Daily: Slinging cyber lingo. Bad robots. Pokémon Go's long march.
In today's podcast we hear about some expansive court decisions that may make you uneasy. Chinese spies get into the FDIC, and the victim may have covered it up. Start-ups attract fresh investment. Ne...
14 Juli 201615min
Daily: Patch Tuesday notes. Pokémon Go (of course), ICS security, energy recon, fansmitters.
In today's podcast we go over some of the highlights of this week's patches, including fixes from Microsoft, Abode, Drupal, and Niantic. We discuss the security of the industrial Internet-of-things an...
13 Juli 201616min
Daily: Medical device, record hacks. (Un)welcome new ransomware: Alfa, Ranscam. ISIS online decline?
In today's podcast we hear some reports that ISIS may be losing some social media ground. NATO agrees to increase cyber cooperation. A newly described malware dropper is apparently tailored to work ag...
12 Juli 201613min
Daily: Pokémon Go is out, with troubles in its popular trail. Cybercrime & hacktivist miscellany.
In today's podcast we hear about possible hacks of NATO websites during last week's Alliance meetings. South Asia's scissors-and-paste cyber espionage campaign is surprisingly effective. ISIS and al Q...
11 Juli 201616min
Daily & Week in Review: Classified info--goose sauce, gander sauce. Security industry buoyed by Avast, AVG.
In today’s podcast, we talk through the ramifications of Android encryption issues. Experts consider the implications of D-Link vulnerabilities for IoT security. The Wendy’s paycard breach has gotten ...
8 Juli 201621min
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
