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Nine out of the ten funding articles mention AI - they're either using it in their products, or protecting AI use cases (particularly GenAI and LLM use). We discuss Broadcom's closing of the VMware acquisition, how they operate similarly to private equity firms, and how it's mostly bad news for VMware employees and customers. Some weird legal cases this week: Binance's founder and CEO pleads guilty to money laundering charges, a cybersecurity company's COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to generate sales leads, and Hacking Team's founder is arrested for attempted murder! We devote a chunk of time to discussing the huge rise in ransomware activity, and close out the show with a squirrel story on the tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau, and how the .tk domain has destroyed its reputation, and nearly the nation itself. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341

Nine out of the ten funding articles mention AI - they're either using it in their products, or protecting AI use cases (particularly GenAI and LLM use). We discuss Broadcom's closing of the VMware acquisition, how they operate similarly to private equity firms, and how it's mostly bad news for VMware employees and customers. Some weird legal cases this week: Binance's founder and CEO pleads guilty to money laundering charges, a cybersecurity company's COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to generate sales leads, and Hacking Team's founder is arrested for attempted murder! We devote a chunk of time to discussing the huge rise in ransomware activity, and close out the show with a squirrel story on the tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau, and how the .tk domain has destroyed its reputation, and nearly the nation itself. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341

On this edition of Parallax Views, The New Arab Investigative Unit's Anas Ambri joins the show to discuss his articles "Rothman: The investor that angered Jerusalem's Armenians", "Ben-Gvir associate, settlers intimidate Jerusalem Armenians", and "Spyware brokers and Lebanon's surveillance state". We delve into the Armenians in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem that are under threat from the mysterious Australian real estate investor Danny Rothman (aka Danny Rubinstein) and armed Israeli settlers. In the latter portion of the program, we delve into HackingTeam, spyware, and its role in the Lebanese army and Lebanese security state.

Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder and Pegasus Spyware continues with its third episode of the series digging into the origin story behind the company that makes Pegasus spyware, the NSO Group. Israeli tech entrepreneurs Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie initially developed remote access to smartphones, which evolved into Pegasus.  In a twist of fate, over the course of a decade, they have managed to beat out or outlast major competition in the spyware industry, including the Italian company Hacking Team. Guests: Keshet cybersecurity reporter Amitai Ziv; ReaQta CEO & former Hacking Team employee Alberto Pellicione; Security Advisor Ian Iftach Amit Shoot the Messenger is hosted by Rose Reid and Nando Vila and is a production of Exile Content Studio.

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Neal Bawa is a technologist who is universally known in the real estate circles as the Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $947 million-dollar portfolio as an ongoing experiment in efficiency and optimization. The Mad Scientist lives by two mantras. His first mantra is that "We can only manage what we can measure". His second mantra is that, "Data beats gut feel by a million miles". These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive profit for his 700+ investors. In today's episode, Neal shares insights about his strategy for multifamily investing, some interesting market statistics, and what he expects the future of the real estate market to look like. Episode Link: https://multifamilyu.com/ --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum and today I'm joined by my very special guest, Neal Bawa and he's talking to us about multifamily investing syndications and some really, really interesting market statistics about looking forward into what the real estate market future holds for all of us. So let's get into it.   Hey Neal, thanks so much for taking the time to come on the show with me today. I really appreciate you coming on and sharing some wisdom with me.   Neal: Well, it's exciting to be here, especially because I am a fan of your company and until five minutes ago, I didn't know that I was doing a podcast with Roofstock. So super excited to be here.   Michael: Awesome. Well, surprises always tend to keep people on their feet. So I'm really excited to chat with you today. So I know a little bit about your background and who you are but for anyone listening, who might not be familiar if you can give us the quick and dirty who you are, where you come from, and what is it you're doing in real estate today?   Neal: Absolutely. I'm a geek, a nerd, a maverick, I come from Silicon Valley. I live in Silicon Valley, I'm a data scientist by profession with a computer science degree. I've had a successful tech career, which, after 17 years ended in the sale of my technology company. I got into real estate because I live in Texas Fornia and I was paying 53.7% of my gross income in taxes and so you know, I looked around and looked at lots of different avenues to save money, looked at solar panels looked at oil, and came to the conclusion that none of those were anywhere close to real estate in terms of the incredible taxation benefits. I tell people, real estate is America's number one legitimate tax mafia. That's really what it is. I mean, no other area has the astonishing, the shocking tax benefits that real estate has. So I started doing real estate for that and started sharing a lot of my data science, you know, thought processes and ideas and it sort of just exploded from there. The first time I shared my insights on data science, I had four people in front of me. A week ago, I had 1100 listening.   Michael: Oh my gosh, that is really, really cool. So I love chatting with data scientists with geeks and nerds as the self-proclaimed title that you gave yourself, because I think it puts a process. They come from very process oriented backgrounds, and it allows them to apply the same processes to real estate, which I'm sure we're gonna get into in a little bit. But you're doing some pretty amazing things in the multifamily space if I'm wrong, mistaken, right.   Neal: I am, I am and I'm a huge fan by the way of the single family space and often direct people to single family, but multifamily is where I've been simply because of its amazing scale. So I started off in single family and I have now moved over to multifamily. So currently have about 750 million in construction and various multifamily spaces such as built around and apartments have about 250 million that I'm managing that I purchased that are existing buildings, and then I dabble in other areas as well as multifamily is kind of the core foundation of my business, but I dabble in self-storage, industrial townhomes for construction and student housing as well. So I love all kinds. I love all kinds of different asset classes at different times. But I always come back to the Foundation, which is which is multifamily.   