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May 2020
21m 51s

Bear hunt in the Bundestag. Kaiji botnet...

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A pretty Fancy Bear hunt in Germany. A new IoT botnet surfaces. Cryptojackers exploit a Salt bug. Bribing an insider as a way to get personal data. The UK’s NCSC and the US CISA issue a joint warning about campaigns directed against institutions working on a response to COVID-19. Britain’s contact tracing app starts its trial on the Isle of Wight. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on AI inventions and their pending patents, our guest is Matt Glenn from Illumio on why companies should break up with their firewalls. And don’t get puppy scammed--you’re looking for wags in all the wrong places.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/May/CyberWire_2020_05_05.html

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