CYBER

In just a few taps and clicks, the system, made by a private company, shows where a car has been seen throughout the U.S. Tipped by a private investigator source, Joseph Cox broke the news that a powerful system used by an industry including repossession agents and insurance companies tracks cars across the US. Armed with just a car's plate number, the tool—fed by a network of private cameras spread across the country—provides users a list of all the times that car has been spotted.

Follow Ben Makuch and Joseph Cox on Twitter.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the end of August, researchers at Google dropped a bombshell: they had discovered malicious websites that they said were indiscriminately spreading iPhone malware for years. At certain points the websites were even using zero day exploits; attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities that Apple is not aware of. 

Apple subsequently confirmed what various media reports found: that the malicious sites were particularly geared towards hacking Uighur muslims, many of whom live in Western China under intense surveillance from the government. Apple disputed some details from Google, such as the length of the campaign, but this is still likely the biggest iPhone hack we know about so far.

On this week's episode of CYBER, we talk to Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Joseph Cox about Google's research, and what it means for how governments deploy iPhone malware: it turns out, on a much larger scale than we previously thought.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denz - World Of Hip-Hop Show September 2019

Track Listing:

1. What I Came For - Little Brother - May The Lord Watch

2. The Hulk - Murs, 9th Wonder & The Soul Council - The Iliad Is Dead And The Odyssey Is Over

3. Force Majeure - Kill em All

4. Whoopi - Rapsody - Eve

5. Grey Heaven - Blu & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ground & Water

6. Don't Stop - Mr Keyes Feat.Duust - NY To UK

7. 42nd St. - Kev Brown & J Scienide - Drum Machine Tape Cassette

8. Champion Sound - Showbiz & Milano - Boulevard Author

9. Shark Week - Ras Kass - Soul On Ice 2

10. Camisas - DJ Muggs & Crimeapple - Medallo

11. Market Cap - Tha God Fahim - Synchro

12. Anti Social - Kyo Itachi & Skanks - Unapologetic

13. Nothing - Ronnie Bosh - All People Expect

14. Potent Serum - Ill Conscious & Mz Boom Bap Feat.King Magnetic & DJ Grazzhoppa - Sorcery EP

15. The Scene - Jamal Gasol - No Joy Without Pain 1, 2 & 3

16. True Story - Big Tone & House Shoes - Big Shoes

17. How To Sink A Friendship - The Uhssentials - Everything You Need

18. I'm So High (Remix) - Marco Polo Feat.Sean Price & Rock - The Green

19. Queens Bridge Politics - Nas - The Lost Tapes 2

20. Observation Point - Brock Berrigan - The Scenic Route

Mixed By Denz For Nuwaveradio

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

By most accounts, the war in Yemen is a brutal and lethal tragedy of the modern world that has claimed the lives of thousands of people. 

With the backing of western military industrial power, the Saudi-led coalition has undertaken a relentless bombing campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels that ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his regime from the capital Sanaa in 2015.

Human rights watchers have accused the Saudis and its allies of war-crimes and a string of attacks against civilians. Just this last weekend the International Red Cross said the Saudis had killed over 100 people in a single strike on a detention center. 

And as the kinetic war rolls out IRL, the Yemeni people have also been casualty to a silent war: one that’s online.

On this week’s episode we sit down with Winnona DeSombre, a threat intelligence researcher at RecordedFuture to talk about how cyberwarfare and espionage has been a serious feature in the war in Yemen.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve all heard of high profile hacks, like Stuxnet which basically took out the Iranian nuclear program, or that time when Seth Rogen’s stoner comedy made North Korea really, really pissed off and they hacked Sony.

And the key to all of these hacks is malware, or software specifically and intentionally designed to damage computer systems. 

But one thing some people often ask themselves is: what is malware, exactly? Well, ultimately just some lines of code. On this week’s CYBER we have someone who researches it for a living: malware analyst Tarik Salah of Domain Tools.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine a world where one of our most critical instruments of democracy, voting systems, are connected to the internet where they are potentially vulnerable to hacking.

