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Buhtrap gets into the spying game. US cyber operations against Iran considered: there are both strategic and Constitutional issues. Election security. Water bills. And again with the WannaCry. Jul 12, 2019

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Buhtrap moves from financial crime to cyber espionage. There may have been as many as three distinct US cyber operations against Iran late last month. The US legislative and executive branches continue to try to sort out Constitutional issues surrounding cyber conflict. The US Intelligence Community tell Congress that there are “active threats” to upcoming elections. One city’s cyber woes will be expressed in water bills. And WannaCry may ride again, if you don’t patch. Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on DNS scanning they’re tracking. Guest is Martha Saunders, President of the University of West Florida, on how her institution is adapting to meet the workforce needs for cyber security professionals.

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Magecart is getting interested in exposed databases. Agent Smith may be in your Android app store. Tracking FinSpy. A contractor gets spearphished. Jul 11, 2019

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GDPR fines and their implications. A reminder about Magecart, and some notes on its recent interest in scanning for unprotected AWS S-3 buckets. Agent Smith (of Guangzhou, not the Matrix) is infesting Android stores with evil twins of legitimate apps. FinSpy is out and about in the wild again. “Daniel Drunz” is the catphish face of a gang that stung a US Government contractor for millions in goods. Justin Harvey from Accenture on the recent GDPR fines. Carole Theriault speaks with Michael Covington from Wandera on the risks facing financial services firms.

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Zoom addresses concerns about call joining and cameras. ICS vulnerabilities addressed. Patch Tuesday notes. Tracing a disinformation campaign. Jul 10, 2019

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Zoom agrees to change what it still sort of regards as a feature and not a bug. Industrial control system vulnerabilities are reported and patched. Microsoft issues seventy-seven fixes on Patch Tuesday. Adobe has a relatively light month for patches. Marriott is hit with a large fine from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office. An investigative report traces disinformation about a 2016 Washington murder to Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service. Craig Williams from Cisco Talos with info on the Spelevo exploit kit. Tamika Smith speaks with Myke Lyons, CISO for Collibra, on new industry regulations based on GDPR.

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Security issues with Zoom for Macs. Astaroth fileless malware reported in Brazil. GoBotKR distributed by torrent. ICO hits British Airways with a record fine. State attacks and state defenses. Jul 09, 2019

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Zoom user security appears to have been sacrificed on the altar of user experience. The fileless Astaroth Trojan is again in circulation, mostly, for now, in Brazil. Torrents are distributing the GoBot2 backdoor. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office clobbers British Airways with a record fine under GDPR, probably to encourage all the rest of us. Croatian government offices are spearphished. Iran says it’s now got an attack-proof comms system. And NSA’s IG reports. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on security issues with D-Link routers. Guest is Martin Mckeay from Akamai on their most recent State of the Internet report.

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Another ransomware victim pays extortionists. Business email compromise. Government impostor scams. ShadowBrokers still airborne. Exploit supply chain. Silence suspected in bank heists. Jul 08, 2019

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Another ransomware victim pays up. Privilege escalation comes to ransomware. Vendor impersonation scams hit cities, and government impersonation scams hit citizens: be wary of both. Former NSA contractor Hal Martin will be sentenced later this month, with suspected connections with the ShadowBrokers still unresolved. An exploit supply chain is described. The Silence gang is suspected in Bangladeshi bank heists. And a bad message can brick a phone. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on privacy concerns with a shared bar patron database. Guest is Derek E. Weeks from Sonotype on supply chain security.

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Warnings of Outlook exploitation, with a possible Iranian connection. GPS jamming in the Eastern Med. Satellite vulnerabilities. 505 errors. TA505’s new tactics. Content moderation updates. Jul 03, 2019

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US Cyber Command warns that an Outlook vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. Other sources see a connection with Iran. GPS signals are being jammed near Tel Aviv, and Russian electronic activity in Syria is suspected as the cause. A look at the consequences of satellite cyber vulnerabilities. The TA505 gang changes some of its tactics. Yesterday’s brief Internet outages are traced to a Cloudflare glitch. Facebook and YouTube continue to grapple with content moderation. Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on Emotet’s C2 behavior. Guest is Avital Grushcovski from Source Defense on the risk posed by third party web site tools.

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US-Iranian tension expressed in cyberspace. OceanLotus and Ratsnif. Ransomware in Georgia, again. Going low-tech to protect the grid. Magecart update. Cryptowars and agency equities. Jul 02, 2019

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Tensions between the US and Iran are likely to find further expression in cyberspace. OceanLotus’s Ratsnif kit isn’t up to the threat actors normally high standards of coding, but it’s plenty good enough. Cyberattacks in the states of Florida and Georgia. Utilities are urged to go lower tech where possible. Magecart skimmer “Inter” is being hawked on the dark web. And no, they haven’t videoed you using EternalBlue: just dump that email. Johannes Ullrich from the SANS Technology Institute and the ISC Stormcast podcast on Weblogic exploits. Guest is Nick Jovanovic from Thales on cloud security in the federal space.

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Huawei spits the hook? CISA warns about the risk of Iranian cyberattack. Power grid security. Cryptocurrency and fraud. Content moderation. Senators like Hack the Pentagon. Jul 01, 2019

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Huawei gets to buy some products from US companies, again. CISA reiterates warnings about the risk of cyberattack from Iran. Considerations about power grid security. Cryptocurrencies draw criminals, and some of the scammers are looking ahead. Australia and New Zealand will conduct a simulation to study ways of removing “abhorrent content” from the Web. The Senate likes Hack the Pentagon. And tech enthusiasm or voyeurism? You decide. Justin Harvey from Accenture on ways attackers are bypassing 2-factor authentication on mobile devices. Guest is Gretel Egan from Proofpoint on the shift toward human-centric security.

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Giving everyone a stake in the success of Open Source implementation. [Research Saturday] Jun 29, 2019

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Synopsys recently published the 2019 edition of their Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) Report, providing an in-depth look at the state of open source security, compliance, and code quality risk in commercial software.

Tim Mackey is principal security strategist within the Synopsys Cyber Research Center, and he joins us to share their findings.

The research can be found here:

https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/resources/analyst-reports/2019-open-source-security-risk-analysis.html

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Regin in Yandex? Golang is out and busy. So is the ShadowGate crew. The ICO wants an explanation from the Metropolitan Police. Trackers in news sites. Phishing those who seek “Verification.” Jun 28, 2019

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Yandex says it was hacked with Regin spyware. The Golang cryptominer is spreading, again. And the ShadowGate ransomware crew is newly active with a dangerous drive-by. Three data exposures are reported. London’s Metropolitan Police are in trouble with the Information Commissioner’s Office. A look as tracker behavior. The Verified Badge as a phishing lure. And congratulations to a Loeb Award winner. Micahel Sechrist from BAH on Deep Fakes and data integrity. Deloitte’s new head of cyber Deborah Golden shares her leadership philosophy.

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