Michael: Okay, now, you said a lot of amazing things with a lot of big numbers and I want to come back to that in just a minute. But I'm just curious on a personal note, can you share with our listeners, what's the best compliment you've ever received?   Neal: I think that the compliment had and I actually use it now you already heard it today was a person that walked in and said, This is the geekiest and nerdiest presentation I've ever heard that was still very entertaining. So that second part was like, okay, so I can I can get geeky I can get nerdy but I can still kind of get it down to the level where people enjoy it and are not snoring, you know, five minutes into the presentation. So I love that comment because it's hard to be a geek and be a nerd and still, you know have these aha moments for my audience. So I've worked really hard on that.   Michael: I love it and clearly you're doing it well because people 1100 people are coming to listen so my hat off to you. So let's talk about what excites you about multifamily because I think that there's an argument to be made that the fundamentals but you talking about going back to the basics is single family. So why do you think that it's multifamily? Why do you make that argument?   Neal: Because of single family? The short answer is this single family is why I'm excited about multifamily. Okay. So, you know, you hear a few numbers all over and over again, people say these numbers that don't quite explain the meaning of this, right. So we say in this home, the you hear this all the time, we have a shortage of single family homes in the US 5 million, the actual shortage is 5.1 4 million. You also hear we have a shortage of multifamily or apartments in this, you know, in the US and the actual shortage today is 600,000 units. So you notice most of the shortage is actually on the single family side, right? 5.2 million there 600,000 on the apartment side and for both of those, the vast majority of the shortage, not all of it, but the vast majority came from the fact that the US actually didn't really build anything single family or multifamily between 2011 in 2015. So we used to build, you know, I don't know, eight 700,000 800,000 a million units and then all of a sudden, 1112 1314 15, we built less than half of that creating this massive supply demand gap. It was enormous and that's why that has led to rental growth being you know, to AX what it used to be in the previous 30 years, we've also seen massive growth in prices on the multifamily side where, you know, we used to buy, you know, properties at, you know, $40,000 a door, and now we're buying the same properties at $250,000 adoor. So it's just an incredible, massive increase there in Parador prices, a lot of it really comes back down to the fact that we are absolutely unable and I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, we are absolutely unable to build starter homes in the United States, we actually don't have a shortage of single family. It's a very common misconception. We don't have a shortage of single family, we have a shortage of starter homes and when I talk about starter homes, I mean anything that in a reasonably reasonable Metro, I'm not talking about San Francisco Bay area, but let's say something in Phoenix, right? Being able to build a nice three to four bedroom home that's brand new for about $275,000 that has become categorically impossible today. Okay, for I'll give you an example of this, as you know, multifamily scales a lot better because when you're building 100 units, you get all these economies of scale, blah, blah, blah, okay, my cost of construction in New Braunfels, which, by the way, is not a major metro, you've probably never even heard of it. It's in the corridor between Austin and San Antonio and so you one could say Austin and San Antonio are both, you know, secondary markets, not primary like San Francisco or Los Angeles and in so and this, so this market must be like a tertiary market because it's in between my cost of construction for townhomes, not single family is well over 300,000 units. That's what my cost as a builder is, right.   So you understand what's happened since March 2020. Construction costs in the US have gone up by 34%. That's basically about 27 or 28 months, they're up 34% and the problem was there before COVID. So before COVID, even in the face of outstanding and insane amounts of demand. We were only able to build enough single family enough multifamily housing just to keep up with demand. So remember what I said 11, 12, 13, 14,15 those five years, we under built massively, and then 1617 1819 20, those five years we built okay, we did find we stayed up with demand. But we didn't make any dent in the single family shortage. We didn't make any dent in the multifamily shortage, those numbers stayed the same, because we were just building enough. And that was before this once in a century 34% increase in construction cost. That was before that increase. Today, construction cost has gone up. So but people who think that home prices will drop 20% simply have no understanding of the fact that there is it's impossible to supply a product. If home prices dropped by to even 10 or 15%. Most builders will either go out of business or simply pivot to build the rent. So they'll stop building anything for the market and what that will do is make the shortage worse, which means that there's even worse it's going to make it much worse, right? Because we absolutely have to build 500,000 units a year just to keep up with this year's demand. Forget about the shortage from before, right, we still want to keep up with the demand for this particular year. So we can keep the shortage from getting worse.   You know, otherwise, that number that 5.2 million number will go to 5.5 million and 6 million and 7 million so we'll keep getting worse and every time it gets worse rents rise prices right? So there's a cushion under home prices and most people wonder mentally failed to understand the mathematics here. If your cost of construction goes up 34% how are you going to deal with prices going down and if developers don't make enough homes, the only homes available in the market are the existing homes, right? So will competition on them will increase and haven't you been reading already in the last three months that permits in the US have dropped to 30% because as the US economy goes closer into a recession, so it's inevitable at this point that we'll go into recession, builders are very skittish, their construction costs are at an all-time high and so they're backing off. They're saying, You know what, I'm not going to take the risk of building 10,000 homes, I'll build five. So if everybody drops their permits by 30, or 40%, you're digging now a new hole for the construction that would have afforded for the delivery that would have happened next year and the year after. So now we're digging a hole in 2023, deliveries and 2024 deliveries. How do you reconcile that with a 20% drop in prices? The mathematics, the fact that people actually keep saying this with a straight face is mind boggling to a data scientist.   