Well, thanks to the work of Motherboard contributor Kim Zetter, we now know that’s the reality we live in after she broke the story that researchers had found voting systems online, including systems in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida—all well known for being key swing states in presidential elections.

But for years election officials have said our voting systems, used for closely fought Presidential election of 2016 and in 2012 when it was Romney versus Obama, weren’t even on the internet and thus, they said, unhackable.

CYBER recently caught up with Kim to discuss her massive scoop and how Russian troll armies might not be the thing threatening American democracy or scaring the intelligence community tasked with protecting it come 2020. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cyberworks - Cyber Show August 2019

Track Listing:

1. Vetiver - Low Leaf - Baker's Dozen: Low Leaf

2. Sinnerman - Moodymann - Sinner

3. One Word - Donwill - One Word No Space

4. Deviled Eggs - Mndsgn - Snaxx

5. Future Classic - Kev Brown - Delve Into Classical Moog

6. Bronx Skates - Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO II

7. High Roller - Kamaal Williams - The Return

8. Burst - Strip Steve Feat.World Brain - The Grand Ball V.A.

9. Float - Pedro & Jenna Camille - This Is What I’m Going Through

10. Blame - Black Milk - DiVE

11. LA - Djrum - LA

12. Starring Night Session (Art Of Tones Remix) - M-Scape - Starry Night Session EP

13. Lantana - Greg Gow - Paradigm Shift

14. Tears (Crackazat Rework) - HNNY - Magic Touch

15. SMBC - Harry Wolfman - The Ritual EP

16. Cynthonia - Nu Era - The Third Adam

17. Rising Youth - M.ono & Luvless - Rose Cutz Pt. 2

18. Synodic Period - Josh Wink - Soma25

19. Gemini - Grant - The Long Game

20. Feels Like Whatever - Tee Mango Feat.Amp Fiddler - 50 Songs

21. Aquatic Funk - Baldo - Where The Wild Beats Are

22. Robbing Dem Strings I - Kevin Over - Split

23. All Is Well... - Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Back On The Planet

R.I.P. Ras G

Mixed By Denz & Biz For Nuwaveradio

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two years ago, Marcus Hutchins, better known by his hacker name ‘MalwareTech,’ was at the Las Vegas International Airport awaiting his flight back home to the United Kingdom (UK). He was hungover and coming back from Def Con, the biggest hacker conference in the world.

And that’s when the feds came in and nabbed him.

But earlier that same year the 23-year-old security researcher was hailed as a global hero for stopping the spread of the WannaCry ransomware worm, which disabled companies and even paralyzing computer systems in hospitals in the UK. But instead of accolades from the state, he found himself facing an FBI indictment.

The U.S. government accused Hutchins of creating and conspiring to distribute a banking malware called Kronos in 2014, when he was 19. His arrest enthralled the cybersecurity community and set off a legal fight that finally ended just last week. Hutchins, who was potentially facing years in prison, was free and sentenced to time served. 

It has been a two year journey for Hutchins and on this week’s CYBER, Marcy Wheeler, an acclaimed journalist who covers national security, will tell us all about his ordeal and what his case has done to stoke the fears of the FBI within the infosec community.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know you could make money watching Netflix trailers on your phone? Did you know that people have earned close to $2,000 a month programming hundreds of phones to watch Netflix trailers, video game trailers, celebrity gossip shows, and sports? 

But the trick is, no one is really watching. 

This is what’s called phone farming. Just imagine rows upon rows of phones, with fans cooling them that simulate the engagement of a real human. On this week’s episode of CYBER, Motherboard’s Joseph Cox dove into this world by making his own mini phone farm, talking to the real farmers who made the cash creating them to give us the inside story on how this bizarre phenomenon actually works.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.