Russian indicted in US midterm election influence conspiracy case. Styles and goals of info ops. Cyber deterrence. DPRK petty crime. Alt-coin scammer. Spy chip story remains unconfirmed, unretracted.

In today's podcast we hear that the US has indicted a Russian accountant for conspiring to influence US midterm elections. Different nations have different styles of information operations because they have different goals. Technology shifts, but underlying principles of propaganda remain. The EU barks cyber deterrence but doesn't bite, yet. North Korea's petty cyber crime wave. A scammer is after alt-coin enthusiasts. And there's neither confirmation nor retraction of Bloomberg's spy-chip story. Joe Carrigan from the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute joins us to discuss network segmentation.

For links to all of today's stories, visit https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/October/CyberWire_2018_10_22.html