Michael: Yeah, I love that because you like everything you just said, I don't know, if you're watching the video, you saw my jaw on the floor, I'm gonna have to pick it back up here. But it just people feel like it feels because prices are so high and toppling, then interest rates are so high, but everything you've just said, I mean, factually, and mathematically makes so much sense and so how should people be listening? How should our listeners be thinking and reconciling? Okay, well, interest rates have gone so high, so fast. So the purchasing power has been drastically reduced. How should you be thinking about like, what's going to happen next?   Neal: So the first thing you should do is study the past, because the past gives you some wonderful examples of what happens when these sorts of things happen, right? So I'm gonna give you some benchmarks that will really blow you away, right? So in 1982, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates so fast, and so many times that mortgage rates went to 18%. As we're recording this, mortgage rates are at 5.3%. So when I say this in front of a an audience, I was teaching in Seattle, there were 500 people listening. So just, you know, for shits and giggles, I basically went down to the stage and I stuck the mic in people's faces and I said, So if interest rates were at 18%, would you buy a single family home? No. Okay. Do you think anybody else bought a single family home? No. What do you think prices went down? Why the answers were 20 to 50%? Well, history tells us that in 1982, when interest rates to buy new homes were 18%. Home prices declined by 10% for one quarter, bounced up by 10%, the following quarter, and actually ended the 1982 recession higher than the beginning of the recession. study history. It tells you how sticky real estate is. Now, everyone, the biggest reason why people feel that prices are about to fall off a cliff is 2008. There's no other reason because if you look at the data from the last 61 years, all you notice is home prices are extraordinarily sticky when interest rates go up, because interest rates haven't gone up once or twice, or three times. Nine times in the last 61 years, the Federal Reserve has hiked rates to kill inflation, nine times, right? Eight times the economy went into a recession, how many times you'd be have real estate prices go down? Once 2008 because 2008 was not a recession. 2008 was the largest single evidence of large scale fraud in American history. Millions of brokers and 1000s of bank banks committed large scale fraud on about 20 million Americans. That's what caused those home prices to fall. I see no evidence of fraud at this point. If I if anything, underwriting standards are pretty darn robust. The people have trouble…   Michael: getting a mortgage is such a pain.   Neal: Right? So when you look at this, and you say, so every everything that you're doing is based on what you saw in 2008. But you're not comparing the US economy today to 2008, right. So let's go back to looking at 2007 and comparing it to today's economy. So you want home prices to drop by 20%? Okay, fine. Question is, have you looked at how many jobs the economy was creating in 2007 and have you compared that to today's jobs, right? So in the last three months, and people are saying we're in a recession, and maybe we can talk about that, in the last three months, the US created 500,000 400,400 1000 jobs. That's 1.3 million jobs in the last three months, we actually struggled to create that many jobs in most regular years. So in three months, we created 1.3 million jobs and of course, before you know anybody says, hey, the quality of the jobs is very low. They're part time no, they're not. Please go back and look at a a shockingly high percentage of those are full time jobs and then people are like, Yeah, but people are not getting paid enough.   These are standard objections, right because people are not studying the radar. No wage inflation is very high in the US right now in work have the upper hand. Wait, inflation is at 5.1%. Most years, it's one and a half percent. What that what does that mean? People are good people who have existing jobs are getting big raises and then there's 11 million open jobs in the United States. This is the first time in US history that we've been at 3.5% unemployment and still have 11 million jobs open. So the economy is producing jobs at two and a half times. It usually does in a normal marketplace. How do you factor that in with home prices falling 20%? It's the it's a highly desired asset that people want. Now, it's absolutely likely that home prices will fall. But the big question is, will they fall on a nationwide basis and the answer is that there is no data to support that. markets that are red, hot, white hot, some of those markets that I invest in Phoenix, Boise, Las Vegas, Austin, these are markets that are at risk of a 10% correction, maybe some markets might even get a 15% correction. But the US is combined of 330 markets. When you look at those 330 markets, the chances that we will see a 1% overall price reduction is still low and most people are talking about 10 to 20% based on what data?   Michael: Ah, I love it. I love it. Neal, this is this is super, super insightful. So kind of thinking about the feel part of the emotional part and the people talking about the 20% correction. There are those who have said that the Zillow or the kind of red fins that give estimates of value or rentability. It's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy if I'm an investor and I go on Zillow and see hey, this was only valued at 100k by Zillow, but it listed at 120 I just wanna be paying 100k. Is there some risk of that with public sentiment that prices should be falling with the Zillow effect that's not trademarked?   Neal: Let's call it the Zillow effect and actually, it's a very important thing to talk about because if you know, the question really is, is there a risk of that the there's a 100% chance that the Zillow effect will drag home prices down? Here's the catch, though. The Zillow effect is both ways, right? So we've also seen the Zillow effect when prices go up. So you're gonna see a short term curve downwards as the market adjusts and then when it adjusts, a whole bunch of people are like, home prices are 10% down, this is my chance to get in and it's not just, it's not just the individual investors anymore. America is fundamentally different in 2022, than it was in 2008. There one single company called BlackRock, I think is Blackrock or Blackstone, maybe I'm confused about that, it has now launched a $50 billion fund, just to buy homes during a dip and their definition of a dip is 7%. So the moment they see home prices falling 7%, they're gonna come in, and there aren't, it's not a billion dollar fund. It's not a $2 billion fund, it's $50 billion, just Google it, right. So just Google $50 billion home buying fund. Now, that's one company, but there's at least two dozen of them. So real estate now is an institutional asset class that rival stock markets, and people who invest at a big scale in the stock market, their dip is 5% 7% 10%. So you'll get that dip and they'll come in and they'll, you know, scoop up a bunch of these properties and then at some point, people will realize this market isn't going to crash 10%, they're going to be like, Yeah, but it's seven or 8%, or 12%, down in my area. Let me grab some properties and then you're going to see that correction and now all of a sudden, your backup as before you know it, this is normal, right? The market that we've had for the last 10 years where prices only go up. That's bizarre, that's abnormal. That's never happened before in US history. What we've seen before is prices go up. But they don't always go up in a straight line, they go up, they're just a little bit, they go down for three or four months, then they go back up, and the overall direction is upward. in markets like this. The Zillow effect is necessary, right?   