This week the Hash-Time hosts welcome Chase Hall to discuss Gerrymandering, Election Fraud, Voter Hacking, Cybersecurity Movies and News of the Week.

Articles covered include:

1 - Vulnerabilities in WhatsApp can allow attackers to intercept and manipulate user messages

2 - North Korean Cyber Ops Reportedly Stole $2B to Fund Weapons Programs

3 - Leaked Code Exposed Several Vulnerabilities in Boeing 787 Internal Systems

Breach of the week: Baseball Hall of Fame Hit By Payment Card Stealing Attack

Plus 7 Stats That Show What It Takes to Run a Modern SOC

1) Staffing Levels (Typical SOC has 2-5 Analysts)

2) Budget (Invest in technology, staffing, automation)

3) Outsourcing (threat analysis, threat intel, malware)

4) Top Tech Used ISIEM & SOAR)

5) SCO Pain Points (Docs & Reporting, False Positives, Alert Fatigue)

6) SOC – NOC Relationship

7) Proving SOC Value with Metrics

On this week's show the Hash-Time hosts welcome Joel Menk to discuss the last 10 years of cybersecurity, the origins of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) along with news of the week and play the IT Search Term Game.

New Topics Covered:

1 - Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches

2 - Security flaw in Bluetooth communication protocol puts iOS and Windows 10 devices at risk

3 - Microsoft engineer allegedly used Bitcoin mixers to hide $10M gift card fraud, gets fired

PSA of the Week: Patch BlueKeep - More than 805,000 systems are still vulnerable to BlueKeep vulnerability

On today's show the Hash-Time hosts discuss the one thing you would change about the internet and whether or not the perimeter is dead. Also cybersecurity news and breaches for the week including:

1 - Fake CS: GO, PUBG, Rust Cheats Push Password-Stealing Trojan

2 - New ransomware strain dubbed ‘eCh0raix’ targets QNAP NAS devices

3 - Pirate Bay Found Running Browser-Based Cryptocurrency Miner To Generate Revenue

Breach of the Week: Agent Smith malware infects nearly 25 million Android devices

This week the Hash-Time hosts discuss an incident where the Security Operations Center (SOC) had a gun threat.

News of the week:

1 - Canadian Intelligence Agencies Warn of Election Tampering

2 - 50% of Cyber Attacks now Use Island Hopping

3 - Many VMware Products Affected by SACK Linux Vulnerabilities

Breach of the Week - US Virgin Islands Police Department Ransomware and Water & Power Authority Phishing

All this plus Cybersecurity Slogans and Buzzwords including:

1. Best-in-Breed

2. SOC & ASOC

3. SOC as Service or SOCaaS

4. Cybersecurity Resilience Platform

5. Cyber-hygiene

6. Cyber-fitness

7. Cyber Posture

8. Risk Profile

9. Risk Index

10. Alert Overload

11. Alert Fatigue

12. Three Letter Agencies

13. Defense in Depth

14. Machine Learning

15. AI

16. Automation

17. Orchestration

18. Cybercast

19. Market Guide

20. Red Team, Blue Team, Purple Team

21. Counter Threat Unit

On today's show the Hash-Time hosts cover cybersecurity tool development, what every InfoSec employee needs to know and dive into the anatomy of a ransomware attack.

Headlines from this episode:

1.) Microsoft Excel's Power Query featured can be exploited to deploy malware

2.) EU to run war games to prepare for Russian and Chinese cyber-attacks

3.) DoD contractor cybersecurity certification and 33 new enhanced controls to combat the advanced persistent threat

On today's show your Hash-Time hosts cover topics including Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Machine Learning as well as try to figure out if Google is Skynet.

Plus hot cybersecurity news for the week which includes:

1 - DHS Tests Remote Exploit for BlueKeep RDP Vulnerability

2 - Facebook Plans Globals Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency

3 - Samsung's Security Reminder Makes the Case for Not Owning a Samsung Smart TV.

The Insight Partners acquisition of Recorded Future for $780 Million plus Digital Shadows research uncovers over 2.3 billion files exposed across misconfigured online file storage technologies. The Hash-Time Hosts cover DATASHIELD’s participation at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC). All this and, Chris Vincent (Marketing) reads real cyber security targeted sales emails to Jeff Marshall (CISO) & Dave Norlin (SOC Director), both trained and tenured security professionals.

What is your key marker for business success? How do you develop employee's growth? How do you track personal growth? These questions plus news of the week including Baltimore Bitcoin Ransomware, Spoofing DuckDuckGo and the Cyber No-Fly list. The Hash-Time hosts also cover the history of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

BlueKeep Remote Desktop Exploits, Equifax outlook downgraded because of cyber attack and WannaCry-Infested Laptop starts at $1.13M in art auction. These news stories plus The Hash-Time Show hosts cover their biggest professional challenges and theorize about cloning a top security analyst.

The Trend Micro Hack & Symantec Denies Claims of “Fxmsp” Breach plus ranking the best and worst hacking movies of all time. Including discussion of the following films.

The Matrix (1999)

Hackers (1995)

WarGames (1983)

Swordfish (2001)

Ghost in the Shell (1996)

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Blackhat (2015)

AntiTrust (2001)

Johnny Mneomic (1995)

The Net (1995)