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Mar 2020
21m 41s

Caution in the Play store. EU power cons...

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Google removes from the Play store an app nominally designed to track COVID-19 infections. An EU power distribution consortium says its business systems were hacked. An assessment of Cablegate has been declassified. Ex-CIA employee Schulte’s trial for disclosing classified information ends in a hung jury. The alleged proprietor of a criminal market is arrested. Crooks hack rival crooks. More US primaries are held today. And a case of identity theft in North Carolina. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS with updates on ClearView AI, guest is Kathleen Kuczma from Recorded Future on 2019 Top Vulnerabilities List.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/March/CyberWire_2020_03_10.html

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