January 7, 2019, Episode 406, Show Notes

Episode 406 of The CyberJungle is about 29 minutes long.  The DarkWeb seglent with XYPRO CISO Steve Tcherchian on EHR, Ransomware and Healthcare InfoSec starts at 12:00.  You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Our Take on This Week’s News

Hacking attacks on your router: Why the worst is yet to come

Avast Threat Landscape Report

It’s time for Apple to stop playing it safe

Meet the new Diet iPhone: Could a fresh formula boost Apple’s bottom line?

Tales from The Dark Web

XYPRO CISO Steve Tcherchian on EHR, Ransomware and Healthcare InfoSec

Separating InfoSec and IT

Protecting Healthcare Data

Around The Corner

Ira talks about George Gilder’s latest book – Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent

Wrap

Wrap is on break

 

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October 31, 2018, Episode405, Show Notes

Episode 405 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  The interview with Tim Medin, Founder of Red Siege on keep it simple secure starts at  about 12:00. The interview with Joe McManus, the CISO of cloud patching start-up Automox begins at about 22:20. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Newsmaker Interviews

From SANS Network Security 2018: Tim Medin, Founder of Red Siege

From PFIC 2018: Joe McManus, the CISO of cloud patching management firm Automox

Our Take on This Week’s News

0day: Embedded vids in MSFTOffice docs can hide malware

Deloitte: CEO and Board Risk Management Survey

Tales from The Dark Web

Laptop-Carrying Fed Infects Gov Network

Wrap

The Wrap was getting ready for Halloween this week

 

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September 22, 2018, Episode 404, Show Notes

Episode 404 of The CyberJungle is about 29 minutes long.  The interview with Chet Hosmer, Python Forensics on using RaspberryPi in digital forensics starts at 9:10. The interview with Greg Kipper of Paraben Forensics on forensic tools to analyze the data gathered by the RaspberryPis in the Chet Hosmer interview. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Newsmaker Interviews

Chet Hosmer, Python Forensics, and the book mentioned in the segment: Defending IoT Infrastructures with the Raspberry Pi: Monitoring and Detecting Nefarious Behavior in Real Time

Greg Kipper of Paraben Forensics

Our Take on This Week’s News

Hackers swipe card numbers from local government payment portals

GovPayNow payment portal may have exposed over 14 million customer records

Tales from The Dark Web

Scammers pose as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, target security professionals

Wrap

Build a dashboard Raspberry Pi gadget that scans for potential gas pump card skimmers

 

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August 24 2018, Episode 403, Show Notes

Episode 403 of The CyberJungle is about 35 minutes long.  The interview with Alex Halderman on voting security beings at about 6:13; the interview with Daniel Crowley, Penetration Tester for X-Force Red beings at about 16:23; the interview with Aaron Campbell from WordPress Security begins at about 24:17; the interview John LaCour of PhishLabs brings at about 30:42.   You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Newsmaker Interviews

DefCon26: Voting InfoSec with Alex Halderman, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Information from Alan’s DefCon talk mentioned in the segment, here and here. The CyberJungle also photographed Alex Halderman in the DefCon Voting Machine Hacking Village.

BlackHat2018: SmartCity Infosec with Daniel Crowley, Penetration Tester for X-Force Red. Link to his recent blog posting on this topic.

BSidesLasVegas2018: Aaron Campbell, WordPress Core Security Team Lead

BlackHat2018: Phishing attacks with John LaCour, CTO of PhishLabs

Our Take on This Week’s News

Caesars Palace: When it’s hotel staff, not the hackers, invading privacy

 

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July 9 2018, Episode 402, Show Notes

Episode 402 of The CyberJungle is about 23 minutes long.  The interview with Aaron Riley on the latest wave of phishing attacks starts at 14:30. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Newsmaker Interviews

Aaron Riley on the latest wave of phishing attacks

Our Take on This Week’s News

There’s Even More Bad News About IRS Information Security

Insurance companies sue security firm over Heartland data breach

Will NanoVMs help secure business application data?