I'm telling people number one, a dip in market prices is incredibly healthy. I've got my fingers and toes crossed that it happens. I've got my fingers and toes crossed that the US economy goes into a recession and most people would beat me up for that. It's like, why would you have your fingers and toes crossed for that? Short answer is when we have this much money floating around. If we do not occasionally adjust the economic cycle, we always end up in a bubble and bubbles when they burst of this size, create trillions of dollars in losses and can drag us into a 2008 type recession but if you look at the history, and again, I keep going back to this, the Fed has raised and income interest rates nine times and eight of those the US economy went into a recession, right? Only one of those eight was a destructive event 2008. All other seven events were in economic cycle, reset or adjustment and when you actually look at the effect of that recession over a three year timeframe, the net effect was zero, the cyclically adjusted, some of the bad companies fell out some of the bad developers fell out some of the bad money in the marketplace fell out and in the if you look at the long term trend, that that bumped down that six month recession had no real impact on the economy 2008 I can't say that, right. So once again, there's one time when we've seen total destruction happen, and that was because we perpetrated large scale fraud on American millions of Americans and using that as our benchmark to make all decisions in the future simply means we're ignoring 61 years of history.   Michael: Which seemingly is easy to do for a lot of people.   Neal: But for most people, it seems right. So I'm kind of looking at this going, this doesn't make any sense. Do you not realize that we just produced 1.3 million jobs in the last three months and isn't that the best way for company, companies are saying we're worried about recession, they're issuing earnings, you know, forward looking, and they're saying your earnings might reduce, and then they go off and hire 500,000 people in a month, right. So I mean, it's lip service for the stock market, it's lip service, for their for their, you know, phone calls with their investors. But they're not doing what they're saying they're going to do, which is reduce hiring, reduce hiring is half a million. Now normal months tend to be about 200,000 reduce hiring should be 100,000 new people being hired or 50,000, not 500,000.   Michael: Yeah, yeah. It's so interesting, Neal. So how do you take the data and use it when you're investing?   Neal: So one of the things that I do, and I'll kind of give you a little story on this on how I got started, so right, so I'm a data scientist. So right around 2009. I am, you know, looking at the real estate market, and everything looks incredible for me, of course, everyone else is telling me this is the worst real estate market of all time. So I go and tell my family, we should be buying all kinds of real estate today. Just buy everything in the marketplace, you know, with every last dime you have and then my family basically decides that I'm so stupid that they don't want me attending family events in case I infect other people with my horrible ideas. So I'm excommunicated from the family because, they like this guy is going to infect other people and we're going to lose millions dollars. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna prove these people wrong. So I go and get gathered the best of my data science information and  I mined the Zillow website, I mined the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, along with a Ukrainian hacker was pretty good at mining. So we, you know, gather all this data together, we put it in a statistical software called R and we look at every city in America and up at the top is an unknown city, a town called Madera, California, mid era, it's 20 minutes from Fresno, right?   Nobody's ever heard of Madera, California. I know Madera, right and so Michael, what my data is telling me is, Madera, California is by far fallen way more than it should have, because from Peak 2005, it had already fallen in 2009 by 73%. So prices had fallen by 73%. But most markets fell by 30 and 40%. You know, some markets didn't even fall that much like Dallas only fell by 11%. So I'm looking at this falling 73%. I'm like, statistically speaking, this is the greatest market of all time. So I drive a jump into my car, I drive 144 miles to Madera, and I go there, and I see all these very beautiful Kaufman and Broad homes. They're like, gorgeous, like, they're brand new, right? Nobody's clearly nobody's ever lived in them. So I go to a broker in Madera, and I say, hey, what's happening here? I mean, these homes are gorgeous, right? Why doesn't anybody want to buy them and the answer is, well, Kaufman and Broad basically sold these two farmworkers, none of them had documented income. They've all left, so half the city's empty and I'm like, so. So what does it cost to make these beautiful five bedroom homes today? So it's like, yeah, if you were doing new construction would cost 250,000? So I'm like, but I'm, what are they available for? Oh, you can buy these for 90,000 any day, you know, they're all available for 90,000. You can buy as many as you like and I'm like, why in God's name? Would I not buy these for 90,000? He says, Neal only for one reason, one reason only one reason. You can't rent them. There's too many empty homes in Madera, so you can't rent them.   