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Sep 2018
19m 59s

Elections and information operations, bu...

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In today's podcast, we hear about foreign information operations surrounding elections in Israel and Sweden. Domestic information operations surround local elections in Russia. Apple purges questionable security apps from its store. Are the Silence cyber criminals security industry veterans? British Airways continues to recover from its data breach. What a "cyber moonshot" might actually mean. And ProtonMail says the coppers have collared an Apophis Squad member. Zulfikar Ramzan from RSA with a reality check on blockchain hype . Guest is Yehuda Lindell from Unbound Tech on the Foreshadow vulnerability. 

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/September/CyberWire_2018_09_10.html

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