Daily: Blockchains and their uses. Pirrit adware attribution. Avast buys AVG for $1.3B.
In today's podcast we hear about Cymmetria's discovery of a major threat actor in South Asia, Patchwork, which assembles attack code by cutting and pasting from the Internet. HummingBad adware infests...
7 Juli 201616min
Daily: Cybercrime campaigns. States hope ISIS overplayed its violent hand. No indictment of Clinton over email.
In today's podcast we hear about Yingmob's HummingBad Android malware, what it's up to and where it might be headed. We also learn about Eleanor, a Mac OS-X backdoor masquerading as a document convers...
6 Juli 201613min
Daily: Statecraft, spycraft, & warcraft: inspiration, cells, & espionage. Cybercrime & punishment.
In today's podcast we look at ISIS's shifting tactics in cyberspace, and the civilized world's response to them. OurMine continues to market its "services" by compromising celebrity accounts through r...
5 Juli 201617min
Daily & Week in Review: Conficker worms into medical IoT. Talking key management, DevOps. NERC standards take effect.
In today's podcast we discuss Internet-of-things threats, not only botnets assembled from compromised security cameras, but also medical device hacking (with Conficker) as a way of stealing patient in...
1 Juli 201620min
Daily: Hacktivism or denial-&-deception? (Smart money's on D&D.) LizardStressor herds CCTV bots.
In today's podcast we hear about DarkOverlord and the data he's selling online. Guccifer 2.0 returns to blogging, and says he's not working for the Russians, but CrowdStrike, ThreatConnect, and Secure...
30 Juni 201614min
Daily: Istanbul bombings prompt global intel collection re-look. Cyber threats to transportation.
In today's podcast, we note that in the wake of the ISIS bombings in Istanbul, security services around the world are looking for online intelligence that might help prevent future terror attacks. Ano...
29 Juni 201616min
Daily: Not interested in Fancy Bear? Fancy Bear's interested in you. No dark-grey hats, please.
In today's podcast we get an update on the Russian threat group that hit the DNC. A hacker claims to have nine million health insurance records for sale on the dark web. Too many medical devices are v...
28 Juni 201616min
Daily: Ransomware: MIRCOP, Cerber, CryptXXX, Bart, TeslaCrypt (& the #95 car). Intel selling security unit?
In today's podcast we offer a quick survey of the vast and spreading Ransomware landscape. (And talk about some other bits of cybercrime as well, but if Willie Sutton were alive today, and had an Inte...
27 Juni 201613min
