’s got the keys to Twitter? Sino-American cyber tensions.

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

CISA and NSA warn of a foreign threat to US critical infrastructure. A look at what the Bears have been up to lately. The Blackbaud extortion incident...

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Twitter: hackers got a few accounts’ DMs. French policy toward Huawei hardens. Crooks against British sport. You and your boss should talk more.

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

Twitter updates the news of last week’s incident: the attackers seem to have accessed some direct messages. France’s partial permission for Huawei to...

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Meowing exposed databases. US indicts two Chinese nationals for hacking, and orders China to close its Houston consulate.

Episode Date: July 22, 2020

“Meowing” is now a thing: the automated discovery and wiping of exposed and unprotected databases. The US indicts two Chinese nationals on eleven coun...

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Parliament gets its report on Russian hacking. A look at the cyber criminal economy. Russia says it has no hackers.

Episode Date: July 21, 2020

The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has rendered its report on the Russian cyber threat. Trend Micro reports on the workings of the...

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Following the spoor of the Twitter hackers, a couple of whom seem to be talking to the press. Marketing databases and intelligence collection. TikTok ban? Hacking biomedical research.

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

Notes on last week’s Twitter hack, and on the allure of original gangster and other celebrity usernames. Using marketing databases for intelligence co...

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Have to be able to communicate to everybody. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: July 19, 2020

Computer security writer, podcaster and public speaker Graham Cluley describes learning to program on his own from magazines, creating text adventure...

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Every time we get smarter, the bad guy changes something. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 18, 2020

Researchers at Symantec spotted a Sodinokibi targeted ransomware campaign in which the attackers are also scanning the networks of some victims for cr...

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