Daily & Week in Review: Crypto wars update, story stocks, AI, encryption, and the usual crime.
In today's podcast, we discuss the SWIFT transfer issues now under investigation in a dozen more banks. SWIFT announces a five-point security strategy. Attacks on the private sector are seen as having...
27 Maj 201621min
Daily: Ransomware threats. Industry (mostly good) news. US State Department IG reports on email.
In today's podcast we hear about security in international banking, some developments in the world of malware, and how presidential impersonation and a big loss cost a CEO his job. Analysts like some ...
26 Maj 201614min
Daily: Ransomware & DDoS combining. Malicious USB chargers. Cyber ops aren't 'bombs?
In today's podcast, we hear about the current state of ransomware, why criminals like it, and what can be done about it. Keyloggers are being distributed by malicious USB charging devices. Blue Coat m...
25 Maj 201612min
Daily: Good guy update: SWIFT. Bad guy update: Turla, CryptXXX, DMA Locker, Flash 0-day... Bonus: Scunthorpe Problem.
In today's podcast, we hear about Turla's return, this time in an espionage campaign against Switzerland's RUAG. The Panama Papers and other hacks prompt reiteration of lots of good, if familiar advic...
24 Maj 201614min
Daily: SWIFT seeks better security, what business wants from (US, UK) government, fast exploits.
In today's podcast, we hear about attempts by SWIFT to work toward upgraded security with clients. Japan sustains a coordinated looting of ATMs (to the tune of ¥1.44 billion). Operation Ke3chang retur...
23 Maj 201614min
Daily & Week in Review: TeslaCrypt says "sorry, here's the key." 50-cent-ers troll China.
In today's podcast, we follow moves to upgrade US Cyber Command to a Unified Combatant Command. We follow developments in Operation Groundbait, Phineas Phisher's latest, and the discovery of China's 5...
20 Maj 201621min
Daily: Cyber-chumming the Donbas. Cisco surprises (in a good way).
In today's podcast, we learn that the LinkedIn breach is the same old one from 2012, only now two orders of magnitude larger than thought. ESET describes a cyber surveillance campaign, Operation Groun...
19 Maj 201612min
Daily: LinkedIn may have been breached. Malicious apps, a new Skimmer, and honor among thieves.
In today's podcast we discuss a breaking story about what's potentially a very large breach at LinkedIn. Banks' interactions with SWIFT (not SWIFT itself, necessarily) concern observers. Malware and s...
18 Maj 201614min
