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Jun 2018
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Ukraine accuses Russia of preparing a cy...

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In today's podcast we hear that Ukraine has warned that Russia is preparing a coordinated attack against Ukrainian financial and energy infrastructure. China appears to be stepping up surveillance of the Tibetan diaspora. Cisco's Talos unit has a free decryptor for Thanatos ransomware. Facebook's self-audit of data usage proves both more difficult and more skeleton-rattling than hoped. Norwegian consumer watchdogs find that Facebook and Google nudge users away from privacy. An alt-coin sting against drug dealers. Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on Malspam, and how it differs from run of the mill spam. Guest is Jaime Blasco from AlienVault on the security implications of using open source tools.  

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