CyberWire Daily

Another speculative execution flaw. LokiBot evolves. APT41 moonlights. Scammers exploit tragedies. Black Hat notes.

Aug 7, 2019 · 21 min · Season 4 · Episode 901
0:00-21:26

Streams straight from the publisher. podnod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

A new speculative execution processor flaw is addressed with software mitigations. LokiBot gets more persistent, and it adopts steganography for better obfuscation. The cyber-spies of APT41 seem to be doing some moonlighting. An accused criminal who bribed telco workers to unlock phones is in custody. Scammers are exploiting the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton. And a call at Black Hat for the security sector to bring in some safety engineers. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on Virginia updating legislation to address Deep Fakes. Guest is James Plouffe from MobileIron on the challenges of authentication and the legacy of passwords.