So you basically would have to buy these homes and then keep paying your mortgage in the hope that the market comes back someday. I'm like, I have to find a solution to this. There has to be a solution. So I jumped in my car again, I drive another 20 miles to Fresno, which is the big city, right and I go there, and I talked to a broker and I say, I want you to sell me an ugly property. He's like, Neal, no, no, no, no, I'll send you a brand new one. I've got plenty of them. None. I said no, I want a 30 year old ugly property in Fresno and he says, okay, well, these, you know, sells me a property. I buy it in cash. It's $110,000 on Summerfield, right? I take that property, I put pictures up on the web, and I go to my Ukrainian team and I say I want to In an avalanche of leads, rental leads for this one property and they're like, why? I mean, it's a pretty decent rental market in Fresno. Why do you want that many leads, I'm like, trust me, just give me like 5000 leads for this one property and they're like, okay, so the guy is sort of goes to back to his Hacking Team, and he hacks a bunch of sites, and he writes a bunch of scripts, and all of a sudden that property is like on the web 300 times in 26 different places and so is just listing it continuously using his engine and before I know it, the phone's just ringing off the hook, I'm, you know, my mailbox is filling up with leads. So I hired a person in the Philippines, this lady on a full time basis, and I say, call every one of these people and tell them this property is rented. But I have nine brand new properties 20 miles away in Madera and I will give you $50 amazon gift cards, if you just drive there and attend an open house $50, no questions asked. We'll just give you an Amazon or gas card and so she starts making phone calls. She was pretty good at her job. She'd been in a call center and you know, half the people swore at her because they would they were like, yeah, but this is not press No, this is Madera and it's like, well, this property is rented, I, you know, I've got these options and she would keep sending pictures to them by text, right, because people weren't reading, reading their emails, she would keep texting pictures of these beautiful properties and before I knew it, people were attending those open houses, I already had to deal with the banks where the moment I got a rent contract signed, I would pay cash for the property the next morning. Well, before I knew it, 11 properties were rented and then I turned around and repeated my success with my family and all of a sudden, I was making massive amounts of cash flow on these brand new homes, that now of course, they're all you know, $400,000 each.   But even back then, I was making so much money every single day on properties that I knew had to come back. It's all about the cost of construction. You don't hear about this on podcast, if it costs $250,000 to build something, and it's available for $100,000. Buy it because construction costs have never gone down in human history. They've only gone up and they've gone shockingly, up in the last two years. But even before that they've never really gone down. Nobody was able to reduce construction cost during the 2009 downturn. They simply didn't build anything, right. But did anybody get a reduction in construction costs? That's not possible. Most of our construction material doesn't even come from the US or I mean, our steel comes from places like China, right? You can't get a discount simply because your economy is in a recession. So it's all about construction costs. So once I had proven this algorithm, I decided I'm going to tell the world about it. But that's another story. So that's really how I got started in in single family and then I wrote algorithms, again and again, published them. As I said, the first time I had people that were for people listening to me last week, I had 1100 people listening to me, it's really about those algorithms. The only thing that's changed and this is the answer to your question, sorry, long winded but the answer to your question is, what I found was, when I spend this, use the same algorithm for single family that it has everything that I can possibly imagine except scale, I can never grow to a billion dollar portfolio, I can maybe grow to 10 million or 50 million, and a lot of people have. But if I apply the exact same data with multifamily, I have an 18 month crystal ball and I'll explain what that means and I was getting the same exact results. But because I was buying 200 units or building 300 units at a time, I was able to hit my goal of a billion dollar portfolio and I did it in I don't know that from 2014 to 2021, right. So seven years, I was able to hit a billion dollars. You just can't do that in the single family side. Otherwise, single family pretty awesome.   Michael: Neal, I love it. I absolutely love it. What happens and then I want to hear about your 18 month crystal ball. But what happens when things switch where the cost of new construction is cheaper than buying something that's existing?   Neal: My business is in trouble. We're all in trouble. But and so I obsess over that greatly. I go to all the conferences where I see new real estate technology coming out. I go to the modular conferences, I go to the 3d printing conferences. I look at what Amazon is selling online in terms of you know, kits I look at. I look at everything and I can tell you with complete confidence that in the next five to seven years, there is no technology that will drop cost of construction in the US. The first technology that I think will make an impact right around the 2030 timeframe is 3d printing. Modular is a laughable technology in the US. less than point 1% of homes in the US are made through modular and the total volume of modular factories in the US is under 5000 units. We need a million. So unless Congress decides to put $150 billion towards building ala carte factories, there's no volume and because of a company called KATERA, a very famous company K A T E R A going out and losing $2 billion of investor money. Nobody in the right white mind wants to build a modular factory modular completely, you know, not useful. 3d printing, yes. But remember, 3d printing only works in edge case scenarios, because the property looks odd because of all that concrete that you have to basically put on. So I think it'll work in subsidized housing for the first 10 years. So let's say 2030 to 2040. It'll be in subsidized housing by the end of 2040. I think 3d printing will completely change all math around construction and we'll do a full reset of real estate. So luckily, I'll be gone long before them.   Michael: I would say, well, hopefully this podcast is still in existence, we'll have to have you back on in 2040. To talk about it. Yep, so give us give us some insight into your 18 month crystal ball because that's something I've never heard before.   Neal: Yeah. So I love you know, again, going back to Statistics, right? So when we're crunching numbers or big data with our teams, one of the things we realized is when a market starts to see home prices going upwards. Okay, so it's home prices are screaming upwards, right in a certain market. What we noticed was between 12 and 18 months later rents in that market explode. Okay, between 12 and 18 months later, but not immediately and you might say, why not? Well, the short answer is, what happens is that there's a bunch of people in that market that are looking at home prices going up, and everybody wants to be on that train when it's going upwards. So they jump in, they buy these homes, and then that makes more people want to jump in and buy those homes, because they're friends, you know, their homes are worth a lot more and so you see this upward momentum and then finally, the market hits a critical point where most people that are looking to buy a new home in that marketplace, their income doesn't allow them to qualify, not most substantial portion of those people, right, so you get to maybe a quarter of all the people in market X can no longer qualify based on their income, right and the moment that happens, those people, they realize that their dream of homeownership is gone forever and then they don't want to go live in an apartment, what they'd want to do basically is they either wanted to go live in a class A apartments, so it's amenitized, with pools and gyms, and all those kinds of things or they want to go live in a built to rent community, which I'm building lots of, which essentially is the same as a single family home, but it's for rent.   