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In today's podcast, we hear more about the IoT worries people are sharing about both industrial systems and consumer-grade products. Iot device recalls continue. Analysts expect there are more, and worse, DDoS attacks to come. Cyber espionage surfaces again in the Middle East. Yisroel Mirsky from Ben-Gurion University on machine learning research. Thomas Pore from Plixer on the Mirai botnet source code. And what's sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander. Or so we hear, at least with doxing.

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In today's podcast, we hear that Friday's Dyn DDoS may have been the work of skids and script kiddies, not high-end Russian spies. A recall of vulnerable IoT devices proceeds. Utilities see the DDoS attacks as a warning shot—they should maybe start by getting rid of all those pagers? ISIS tweaks its online messaging to point out that the Caliphate is enduring a divinely ordained period of trial. CloudFanta malware harvests credentials via a cloud storage app. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs weighs in on credit card fraud in the dark web. Edward Hammersla from Forcepoint reviews their study of Millennials in the federal workplace. And, fellow youths, there's some bad news and some good news about cyber

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In today's podcast we hear about some who think that IoT botnets may be best considered an instance of a more general problem with poorly secured endpoints. Good digital hygiene can be good digital citizenship. IoT device recalls follow the DDoS against Dyn. Attribution of the attacks remains up in the air—Clapper looks at "multinational hackers, Jester looks at Russia (and Russia looks at Jester and sees Vice President Biden), and yes, John McAfee is looking at North Korea. Joe Carrigan from The Johns Hopkins University's Information Security Institute inventories IoT devices, and Malcolm Harkins from Cylance shares his thoughts on taking risks. 

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In today's podcast we hear about how, while the Internet has recovered from Friday's DDoS attacks on DNS provider Dyn, its users are suffering a significant hangover. No attribution, but the Jester thinks he's (she's? they're) on the case. Observers see significant potential for more damaging IoT-based attacks to come. Virginia Tech's Dr. Charles Clancy weighs in on quantum computers and encryption. And Hal Martin's lawyer adumbrates his client's defense in the case of the Top Secret Collector's Collection of Top Secret documents.

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In today's podcast we follow the developing story of intermittent DDoS attacks affecting Internet sites throughout the US East Coast. Hotspot vigilantes try to get Julian Assange reconnected inside Ecuador's London embassy. More election documents appear in WikiLeaks. Russia offers to monitor US elections. NSA's Director talks about labor force issues. The University of Maryland's Jonathan Katz explains an update to a key encryption component of the internet. Guest Kevin Green from DHS describes his work on software assurance programs. And some advice from the Cyber Security Hall of Fame: You want security, convenience, and freedom? Pick two.

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In today's podcast we hear about Czech authorities' arrest of a Russian man in connection with 2012's LinkedIn hack. US response to Russian election hacking is still under preparation. IoT botnets proliferate as Mirai source code spreads through the criminal underground. Some 200 strains of ransomware are reported in the wild. Financial regulators push greater security. Muddy Waters and St. Jude continue their dispute over medical device vulnerabilities. Ran Yahalom from Ben-Gurion University discusses a group of vulnerabilities known as Bad USB. Tom Sadowski from the University of Maryland system discusses CyberMaryland and the role of the University System. 

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In today's podcast, we hear that Ecuador has told the world they cut Assange's Internet connection (but will continue his asylum), and that they did so on their own. Russia Today remains predictably unconvinced. WikiLeaks shows no signs of stopping election doxing. The US may be considering a campaign of counter-embarrassment as its response to Russian information operations. Fallout from the Yahoo! breach continues. London banks are hit with ransomware. More IoT botnets form from Mirai code. Terbium's Emily Wilson explains the weaponization of intel. Venafi's Kevin Bocek describes what their look at Yahoo!'s encryption revealed. And we take a quick look at the blockchain.

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In today's podcast we hear the current skinny on hacking the US elections. WikiLeaks' Assange lives, but he seems to be offline, and RT gets dumped by its British bank. The US continues to make noises about retaliating against Russian hackers. Russia sheds crocodile tweets over American gasconade. A retired general pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. The Shadow Brokers say, really, they want someone to bid, or else. Markus Rauschecker from the University of MD Center for Health and Homeland Security explains a recent ruling involving kids' privacy online. Netskope's Ravi Balupari describes the latest behaviors of the Virlock ransomware. Level 3 keeps score on the Mirai botnet. And, fellow youths, you may after all be the weakest link.

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In today's podcast we hear about Pakistani phishing in the Indian Army's pond. ISIS loses prophetically important town of Dabiq, and must adjust its messaging accordingly. WikiLeaks continues to poke at the Clinton campaign. Fancy Bear is again in the spotlight as the US preps a response to Russian election hacking. IoT malware—Mirai and LuaBot—affects networking gear. Dyre's masters are back and working on a new banking Trojan. Robert Lee from Dragos Security offers his opinion on recently nuclear power plant breach revelations. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Technology Labs explains new research on semantic technology for security analytucs. And what, exactly, does EvilTwin think he, she, or they might be up to?

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In today's podcast we follow the continuing story of election hacks, and the varying but convergent motives behind them. We get a side helping of good government advice from Mr. Putin. (Thanks, Vlad!) Al Qaeda tries to reach the Millennial jihadist market with ISIS-like information operations. The Internet-of-Things enhances its reputation as an Internet-of-Trouble. Cyber stocks see turbulence as downbeat guidance spooks speculators. Pork Explosion isn't a movie from the Seventies—it's an Android backdoor. The Johns Hopkins University's Joe Carrigan responds to a listener inquiry about Amazon's recent password resets. DDoS expert Dave Larson from Corero Network Security shares his perspective on recent attacks. And please don't use a misspelled app to take selfies.

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