US elections proceeded undisrupted by hacking. Patch Tuesday review. Banking Trojans, Android trigger-malware, and thermostats gone wild.
In today's podcast we look at Patch Tuesday: Microsoft closes thirteen vulnerabilities (five of them "critical"), Adobe fixes Flash Player, and Google addresses Android issues. "Trigger-based" mobile ...
9 Nov 201616min
Daily: Election Day cyber updates. Mirai goes to pieces. Five Eyes and Europol take down dark web souks. Turkey and clamps down on their Internet.
In today's podcast we hear that US authorities are ready for election hacking, but assess the risk as low. (The information operations, however, seem to be another matter.) Flashpoint sees Mirai being...
8 Nov 201616min
Daily: Election Eve cyber threat roundup. Retail bank Tesco stops online banking after wave of fraud.
In today's podcast, we offer an Election Day Eve round-up of current cyber tensions, especially between the US and Russia: influence operations for sure, disruption possibly, vote manipulation maybe (...
7 Nov 201614min
Mirai, "Botnet #14," hits Liberian networks. Anonymous doesn't much care for either jihad or the Man. A new security company forms with acquisition of Cryptzone, Catbird, Easy Solutions, and Brainspace. Election hacking updates.
In today's podcast, we hear about how Liberia has sustained a significant DDoS attack (Mirai is behind it). Linux/Moose is also on the IoT loose. Hospitals in the UK continue to recover from ransomwar...
4 Nov 201622min
Daily: Sources say FBI is confident foreign intelligence services penetrated former Secretary of State's private email server. WikiLeaks says it's not a Russian tool. Notes on industry; notes on cybercrime.
In today's podcast we hear about how fallout from the FBI investigation of former Congressman Wiener continues to drop onto the Clinton campaign. WikiLeaks' Assange says he'll continue to dox, but den...
3 Nov 201616min
Daily: To disclose or not to disclose…in public. A look into the dark web. Chrome and Firefox disallow shaky certificates. Anonymous gets an incomplete. The Shadow Brokers are still after the Wealthy Elite.
In today's podcast, we hear about the Microsoft and Google disagreement over public vulnerability disclosure (with a side of Fancy Bear). We also get some industry reactions to the dispute. Terbium ta...
2 Nov 201616min
Daily: The Shadow Brokers say trick or treat to the Amerikanski. Are free elections like free beer? Google wants faster patching. The state of Mirai.
In today's podcast we hear that the Shadow Brokers are back, and again mangling English like a bad scriptwriter doing Ensign Chekhov fan-fiction. Russian leaders continue to scoff at American election...
1 Nov 201616min
Daily: Halloween special: mummies, lycanthropes, vampires, villagers with pitchforks, and virtual stakes through virtual hearts.
In today's Halloween podcast, we consider post mortems on the October IoT distributed denial-of-service attacks, which suggest there are bigger problems than just factory settings. Recalls of potentia...
31 Okt 201613min