But it's better than a single family home, because you've still got the pool and the jacuzzi and, and the dog park and the park, right, because it's 200 single family homes in one community, it's just that you're renting that home instead of buying it. So now you have a massive increase in demand for those kinds of assets because people realize I simply cannot buy any more unless I get a huge salary increase. I'm going to be renting, then those people they want to rent the best property they can find. At the very high end, they're going to be doing built around a single family rentals below that they're going to be doing built around. Below that they're going to be doing class a multifamily below that they're going to be doing Class B and Class C multifamily. So all of these rental markets see a massive boost. So this crystal ball works for every market, we've never actually found an exception to this rule with some weirdo exceptions in in rent control markets where rents simply can't rise. So as long as the market is not rent controlled, we have never seen an exception, the crystal ball works. The only part of it that is a little fuzzy is sometimes we see rents going up as soon as 12 months after the explosive growth of home prices and sometimes it takes 18 months.   So that crystal ball makes my life so much simpler because crystal balls are so hard to find actual crystal balls and reliably work are so hard to find. So I just look at these markets that are seeing these massive increases in home prices and I go buy a multifamily there, I have a business plan to rehab that multifamily and do value ads with it and do or maybe I'm doing new construction. So either way, I have a business plan. But that's my plan A but what I've found so far is in every instance that I've done this plan B has worked better, which is simply the market just went exp has explosive rent growth. So I didn't actually ended up implementing my business plan. I simply ended up selling my property in 18 to 24 months and making my investors a lot of money. I mean, I don't know of anybody else in the US that uses Core Data Science, not just numbers, but core data science to do what we do. We've had 37% IRR 47% annualized returns for our investors by simply using the crystal ball over and over again, over and over again. I mean, and I can tell you what those cities local like today, and I guarantee you've not heard of many of those cities.   Michael: Neal, I love it. What would you say have seen massive price appreciation? What is that mean because I think massive could mean different things to different people. So is there a percentage that you say, hey, you know what we crossed this threshold, that's the city that I want to invest in?   Neal: Oh, absolutely. The short answer is with multifamily. It's only about 25- 30% increase in prices. So one of the things that most people don't understand is, you don't need prices to double to double your profits, because you use leverage. So let's say somebody buys a $10 million building, and $3 million of that is equity, right or down payment, and 7 million of that is a loan. Now, let's say this building goes from $10 million to $13 million, right? So you've it's only gone up 30%. So if you sell it for 13%, and you return that $3 million in equity, right, there's $3 million in profit, plus all the rents you got for two years while you were holding it. So you've doubled people's money in two years or three years, right, even though the property's only gone up 30%. So that's very important to realize, 25 to 30% increase, usually doubled investor money in during the whole time and recently, those hold times have been very short, two years, two and a half years. So essentially, that means 45-50%, annualized returns. Now in normal times, it takes about five years to get to that point. So you're, you're doubling investor equity in five years, but that's still 20% annualized returns and I think that's pretty awesome because the investors are doing nothing, they attend a quarterly webinar, and they read a monthly update and if they, if they like you, they don't even do that. They just sort of delete your emails when they come to cash flow, right. As long as their cash flow checks are coming in. They're not reading anything you're sending them.   Michael: They're not complaining. That's it, that's it. Neal, this has been so much fun. Where can people learn more about you continue the conversation, and what's the best way for them to get in touch?   Neal: So I'm lucky enough that I'm the only Neal Bawa on the World Wide Web. So simply typing in any URL, and bawl and hitting enter into Google. There's a couple 100 podcasts that I've been on. They're geeky and nerdy, like this one too. But and if you're interested in my metrics, if you want to figure out what is that next unknown city that is going to have explosive growth, type in Neal space Bawa space, location, magic into the web, and you will see a 45 minute course that walks you through that process. So you can find those cities yourself. Or you can simply be lazy and go to my website multifamilyyou.com and find location magic they are sometimes we call it real estate secrets, same webinar, go in there and there's a list there's a list of those cities. You know, and I believe a lot of them are tertiary markets, but a lot of them are actually 35 minutes away from some kind of primary or secondary market, I find that the primary market secondary markets are really too expensive and are at much greater risk today of price drops. So like I wouldn't go out and in buy a property in Austin. But I've surrounded Austin with seven different properties because I find it to be the hottest city in America for the next 10 years. I'm just not interested in paying what I have to pay what I would have to pay in Austin. So I've literally surrounded Austin in all four directions with my portfolio.   Michael: Super clever. I can't wait to see how that works out. Neal, thank you so much for taking the time and coming on sharing with us. Really appreciate it and I'm sure we'll be chatting again soon.   Neal: Thanks for having me on the show.   Michael: Okay, everyone, that was our show a big thank you to Neal for coming on. Tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of meat and potatoes there to go digest and really think about because Neal kind of flipped the script on what a lot of people have been saying for a long time. So as always, if you enjoyed the episode, definitely we would love to hear ratings, feedbacks review from all of you, and we look forward to seeing the next one. Happy investing…

