Malicious Life

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EP61: Prying Eyes Nov 12, 2019

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Roughly 600,000 laptops are lost every year in US airports alone: some reports say a laptop is stolen every minute. How hard is it to hack into a stolen laptop? "Hackable?", McAfee's Cyber Security podcast, investigates. Check out their website: https://hackablepodcast.com/.

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EP60: ML B-Side: Lodrian Cherne On Stalkerware Nov 08, 2019

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In this out-of-band episode, we're bringing you the full interview with Lodrina Cherne, a Digital Forensics Expert, on Spyware : what is it, how it works, who sells it, and how you can avoid it yourself.

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EP59: Gozi, Part 1: The Rise of Malware-as-a-Service Oct 31, 2019

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Nikita Kuzmin could have been a whiz programmer or a CEO of a successful startup. But as a teen in Moscow, he fell in with the wrong crowd, and his entrepreneurial skills found a different path: Gozi, the oddest and most brilliant malware operation ever conceived to that point in time.

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EP58: How is Spyware Legal? Oct 17, 2019

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Today's Cyber Stalkers have free access to almost government-grade spyware software with which they can terrorize their victims. Who's enabling the commercial spyware market?

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EP57: Listeners Survey Special Oct 10, 2019

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Ran and Eliad Kimhy, one of the show's top producers, discuss the recent Listener's Survey results: what do like and dislike about the show, ideas you gave us for future improvements - and what do our listeners think about Ran's accent?...

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EP56: Operation Aurora, Part 2 Sep 26, 2019

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Google, it turned out, was only one of 35 major US corporations hit in Aurora. Was is an espionage campaign, or could it be that it all began with one top ranking Chinese official who googled his own name - and wasn't happy with the search results?...

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EP55: Operation Aurora, Part 1 Sep 12, 2019

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In January 2010, Google revealed in its blog that it was hacked. This attack, since known as Operation Aurora, is attributed to China. In this series of episodes, we'll expose the complicated and often turbulent relationship between the world's largest internet company, and the world's most populated nation.

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Responding to a Cyber Attack with Missiles Aug 29, 2019

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Should governments responde to cyber attack with deadly force? Senior researcher Mikko Hypponen and Prof. Itzik Ben Israel (Ret. General, IDF R&D) discuss this sensative question.

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EP53: Are Ad Blockers Malicious? Aug 15, 2019

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Ad Blockers, such as AdBlock Plus, provide an important service to users who find web ads annoying, creepy and sometimes even dangerous. In recent years, how ever, the business models adopted by some blockers present us with a moral dilemma.

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ML_Conficker Jul 18, 2019

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Can a malware be *too* successful? This is the story of Conficker, one of the most advanced worms in history - and how its success led to its ultimate failure.

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