Symantec Cyber Security Brief Podcast

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Ticketmaster breach, insider attacks, the issue of legacy systems in businesses, and is encrypted ransomware a new trend? Jun 28, 2018

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In this week’s essential cyber security news round-up, we discuss the recent data breach at Ticketmaster, and also look at encrypted ransomware and wonder whether it's set to become a new trend. Also, after news broke last week that an employee at Tesla had been caught changing code and passing sensitive company information to third parties, we discuss the dangers of insider threats for business, and we also look at the reasons why, in a recent survey, almost 90 percent of UK businesses admitted to running legacy systems in order to keep data accessible.

New Symantec research on the Thrip cyber espionage group, BEC scammers, and coinminers in court in Japan Jun 21, 2018

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We discuss a major law enforcement operation against Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers, an interesting court case in Japan regarding the legality of browser-based coinmining, and we also talk to Jon Di Maggio, the Symantec investigator responsible for our latest research into the cyber espionage group Thrip.