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There are a lot of companies out there willing to sell shady customers the tools they need to spy on just about anyone. All over the world software vendors like Hacking Team and NSO Group will help you break into a cellphone or read an email you're not supposed to. But that might soon be changing.On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard senior staff writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai joins host Matthew Gault to talk about spyware vendors. It's the subject of Lorenzo's new piece, “The US Crackdown on Spyware Vendors Is Only Beginning.”After a brief break, Gault and Franceschi-Bicchierai discuss the war in Ukraine. It's a wide ranging conversation about the digital battleground. As of this recording, Russian Government Websites are Down and the world is discussing whether it's feasible and effective to prevent Russia from updating its software. Gault also talks about how a college professor used Google Maps traffic data to figure out the war had started before news had even broken.We're recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live on Wednesdays at 4pm EST. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are a lot of companies out there willing to sell shady customers the tools they need to spy on just about anyone. All over the world software vendors like Hacking Team and NSO Group will help you break into a cellphone or read an email you're not supposed to. But that might soon be changing.On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard senior staff writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai joins host Matthew Gault to talk about spyware vendors. It's the subject of Lorenzo's new piece, “The US Crackdown on Spyware Vendors Is Only Beginning.”After a brief break, Gault and Franceschi-Bicchierai discuss the war in Ukraine. It's a wide ranging conversation about the digital battleground. As of this recording, Russian Government Websites are Down and the world is discussing whether it's feasible and effective to prevent Russia from updating its software. Gault also talks about how a college professor used Google Maps traffic data to figure out the war had started before news had even broken.We're recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live on Wednesdays at 4pm EST. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest Rob Boyce, Accenture's Global Lead for Cyber Incident Response and Transformation Services, joins Dave to discuss their research "Karakurt rises from its lair." Accenture Security has identified a new threat group, the self-proclaimed Karakurt Hacking Team, that has impacted over 40 victims across multiple geographies. The threat group is financially motivated, opportunistic in nature, and so far, appears to target smaller companies or corporate subsidiaries versus the alternative big game hunting approach. Based on intrusion analysis to date, the threat group focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, rather than the more destructive ransomware deployment. In addition, Accenture Security assesses with moderate-to-high confidence that the threat group's extortion approach includes steps to avoid, as much as possible, drawing attention to its activities. The research can be found here: Karakurt rises from its lair

Guest Rob Boyce, Accenture's Global Lead for Cyber Incident Response and Transformation Services, joins Dave to discuss their research "Karakurt rises from its lair." Accenture Security has identified a new threat group, the self-proclaimed Karakurt Hacking Team, that has impacted over 40 victims across multiple geographies. The threat group is financially motivated, opportunistic in nature, and so far, appears to target smaller companies or corporate subsidiaries versus the alternative big game hunting approach. Based on intrusion analysis to date, the threat group focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, rather than the more destructive ransomware deployment. In addition, Accenture Security assesses with moderate-to-high confidence that the threat group's extortion approach includes steps to avoid, as much as possible, drawing attention to its activities. The research can be found here: Karakurt rises from its lair

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Bart Preneel, professor en cryptograaf aan de KU Leuven duikt samen met Deevid in de wonderlijke en schimmige wereld van de cryptografie. Met topics van privacy-vriendelijk elektronisch stemmen tot massale overheidssurveillantie lichten ze een tipje van de sluier. Daarnaast bespreken ze of quantum computing wel eens het begin of het einde zou kunnen zijn van encryptie zoals we het kennen.CryptografieCryptografie is geheimschrift. Zodra mensen konden schrijven, begonnen ze ook zaken op te schrijven op een manier die voor anderen niet leesbaar was. Geheimschrift is eigenlijk even oud als het schrift zelf, maar cryptografie was tot 100 jaar geleden alleen maar toegankelijk voor machtigen, zoals koningen, diplomaten en generaals. Cryptografie werd dus gebruikt om machtigen af te schermen van gewone gebruikers.100 jaar geleden begon draadloze communicatie. Toen werd cryptografie ook belangrijk voor zakenmensen, die digitale transacties uitvoerden. Ook in een militaire context werden berichten naar schepen geëncrypteerd. Daardoor is er een soort 'cryptoboom' gekomen, met codeertoestellen zoals de Enigma.Fast forward naar nu. Waar cryptografie alleen in de handen van overheid en banken lag, ligt het nu in de handen van iedereen. We gebruiken allemaal cryptografie om onszelf te beschermen: in onze mobiele telefoon, onze identiteitskaart, op het internet, in onze autosleutels... Er zijn 30 à 40 miljard cryptotoestellen op de wereld vandaag.Cryptografie heeft een vlucht genomen sinds de introductie van de computer. In de moderne computerwereld heeft cryptografie de context van versleutelen zodat niemand het kan lezen, maar het gaat nu ook verder. Het gaat verder dan geheimhouding: authenticatie van mensen en zelfs software. Bijvoorbeeld bij het updaten van een app, wordt het principe gebruikt om te bewijzen dat de software geen malware bevat.Een korte samenvatting: alle interacties die je hebt in de fysieke wereld, hoe complex ze ook mogen zijn (zoals betalingen, onderhandelingen, verkiezingen), gaan we vertalen naar de digitale wereld. Historisch gezien ging het om de bescherming communicatie, dan de bescherming van opslag, en nu de verwerking van data in een vercijferde vorm.VerkiezingenEr bestaat een cliché dat IT-mensen huiveren van het idee van digitale verkiezingen tegenover verkiezingen met pen en papier omdat het onmogelijk is om dat te beveiligen. Professor Preneel gaat akkoord. Cryptografen zijn zeer wantrouwig tegenover digitale verkiezingen. Ze vertrouwen de cryptografie wel, maar niet de computers waarop gestemd wordt.Computers zijn heel complex: de chips hebben miljarden transistoren, het beheersysteem heeft miljoenen lijnen codes en alle applicaties hebben verschillende megabytes. Het gaat om een enorme complexiteit, waar altijd kleine foutjes in sluipen. Zo'n foutjes kunnen een verkiezing volledig ondermijnen. Er wordt wel onderzoek naar gedaan. In België is er bijvoorbeeld een systeem waar de computer je helpt, maar je stem wordt wel afgedrukt op papier. Het is een