Tales from The Dark Web

A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked

Wrap

Thunderbird gets its EFAIL patch

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May 29 2018, Episode 401, Show Notes

Episode 401 of The CyberJungle is about 32 minutes long.  The interview with Steve Whalen of Sumuri starts at 12:45, and the twin interviews with Jerry Kaner of Ciphertex and Jeff Hedlesky of OpenText, starts at 19:27. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Newsmaker Interviews

Sumuri CEO Steve Whalen on new MAC forensic tools

High speed forensic imaging and encryption with Jerry Kaner, CEO of Ciphertex and Jeff Hedlesky, Evangelist with OpenText . The link for training.

Our Take on This Week’s News

Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Router

Big bimmer bummer: Bavaria’s BMW buggies battered by bad bugs

How One Recalled SUV Destroyed $45 Million In Cars, Burned A Massive Ship, And Sparked A Legal Battle Between Ford And BMW

Statement from PGP developers about eFail

How to turn off bold/italics/underline in HTML mail displayed as plaintext?

Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME

Tales from The Dark Web

On break due to Enfuse 2018 coverage

Wrap

10th Anniversary content coming in a future episode

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Apr 30 2018, Episode 400, Show Notes

Episode 400 of The CyberJungle is about 24 minutes long.  You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Last Private Place

Amazon has fixed a bug that allowed hackers to listen in on Alexa devices.

Our Take on This Week’s News

Win 7, Server 2008 ‘Total Meltdown’ exploit lands, pops admin shells

SamSam Ransomware Evolves Its Tactics Towards Targeting Whole Companies

Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged With Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million

Tales from The Dark Web

Don’t rush to deploy 5G if you want IoT security, agency warns

Wrap

You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators

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March 5 2018, Episode 399, Show Notes

Episode 399 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Interview

Now that California is about to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present, we re-play our interview with Abe Chen of Nio about infosec and self driving cars.

Our Take on This Week’s News

1 in 50 publicly readable Amazon buckets are also writable – and that’s a data disaster waiting to happen

Memcached DDoS Attackers Are Asking for a Ransom Demand

IRS, States and Tax Industry Warn Employers to Beware of Form W-2 Scam; Tax Season Could Bring New Surge in Phishing Scheme

Tales from The Dark Web

New 4G LTE attacks can spy on messages, track user location, and more

Wrap

23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys

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Jan 15 2018, Episode 398, Show Notes

Episode 398 of The CyberJungle is about 24 minutes long.  You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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In Depth

Samantha Stone on EHR litigation. FierceHealthcare.com has published a string of stories about the barrage of lawsuits against vendors of Electronic Medical Records. Notably, two EHR vendors have been dragged into court over fraudulent claims that their systems comply with federal requirements. Read the stories here and here.

Our Take on This Week’s News

Meltdown/Spectre fix freaked out some systems

Dear US taxpayers, 4.5b of your dollars were blown on unapproved IT projects

 How Antivirus Software Can Be Turned Into a Tool for Spying

Tales from The Dark Web

Toy Maker Settles Suit Over Hack of Kids’ Personal Data

Wrap

Cortana had a crappy CES

 

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Dec 27 2017, Episode 397, Show Notes

Episode 396 of The CyberJungle is about 32 minutes long.  The interview with Fred Kaplan, the author of  “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyberwar” begins at 13:30. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Interview

Fred Kaplan, author of “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyberwar”

Our Take on This Week’s News

Experts fooled Windows 10 facial recognition camera with a photo

Survey: More than 8 in 10 provider organizations don’t have a cybersecurity leader

 OIG identifies cybersecurity weaknesses within HHS

Tales from The Dark Web

The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit has gone bankrupt.after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year

Suspected North Korean cyber group seeks to woo bitcoin job seekers

‘Bitcoin Diamond’ is the Grinch That Will Steal Your Bitcoin

Wrap

OkCupid begins enforcing real-name rules, insists it’s a good idea

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