Online banking funds transfer fraud. Telegram and phone scams. FCC regulatory update. Insider threats in the IC. And bad robots.
In today's podcast we hear about how a criminal gang is deploying sophisticated malware against remote banking system customers. Business email compromise continues to appear in the wild—be good to yo...
2 Mars 201716min
Internet outages were errors, not attacks. Evolving Trojans and botnets. M&A news. Cyber casus belli. Terminators and teddy bears.
In today's podcast, we hear that yesterday's Internet outages were due to errors in Amazon's S3 servers. Dridex has evolved to become more evasive. The Necurs botnet acquires a DDoS capability. Web ca...
1 Mars 201716min
Alleged BND surveillance of news organizations. Snake Wine in Japan, for disinformation? Singapore military phished. Google discloses more Microsoft unpatched bugs. Cloudbleed update. CloudPets may have privacy issues.
In today's podcast, we learn that the BND may have been listening to the BBC, but not in a good way. Cylance reports on Snake Wine, a curiously familiar vintage sniffed in Japanese networks. Singapore...
28 Feb 201715min
If I Only Had a Brain... Artificial Intelligence Gets Real at RSA 2017 [Special Edition]
At the 2017 RSA conference, artificial intelligence and machine learning were on just about everyone’s list of hot topics. Countless companies are offering AI and ML solutions, with many of them claim...
28 Feb 201734min
Cloudbleed and what it means to you. Ransomware updates. News from the Moscow treason trials. Coachella Festival breached.
In today's podcast, we hear how Cloudflare suffered from Cloudbleed. The bug's now swatted, but it will take a lot of people some time to clear up their passwords. Spora ransomware's customer service ...
27 Feb 201714min
SHA-1 is broken. Grizzly Steppe and Carbanak. M&A notes. Linux patched. Arrest in Deutsche Telekom hack. The insecurities of connected cars.
SHA-1 is broken, for real. Grizzly Steppe threat actors seem to have a lot in common with the Carbanak gang. Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS. Linux patches an old vulnerability. Reuters says Symantec was...
24 Feb 201721min
Patcher ransomware. Locky, Cryptowall, and Cerber are still active; so is old-fashioned blackmail. NSA keeps the VEP. Reactions to New York State's cyber regs for banks. Observations of BugDrop, and thoughts on cyber war and attribution.
In today's podcast, we hear about how Patcher ransomware is infesting Macs. Locky, Cryptowall, and Cerber are also still out and about in the wild. NSA seems likely to continue its Vulnerabilities Equ...
23 Feb 201715min
Influence operations. A new Mirai version is potentially more dangerous than the old one. Proofs of concept. New York's cyber security regulations for banks. What Verizon will get from Yahoo!
In today's podcast, we hear from Paris that Moscow's not welcome in upcoming French elections. A new version of Mirai is out, spreading through Windows systems. Researchers warn of FTP protocol inject...
22 Feb 201716min
