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Nov 2019
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Ransomware in Spain. Pegasus in India. T...

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Ransomware hits Spanish companies. Pegasus continues to excite controversy in India. TikTok applies for Big Tech’s good-citizen club, but has apparently so far been blackballed. Booz Allen offers nine predictions for 2020: balkanization, supply chain threats, automotive data theft, war-droning, satellite hacks, tougher attribution, election interference, missiles against malware, and Olympic interference. And good dogs go after bad guys’ data storage devices. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on AT&T’s claims that they cannot be sued for selling location data to bounty hunters.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/November/CyberWire_2019_11_05.html 

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