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Yesterday

Temporary fix for Section 702.

The House extends Section 702, for now. Mythos raises fresh cyber risk concerns. CISA warns of reduced capacity. ZionSiphon targets Israeli water systems. Operation PowerOFF hits DDoS-for-hire networks. CISA flags an actively exploited ActiveMQ flaw. WordPress plugin supply chain ... Show More

35m 35s

Apr 16

Too many flaws, not enough time.

NIST struggles with an NVD backlog. Cisco and Splunk ship critical patches. Researchers flag a systemic flaw in Anthropic’s MCP. ShinyHunters leak 13.5 million McGraw Hill accounts. Cargo theft goes cyber. A Tennessee hospital breach hits 337,000 patients. Two Americans are sente ... Show More

31m 24s

Apr 15

A heavy patch Tuesday lands.

Patch Tuesday. CISA directs furloughed employees back to work. Experts warn Anthropic’s Glasswing signals a new era of AI-driven vulnerability discovery. Federal prosecutors crack down on chip smuggling. Sweden says a pro-Russian cyber group attempted to disrupt power plant opera ... Show More

26m 28s

Jul 2023

Barking up the wrong Facebook page.

Mallory Sofastaii, consumer investigative reporter from WMAR TV, is discussing animal rescue organizations on Facebook pages being taken over by hackers. Listener George writes in to share how his bank is not doing enough to protect against fraud going on. Dave's story follows sc ... Show More

54m 52s

Mar 2023

Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker

A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a maze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden's commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Gra ... Show More

47m 33s

Jul 2023

Charl van der Walt on Cyber Extortion

<p>What are the latest trends in the ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem? Since at least May 27, the CL0P ransomware gang has been exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability to exfiltrate data from financial services organizations, energy corporations, government agencies, and e ... Show More

53m 46s

Feb 2023

I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin

<p>If you’ve committed any internet crimes lately, you probably shouldn’t have paid for them with Bitcoin. While many crypto-evangelists have long thought of digital currency as a means of buying legal and illicit goods on the web with total anonymity, the fact is that nearly all ... Show More

27m 28s

Mar 2022

Tech News: Tech Strikes Back at Russia

The tech world has clamped down on Russia in the wake of the country's invasion of Ukraine. A cryptocurrency exchange founder is going to stand trial on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. And we say farewell to a man who co-developed Ethernet technology. Learn more about ... Show More

32 m

Oct 2019

Thu. 10/24 - Is TikTok A “National Security Risk?”

Is TikTok a national security risk? Inquiring Senators want to know. Earnings running the gamut from bad to surprisingly good from Twitter, Amazon and Tesla. And to paraphrase an old saw: if a voicemail system goes down how would anyone even notice? Sponsors: Mealime LegalForc ... Show More

17m 18s

Apr 2023

Mon. 04/10 - Would You Believe Me If I Told You Elon Changed His Mind?

Twitter has stopped throttling tweets with Substack links in them, but only after Elon Musk denied they were ever blocked. About 270 US Apple Stores have held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks. A New York Times article about the environmental and econo ... Show More

21m 15s

RATs and the long game. New ransomware, ...