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
Daily & Week in Review: Not all experts agree you should resign yourself to being hacked. The state of fraud, 2016. Ransomware and DDoS updates. The Kremlin gets doxed.
On today's podcast, we hear that ransomware is still with us. A new study of online fraud is out, and one lesson is, it's better to take some, any, precaution than to whistle and hope for the best. Th...
28 Okt 201622min
Exploring Cyber Security Education [Special Edition]
In this CyberWire Podcast Special Edition, we examine the current state of cyber security education, speak to experts in the field, and learn about what it’s going to take to prepare the next generati...
28 Okt 201633min
Daily: DDoS concerns mount—not just Mirai botnets, but LDAP exploitation. Ukrainian hacktivists release emails they say belong to one of Putin's closest advisors. (Moscow says they're fake. Moscow's on its own.)
In today's podcast, we hear more about the IoT worries people are sharing about both industrial systems and consumer-grade products. Iot device recalls continue. Analysts expect there are more, and wo...
27 Okt 201616min
Daily: Youth and cyber make a bad-news-good-news story (it's complicated). Mirai DDoS may be the work of skids. ISIS adjusts its messaging.
In today's podcast, we hear that Friday's Dyn DDoS may have been the work of skids and script kiddies, not high-end Russian spies. A recall of vulnerable IoT devices proceeds. Utilities see the DDoS a...
26 Okt 201616min
Daily: The Mirai botnet DDoS attack, its consequences and attribution, with commentary from various observers.
In today's podcast we hear about some who think that IoT botnets may be best considered an instance of a more general problem with poorly secured endpoints. Good digital hygiene can be good digital ci...
25 Okt 201616min
Daily: Recovering from Friday's IoT-botnet driven Internet outages. Industry notes and news of cyber conflict in East Asia and the Middle East. And US-Russian tension in cyberspace remains high.
In today's podcast we hear about how, while the Internet has recovered from Friday's DDoS attacks on DNS provider Dyn, its users are suffering a significant hangover. No attribution, but the Jester th...
24 Okt 201615min
