CyberWire Daily

3271 Episodes

1. A quick look at Big Tech’s antitrust testimony. BootHole may be tough to patch. Fake COVID contact tracers. Netwalker warning. And Chinese espionage against the Vatican and the United Kingdom.

   Published: 7/30/2020
2. Alleged Russian disinformation campaigns. Beijing’s cyberespionage hits the Vatican. Costly PII losses. VPNs and OT security. Big Tech’s day with Congress. Online bar exams. Snooping for the Saudis.

   Published: 7/29/2020
3. Data breaches and responsibility. Where do you get a decryptor for WastedLocker? Third-party risk. Misconfigured databases. Follow-up on the Twitter hack.

   Published: 7/28/2020
4. Vigilante action against Emotet. Third-party risks and data breaches. Cerberus is for sale. And WastedLocker ransomware and the fortunes of crime.

   Published: 7/27/2020
5. No matter the statistic, even if against the odds, focus on what you want. [Career Notes]

   Published: 7/26/2020
6. It was only a matter of time. [Research Saturday]

   Published: 7/25/2020
7. A warning for US critical infrastructure operators. Blackbaud extortion and data breach update. Who’s got the keys to Twitter? Sino-American cyber tensions.

   Published: 7/24/2020
8. Twitter: hackers got a few accounts’ DMs. French policy toward Huawei hardens. Crooks against British sport. You and your boss should talk more.

   Published: 7/23/2020
9. Meowing exposed databases. US indicts two Chinese nationals for hacking, and orders China to close its Houston consulate.

   Published: 7/22/2020
10. Parliament gets its report on Russian hacking. A look at the cyber criminal economy. Russia says it has no hackers.

    Published: 7/21/2020
11. Following the spoor of the Twitter hackers, a couple of whom seem to be talking to the press. Marketing databases and intelligence collection. TikTok ban? Hacking biomedical research.

    Published: 7/20/2020
12. Have to be able to communicate to everybody. [Career Notes]

    Published: 7/19/2020
13. Every time we get smarter, the bad guy changes something. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 7/18/2020
14. High-grade grifter. Twitter’s disinformation potential. Hacking vaccine research and doxing trade talks. What Iran’s hackers are up to. And CISA says, for heaven’s sake, patch already.

    Published: 7/17/2020
15. Twitter takes down verified accounts after major hack (most service now restored). Russian influence operations. Cozy Bear’s biomedical intelligence collection. Spearphishing in Hong Kong.

    Published: 7/16/2020
16. A 2018 Presidential finding authorized the CIA to conduct a broad range of offensive cyber ops. Data breaches and ransomware incidents. Sloppy VPNs. SEC warns, and China woofs.

    Published: 7/15/2020
17. Huawei to be closed out of UK’s 5G infrastructure. Spyware, ransomware, and botnets. The odd case of Data Viper. SAP has a major patch out.

    Published: 7/14/2020
18. Presidential authorization for US Cyber Command action. DPRK hacking and internal regime dynamics. TrickBot’s developers. Cybercriminals in the dock.

    Published: 7/13/2020
19. Turn challenges into opportunities. [Career Notes]

    Published: 7/12/2020
20. Are you running what you think you're running? [Research Saturday]

    Published: 7/11/2020