AI oversight arrives at the White House. A Cyber Force gains momentum. Critical infrastructure comes under cyberattack. Acer faces zero-day trouble. A stock exchange executive gets spied on for months. HTTP/2 Bomb threatens web servers. Quantum’s classical side grows bigger. Britain's military chooses Starshield. Spain’s infamous hacker gets sentenced. Our g ... Show More
May 31
CyberWire Daily at 10: The evolution of ransomware. [Special Edition]
In this special edition of CyberWire Daily’s 10th anniversary series, N2K CyberWire's Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner consider the tactics, trends, and turning points that shaped the threat landscape over the last decade of ransomware. Ransomware has evolved from small-scale exto ... Show More
22m 44s
Oct 2024
FBI suspects China-linked hackers accessed officials’ call logs and SMS messages, Brazil sues Meta and TikTok, and Sony pulled the plug on Concord
The FBI suspects China-linked hackers accessed officials’ call logs and SMS messages, Brazil sues Meta and TikTok for not protecting minors, and Sony pulled the plug on Concord and shut down Firewalk Studios. It's Wednesday, October 30th and this is Engadget News.
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9m 39s
Oct 2025
The $25M Zoom Call: How Deepfakes Are Rewriting the Rules of Trust, Featuring KnowBe4's Erich Kron
<p>A Hong Kong employee sits through what seems like a routine video call with colleagues and the CFO. Everything looks normal. Then comes the urgent wire transfer request. $25 million later, the horrifying truth emerges: every face on that call was fake, generated by AI.</p>
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38m 18s
May 2024
How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
There is a constant arms race between law enforcement and criminals, especially when it comes to technology. For years, law enforcement has been frustrated with encrypted messaging apps, like Signal and Telegram. And law enforcement has been even more frustrated by encrypted phon ... Show More
23m 59s
Apr 2023
ICYMI: WTH is Tik Tok So Dangerous? Klon Kitchen on How the Chinese Communist Party is Reading Your Keystrokes and Collecting Your Data
It’s spring break, and your kids might have more time on their hands… so we are revisiting one of our best and increasingly relevant episodes.Over a third of Americans spend hours every day on an app that directly feeds their data to the Chinese government. TikTok, owned by Chine ... Show More
51m 56s
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start off w ... Show More
