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Best CyberWire podcasts we could find (updated February 2020)
Best CyberWire podcasts we could find
Updated February 2020
Updated February 2020
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A weekly conversation on cybersecurity law and policy, surveillance and digital privacy. Hosted by the CyberWire's Dave Bittner and Ben Yelin from the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. They break down important current legal cases, policy battles, and regulatory matters along with the news headlines that matter most. It’s not just a podcast for lawyers and policymakers; security professionals, businesses, and anyone concerned about privacy and security in the di ...
Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans Podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines and taking a heavy toll on organizations around the world. We talk to social engineering experts, security pros, cognitive scientists, and those practiced in the arts of deception (perhaps even a magician or two). We also hear from people targeted by social engineering attacks and learn from their experiences.
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1Chrome zero-day patched. Ransomware against infrastructure. Notes from RSAC 2020. Julian Assange’s extradition hearing.20:45
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Google patches a Chrome zero-day. Ransomware attacks against infrastructure. DoppelPaymer prepares to dox its victims. How CISA and NSA cooperate. Dallas County, Iowa, finally drops charges against pentesters. Mr. Assange’s evolving defense against extradition to the US. Notes on RSAC 2020. And if you were a superhero, which superhero would you be?…
Joe shares some insights into the art of cheating travelers, Dave has a story of a woman facing drug charges trying to kidnap another woman's baby, an update on last week's bizarre phone scam, The Catch of the Day features otters, sexy ham, frustrated scammers and... you're just going to need to listen. Later in the show, our interview with Tim Sad…
Ben wonders why law enforcement are often cagey when it comes to revealing the electronic surveillance tools they make use of, Dave shares a story of a judge requiring an insurance company to help a small business clean up after a ransomware attack, and later in the show we speak with Peter A. Halprin, who is a partner in Pasich LLP’s New York offi…
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The CyberWire
1Cloud Snooper is out and about. US states’ contracts with Chinese vendors. Voatz receives more scrutiny. Facebook’s troll hunt--no joy this time. Notes from RSAC 2020.22:59
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Cloud Snooper is infesting cloud infrastructure servers. A China-skeptical advocacy group draws attention to US states’ contracts with Chinese vendors that aren’t named “Huawei.” Senator Wyden would like the security company that audited the Voatz to explain the clean bill of health it gave the voting app. Facebook’s campaign troll hunt comes up em…
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1Reactions to allegations in Georgia’s October cyber incidents. Commodification of spamming kit. Satellite vulnerabilities. Election security. FISA reauthorization? Mr. Assange’s extradition. RSAC 2020 ...21:30
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The EU condemns Russian cyberattacks on Georgia, and Russia says Russia didn’t do it--it’s all propaganda. Skids can buy spamming tools for less than twenty bucks. Satellite constellations offer an expanding attack surface. Amid continuing worries about US election security, the question of Russian trolling or home-grown American vitriol arises in …
*This is a rebroadcast from our Cyber Law and Policy show, Caveat.* Ben describes a decades-long global espionage campaign alleged to have been carried out by the CIA and NSA, Dave shares a story about the feds using cell phone location data for immigration enforcement, and later in the show our conversation with Drew Harwell from the Washington Po…
SafeBreach Labs discovered a new vulnerability in the Realtek HD Audio Driver Package, which is deployed on PCs containing Realtek sound cards. On this week's Research Saturday, our conversation with Itzik Kotler, who is Co-Founder and CTO at SafeBreach. The research can be found here: Realtek HD Audio Driver Package - DLL Preloading and Potential …
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1DISA data breach. More complaint against alleged GUR operations in Georgia. Trolls move from creation to curation. The UK deals with high-risk 5G vendors.23:14
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The US Defense Information Agency discloses a data breach affecting personal information of up to two-hundred thousand individuals. More international reprobation for the alleged GRU hack of Georgian websites. Trolls move from creation to curation. Stalkerware data exposure. And a look at how the UK might actually implement its compromise position …
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1UK, US blame Russia for 2019 Georgia hacks. Senator Sanders thinks Russian bots could impersonate supporters. Mr. Assange’s extradition. MGM Resorts breach. Ms Winner wants a pardon.21:26
