North Korea turns to cryptocurrency theft. Equifax breach gets worse. Patch Tuesday. Duma says US election hacked
In today's podcast, we hear that North Korea's stealing all the Bitcoins it can find. The Equifax breach continues to spread: countries other than the US are increasingly involved. Patch Tuesday notes...
13 Sep 201717min
Equifax breach news. Unsecured admin accounts. BlueBorne via Bluetooth. Hackable medical devices. Bots convince. A guilty plea draws a long sentence.
In today's podcast, we hear about how Equifax has attracted more attention from plaintiffs, AGs, and Congress. Everyone else is on heightened alert for fraud and identity theft. MongoDB says users of ...
12 Sep 201717min
Everything Equifax, with some notes on German election vulnerabilities and an update on the Crackas With Attitude.
Today's podcast features all things Equifax, as the credit bureau deals with its breach (and the lawyers and Wall Street wind up to deal with the credit bureau). The Chaos Computer Club says it's foun...
11 Sep 201714min
Equifax decides to tell people it's been breached. Notes from the Intelligence and National Security Summit. WikiLeaks dumps missile guidance documents from Vault7. The ShadowBrokers are back, with a new offer.
In today's podcast we hear that credit bureau Equifax had disclosed a massive data breach it discovered on July 29th. Does that mean they're about a month delinquent? WikiLeaks weekly Vault7 dump depa...
8 Sep 201723min
DragonFly 2.0 in power grids. Cyberespionage in the South China Sea. Russian Facebook ads. "Fake News" survey.
DragonFly 2.0 is up to some very bad things in several nations' power grids. China ramps up cyberespionage against South China Sea rivals. Facebook finds that a Russian front company bought more than ...
7 Sep 201717min
Apache Struts patched. Dragonfly is in the power grid. Ransomware notes. Taringa breached. Cryptocurrencies in China and Russia. Signal stealing that's not SIGINT.
In today's podcast we hear about a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts. It's been patched—enterprises are advised to apply it as soon as possible. Dragonfly poses a clear and present danger to Eur...
6 Sep 201719min
Influence operations in Germany. More Turla. KHRAT looks like political spying. Exposed AWS S3 and MongoDB databases hit. Ransomware notes. Cyber gangland rumbles.
In today's podcast, we hear that election influence operations appear to have begun in Germany. Turla's spoor tracked to the Pacifier APT. Cambodia takes an authoritarian turn, possibly extending to d...
5 Sep 201715min
Kenyan election nullified over electronic irregularities. South China Sea cyber espionage. WikiLeaks' Vault7 dumps Angelfire. Accused leaker wants her statements excluded. DPRK raids ROK Bitcoin. WhopperCoin is here.
In today's podcast, we hear that Kenya's Supreme Court has nullified that country's presidential election results over electronic irregularities in the balloting. Chinese steps up cyber espionage agai...
1 Sep 201721min
