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Nov 2018
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A quick look at the state of spam. Phish...

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In today’s podcast we hear that Emotet ramped up for Black Friday—beware of the spam. Social engineering and the power grid. Industrial espionage resurfaces as an issue in Sino-American relations. Huawei remains unforgiven in Washington. China’s emerging social credit system. Bottom-up social control in the US: first they came for the dogwalkers. Making a Dutch book on social media. Russia tightens Internet laws. The US Army learns some lessons, in a good way, from Joint Task Force Ares. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI, wondering if we have a cyber skills gap or a shortage of courage. 

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_11_26.html

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