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British and American authorities blame Russia’s GRU for last October’s defacement campaign against Georgian websites. Senator Sanders thinks maybe some of his apparent supporters are Russian bots--the ones who are tweeting bad stuff in social media. Julian Assange says he was offered a pardon to say the Russians didn’t meddle with the DNC. Stolen d…
Dave shares the most bizarrely honest phone scam of all time, Joe has a pretend PayPal phishing scam, the Catch of the Day finally lets Dave show us his best Blanche Devereaux, and later in the show Christopher Hadnagy from Social Engineer LLC returns with an update on the trends he’s been tracking. Links to stories: Active PayPal Phishing Scam Tar…
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1Ransomware hits US natural gas pipeline facility. DRBControl’s espionage campaign. Firmware signing. No bill of attainder against Huawei. A mistrial in the Vault 7 case?20:45
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CISA reports a ransomware infestation in a US natural gas compression facility--it arrived by spearphishing and there are, CISA thinks, larger lessons to be learned. A new threat actor, possibly linked to China’s government, is running an espionage campaign against gambling and betting operations in Southeast Asia. More notes on firmware signatures…
Ben describes a decades-long global espionage campaign alleged to have been carried out by the CIA and NSA, Dave shares a story about the feds using cell phone location data for immigration enforcement, and later in the show our conversation with Drew Harwell from the Washington Post on his article on how Colleges are turning students’ phones into …
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1Fox Kitten campaign linked to Iran. LokiBot’s new clothes. Unsigned firmware. Iowa Democratic caucus post-mortem. SoftBank and the GRU. Hacker madness.21:04
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Fox Kitten appears to combine three APTs linked to Iran. LokiBot is masquerading as an installer for Epic Games. Unsigned firmware found in multiple devices. Extortionists threaten to flood AdSense banners with bot traffic. China says the Empire of Hackers is in Washington, not Beijing. Iowa Democratic caucus IT post-mortems continue. Japan connect…
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1If you can't detect it, you can't steal it.23:25
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BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, Israel, is introducing the first all-optical “stealth” encryption technology that will be significantly more secure and private for highly-sensitive cloud computing and data center network transmission. Joining us in this special Research Saturday is BGN'…
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1Huawei gets a RICO prosecution. Details on DPRK Hidden Cobra Trojans. Google takes down Chrome malvertising network. Run DNC. Hacker madness. Happy St. Valentine’s Day.23:36
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The US indicts Huawei for racketeering. The FBI and CISA release details on malware used by North Korea’s Hidden Cobra. Iran attributes last week’s DDoS attack to the US. Google takes down a big malvertising and click-fraud network that exploited Chrome extensions. Reports surface of DNC involvement in IowaReporterApp. Not all official advice is ne…
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1Internecine phishing in the Palestinian Territories. What could Iran do in cyberspace? US Census 2020 and cybersecurity. Mobile voting. How to make bigger money in sextortion.20:55
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Researchers report phishing campaigns underway in the Palestinian Territories. They appear to be a Hamas-linked effort targeting the rival Fatah organization. FireEye offers a summary of current Iranian cyber capabilities. The GAO warns that the Census Bureau still has some cyber security work to do before this year’s count. Researchers call mobile…
Joe shares a collection of romance scams from the great plains, Dave has a report which uncovered a root system of fake news, the catch of the day comes straight from... Warren Buffett? Later in the show Carole Theriault speaks with Lisa Forte from Red Goat on how her experiences working with the police have informed her perspective on the human fa…
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1Facebook takes down coordinated inauthenticity. US says it’s got the goods on Huawei. EU will leave facial recognition policy up to member states. Patch Tuesday. Counting on the caucus.20:27
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Facebook takes down coordinated inauthenticity from Myanmar, Vietnam, Iran, and Russia. The US says it’s got the goods on Huawei’s backdoors. Notes on Patch Tuesday. The EU backs away from a five-year moratorium on facial recognition software. Switzerland takes a look at Crypto AG. And the Nevada Democratic caucus a week from Saturday will use iPad…
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1The practical concerns of data encryption.44:00
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Dave shares a story about the government compelling some tech giants to help find a WhatsApp drug dealer, Ben follows developments on the ClearView facial recognition story that the New York Times recently broke, and later in the show, our conversation with Tommy Ross. He serves as Senior Director of Policy, BSA | The Software Alliance, and we’re g…
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1Pyongyang’s guide to hacking on behalf of rogue regimes. RATs in the supply chain? Data exposures and data breaches. Securing elections (and caucuses, too).20:38
