CyberWire Daily

Baltic elves versus Russian trolls. Pakistan considers its cyber strategy. Investigation continues into the Bangladesh Bank hack. More hackers are interested in going after OS kernels. Apple and the Department of Justice are poised for this week's hearings. And the University of Maryland's Markus Rauschecker tells us what it means to "hack the Pentagon."

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In this podcast, we look back at how information operations are going with respect to ISIS. We follow the current state of play in the dispute between Apple and the Department of Justice over unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino jihadists. In cyber crime, bank heists succeed and (sometimes) fail, and some familiar threat names make their return. Cyber industry observers look at valuations, and at M&A activity. Brett Hansen from Dell talks with us about their latest study of the state of cyber security.

More on Buhtrap and its sophisticated spearphishing of Russian banks. There are more reasons (as if they were needed) not to jailbreak your iPhones and iPads. Also, stay away from "adult" apps on your Android. And we hear from the University of Maryland's Ben Yelin, who brings us up to date on the lingering fallout of the Snowden leaks.

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Daily: Spies & crooks, together again. Artful spearphishers will eventually learn to proofread. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs explains how decoy apps are helping secure mobile devices.

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Crypto wars updates. Iran vs. US in cyberspace. Big Angler malvertising campaign. CyberWire editor John Petrik joins us to discuss the expected indictment of Iranian hackers by the US government. Chris Webber from Centrify shares tips for multi-factor authentication.

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Daily: Naming & shaming Iran's hackers? Palo Alto spots "Digital Quartermaster." Team Apple bigger than Team DoJ. Plus, Jonathan Katz from the Maryland Cyber Security Center responds to Richard Clarke's NPR interview. Are claims of NSA's capabilities grounded in reality?

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Daily: ISIS security breaches threaten narrative. Cyber industry issues. Updates on the crypto wars. Plus, Joe Carrigan from Johns Hopkins University's Information Security Institute shares an overview of Phishing scams.

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Apple and the Department of Justice face off in court, very different views of what's at stake in unlocking an iPhone. The US Congress considers legislation governing decryption and critical infrastructure protection. Ransomware and DDoS dominate cyber crime. Industry observers wonder if patching has gotten out of hand.

Plus, Jonathan Katz from the University of Maryland on free online cyber courses, Paul Kurtz from TruStar on collaboration and information sharing, and Branko Primetica from eGlobalTech on Big Data.

The US is said ready to indict Iranian operators for 2013's hack a Rye, NY dam. ISIS has an insider threat problem—disgruntled employees. Adobe and Oracle patch Flash and Java. The FCC and FTC stay busy with cyber regulation. The court fight between Apple and the US Department of Justice gets uglier. Markus Rauschecker from the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security shares his views on the role of the FTC in cyber enforcement, and Tim Matthews from Imperva gives us some warning about the IoT.

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RSA in an international conference, with attendees and exhibitors from around the world.

Andy Williams is the UK Cyber Envoy. His mission at RSA was to spread the word about his nation’s significant cyber capabilities, to help facilitate business relationships with companies in the US, and to promote the technologies that UK companies were showing at the conference.

Telesoft Technologies is one of those companies, and Matthew George is their CTO. He’ll tell us about their effort to bring the speed of FPGA’s to the market. 

And finally, we’ll hear from Ezequiel Gutesman, Director of Research at Onapsis Research Labs. He’ll share the findings from a Poneman report on security within German software giants SAP's offerings.

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