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The Labor Department said today that 206,000 new jobs were created in June and the May jobs number was revised down; wages rose 0.3% last month; stocks, bonds and the British pound all rose today after the Labour Party’s resounding victory; Saks Fifth Avenue is buying Neiman Marc ... Show More

Markets hit new highs; Fed minutes show a wait and see approach to rate cuts; Labor market shows more signs of slowing; Skydance-Paramount deal back on. 

A record 71 million expected to travel during holiday period, AAA forecasts; continuing claims continue to climb; trade deficit widened in May; auto sales were sluggish in May. 

In an unusual lapse, Microsoft briefly left a Bing backend server exposed online--now fixed. Sources say the CIA has concluded that Russian President Putin is personally involved in setting the direction of operations designed to influence the US elections, The deal to spin out T ... Show More

In today’s podcast we give a short update on Black Hat before turning to developments in Syria and Iran. Tension between the US and Russia mounts over alleged Russian hacks of US political campaign networks and more recently alleged US spyware operations in Russian enterprises. I ... Show More

China accuses the US of installing backdoors in a Wuhan lab. NetScaler backdoors are found. A Phishing scam targets executives. LinkedIn sees a surge in account hijacking. Raccoon Stealer gets an update. Cryptocurrency recovery scams. We kick off our new Learning Layer segment wi ... Show More

Chinese-backed hackers are infiltrating computer systems by compromising routers. Some security researchers say that modern GPUs can steal pixels right off a web site. And Microsoft encounters yet more resistance regarding its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.See omnystudio.com ... Show More

Chinese espionage groups target Malaysian officials, and two more Japanese defense contractors say they were breached, also by China. Google patches Android problems, including an unusual Bluetooth bug. Google also expels apps that wanted unreasonable permissions from the Play st ... Show More

Alleged Russian influence operations described by US intelligence services. “Ghostwriter” targets the Baltic region with anti-NATO false narratives. Chinese intelligence is said to have compromised Vatican networks. Loss of customer PII seems the costliest kind of data breach. VP ... Show More

Adversary nations are using ClickFix in cyber espionage campaigns. Japan’s Financial Services Agency issues an urgent warning after hundreds of millions in unauthorized trades. The critical Erlang/OTP’s SSH vulnerability now has public exploits. A flawed rollout of a new Microsof ... Show More

Microsoft identifies and disrupts Russian cyberespionage activity. An update on RedAlpha. An evil PLC proof-of-concept shows how programmable logic controllers could be "weaponized." Ben Yelin has an update on right to repair. Our guest is Arthur Lozinski of Oomnitza with a look ... Show More

Iran’s wiper attacks may have been posing as criminal gang capers. CISA issues an alert on the USAID Constant Contact credential compromise. European governments express concern over reports of US surveillance (enabled, allegedly, by Danish organizations). Epsilon Red ransomware ... Show More