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Pyongyang establishes a template for pariah states trying to profit in cyberspace. The FBI warns that there’s a RAT in the ICS software supply chain. The US has a new counterintelligence strategy, and cyber figures in it prominently. Likud’s exposure of Israeli voter data may benefit opposition intelligence services. Notes on the Equifax breach ind…
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1US indicts PLA officers in Equifax hack. Pyongyang shows pariah states how it’s done. DDoS in Iran. Updates on Democratic Party caucus IT issues. Likud has a buggy app, too.21:14
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US indicts four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army in connection with the 2017 Equifax breach. North Korea establishes an Internet template for pariah regimes’ sanctions evasion. Iran sustained a major DDoS attack Saturday. US Democratic Party seeks to avoid a repetition of the Iowa caucus in other states as the Sanders campaign asks for a…
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The Chameleon attack technique is a new type of OSN-based trickery where malicious posts and profiles change the way they are displayed to OSN users to conceal themselves before the attack or avoid detection. Joining us to discuss their findings in a new report entitled "The Chameleon Attack: Manipulating Content Display in Online Social Media" is …
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1Chinese cyber espionage in Malaysia and Japan. Android Bluetooth bug. Google expels suspect apps from the Play store. More Iowa caucus finger-pointing. US preps indictments of Chinese nationals.25:36
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Chinese espionage groups target Malaysian officials, and two more Japanese defense contractors say they were breached, also by China. Google patches Android problems, including an unusual Bluetooth bug. Google also expels apps that wanted unreasonable permissions from the Play store. Some in Iowa say the DNC pushed an eleventh-hour security patch t…
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1Iowa caucus problems induced by buggy counting and reporting app. Bitbucket repositories used to spread malware. Gamaredon active again against Ukraine. Charming Kitten’s phishing.21:04
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Iowa Democrats continue to count their caucus results, and blame for the mess is falling squarely on Shadow, Inc.’s IowaReporterApp. Bitbucket repositories are found spreading malware. The attack on Toll Group turns out to be Mailto ransomware. The Gamaredon Group is active, against, against Ukrainian targets. Charming Kitten’s been phishing. And t…
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Dave finally has good news. Joe shares a fake website created by the US Trading Commission... which doesn't exist. The catch of the day threatens FULL DATA LOSS! Later in the show, Anna Collard is the founder of security content publisher of Popcorn Training – a South African company that promotes Cyber Security awareness by using story-based techn…
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1Update on the Iowa Democrats’ bad app. DDoS warning for state election sites. DDoS trends. New ransomware tracked. Tehran spoofing emails? Nintendo hacker pleads guilty.20:34
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Iowa’s Democrats are still counting their caucus results, but on the other hand they weren’t hacked. A poorly built and badly tested app is still being blamed, and that judgment seems likely to hold up. The FBI warns of a DDoS attempt against a state voter registration site. Trends in DDoS. Some new strains of ransomware are out in the wild. Spoofe…
Dave shares a story about Amazon trying to have its cake and eat it, too when it comes to product liability. Ben has developments on the ClearView facial recognition story that the New York Times recently broke, and later in the show our conversation with Mike Overly from Foley & Lardner on cybersecurity in aviation. Links to stories: How amazon es…
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1Buggy app delays count in Iowa Democratic caucus. US county election sites ill-prepared against influence ops. Twitter fixes API exploited by fake accounts. NIST on ransomware.21:02
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Iowa Democrats work to sort out app-induced confusion over Monday’s Presidential caucus. A McAfee study finds widespread susceptibility to influence operations in US county websites. Twitter fixes an API vulnerability and suspends a large network of fake accounts. NIST’s proposed ransomware defense standards are out for your review--comments are op…
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1More on EKANS, the ransomware with an ICS kicker. Shipping company customer-facing IT disrupted in cyber incident. Coronavirus as phishbait. Election security, new DoD rules, and insider threats.17:26
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Dragos publicly releases its full report on EKANS ransomware, the first known ransomware with a real if primitive capability against industrial control systems. An Australian logistics company struggles with an unspecified malware infestation. Coronovirus fake news used as phishbait. Election security may get an early test in Iowa. The US Departmen…