versneld telsysteem, een handige manier om je stem uit te brengen. De combinatie tussen computer en papier is erg handig, en je hoeft de computer niet te vertrouwen want je kan zien wat afgedrukt wordt.Er zijn wel systemen, zoals Helios, om op afstand te stemmen. Dat is een systeem waar je online kan inloggen en stemmen. Je stem wordt dan vercijferd en in die vorm opgeteld, zodat alleen jij weet op wie je gestemd hebt. Alleen je computer kan je bedriegen in dat geval.Bij de rectorverkiezingen van de KU Leuven was professor Preneel's suggestie om op papier te stemmen, maar uiteindelijk hebben ze toch elektronisch gestemd omwille van de pandemie. Ze hebben gewerkt met een systeem dat Code Vote heet. Mensen krijgen met de post codes toegestuurd met een kraslaagje. Zelf al wordt je brief onderschept, je kan ze niet ongezien open doen. Als je kraslaag er nog is, is je code beschermd. Je geeft je code dan online in, en zo kunnen de stemmen geteld worden. Op die manier heb je veel manieren om na te gaan of alles correct verloopt. Het grote voordeel van dit systeem is dat de computer niet weet op wie je stemt, want de computer (of de hacker) weet niet met wie de code overeenstemt. Dat systeem heeft goed gewerkt, maar het is nog niet klaar voor prime time nationale verkiezingen. Als je een aantal partijen zou kunnen omkopen, dan kan het toch fout lopen. Voor zeer gevoelige verkiezingen kan dit dus nog niet.Een ander probleem bij elektronische verkiezingen is dat je je stem kan verkopen of dat mensen je kunnen dwingen om te stemmen op een bepaalde persoon. Dat is een probleem waar ze nog geen oplossing voor gevonden hebben.Menselijke factorAls je met cryptografie bezig bent, moet je rekening houden met de menselijke factor. Je kan mensen nooit uitsluiten als bron van problemen. "Als je informatie beschermt, zal het altijd terecht komen bij een persoon die het leest. Je hebt nog steeds te kampen met een menselijke beslissing. De mens blijft de zwakste schakel van heel het systeem," volgens professor Preneel. Mensen zijn goedgelovig, maar ook economisch gezien zie je dat mensen aan kortetermijndenken doen en niet strategisch nadenken. Toch gelooft Preneel dat er een grote verantwoordelijkheid bij de ingenieurs ligt.Om dat te illustreren, maakt professor Preneel een analogie. "Stel dat er een gebouw is waar je een bepaalde deur niet mag openen, dan gaat toch altijd iemand de deur openen. Bij een computersysteem geldt dat ook. Mensen zijn nieuwsgierig, gehaast, slordig, of verstrooid. Die deur kan heel het gebouw laten invallen. Ingenieurs moeten leren gebouwen bouwen waar geen deur het gebouw kan laten instorten."De gebruikers zijn voor een stuk verantwoordelijk, maar aan de andere kant ligt er ook verantwoordelijkheid bij diegene die systemen bedenken en ontwerpen. Het is gemakkelijk om te zeggen dat gebruikers moeten opletten, maar eigenlijk moeten er gewoon robuuste systemen gebouwd worden. Criminelen studeren vaak psychologie en weten hoe ze mensen moeten manipuleren. Kijk maar naar scam calls waardoor mensen geld overschrijven omdat hun rekeningen zogezegd bedreigd worden. Daar kan cryptografie weinig bescherming bieden, maar artificiële intelligentie misschien wel. AI zou kunnen detecteren dat het wel vreemd is dat iemand plots 10.000 euro naar een willekeurige rekening overschrijft. "Het is belangrijk dat we gedrag en psychologie in rekening brengen wanneer we oplossingen bouwen," concludeert Preneel.Artificiële intelligentieHeel veel beveiliging is nog ad hoc, en daar kan AI zeker een rol spelen. Met machine learning systemen kan je bijvoorbeeld ontdekken hoe je een systeem kan aanvallen. Zeker in de VS zal men voor een stuk opgeven om systemen te beveiligen. In Europa vertrouwen mensen op hun bankkaarten door pincodes, maar in de VS betalen veel mensen nog steeds met cheques die ze inscannen en met een smartphone doorsturen zonder enige beveiliging.Zo zie je dat er een verschil is in filosofie: "Wij willen een systeem veilig houden, in de VS houden ze iedereen grondig in het oog. Als ze iets fout doen, dan straffen ze zeer streng. Die aanpak vertaalt zich meer en meer naar Europa. Ofwel investeer je in beveiliging, maar dat is duur en dat zal nooit perfect zijn, ofwel houd je alles in het oog via netwerkverkeer met artificiële intelligentie die kan herkennen wat goed of slecht gedrag is," volgens Preneel.In het algemeen werkt die aanpak wel, maar er zijn twee problemen: Privacy. Systemen houden alles in het oog en iedereen wordt voortdurend gemonitord. Slimme criminelen. Zij weten hoe ze zich moeten gedragen op een manier die moeilijk te leren is. Zij gedragen zich op een manier die sterk afwijkt van ander slecht gedrag. Daarnaast zetten zij ook artificiële intelligentie in om die AI-systemen aan te vallen. "Je krijgt dan een soort oorlog van de AI-systemen waar zowel verdedigers als aanvallers AI inzetten. Een ding weten we wel zeker: privacy zijn we dan kwijt." PrivacyDoor de verstrengeling van privacy en cryptografie botst cryptografie vaak ook met de wereld van de overheid. "Cryptografie gaat over macht. Als je met cryptografie bezig bent en nadenkt over toepassingen, kom je altijd in discussies terecht over controle."De overheid heeft altijd toegang gehad tot communicatie in zekere zin, bijvoorbeeld telefoongesprekken onderscheppen of brieven openen. Vandaag, met technologieën zoals WhatsApp, krijg je end-to-end encryptie. Op je telefoon is er geen encryptie. Zodra iets over het vast netwerk gaat, is het niet vercijferd. "Ook voor 5G is er zo'n discussie. Daar wordt in principe niets end-to-end vercijferd. Dat is zorgwekkend, want 5G wordt ook gebruikt voor robots en zelfrijdende voertuigen. Ook daar heb je het risico van interceptie."Privacy is een grondrecht van de burger. Op zich is er geen probleem dat de overheid in selectieve gevallen toegang wilt volgens Preneel. Op dit moment gebeurt dat door telefoons te hacken. De vraag is hoeveel telefoons worden gehackt, of er ook informatie kan worden geplant (en of mensen dus vals beschuldigd worden). Er zijn veel consequenties waarvan je niet weet wat de implicaties zijn. Vroeger kon de overheid niet binnenkijken in alle communicatie. Dat kon maar op een beperkte schaal, zo moesten bijvoorbeeld alle afgetapte telefoongesprekken uitgeschreven worden door de politie. Digitaal kan je alles onderscheppen en lezen, en dat is niet goed voor de maatschappij want er is een zeer groot risico op misbruik. "We moeten massale interceptie tegen houden, en end-to-end encryptie is daar een goede oplossing voor."Toch heeft interceptie soms ook voordelen. Zo werden veel pedofilienetwerken opgerold doordat Facebook Messenger niet end-to-end vercijferd werd. Dat is ondertussen wel het geval, dus zo'n netwerken worden nu op een andere manier opgespoord. Ze kunnen berichten niet meer onderscheppen, maar ze kunnen wel aan de bron filteren tegen bekende Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). "Op het eerste zicht lijkt dat een redelijke oplossing, want je blijft end-to-end encryptie behouden. Je filtert tegen schandalig materiaal, maar als die kringen weten welke beelden worden onderschept, dan gaan ze andere beelden sturen. Dan komt het risico dat de overheid andere middelen gaat inzetten. "In West-Europa zijn we nog niet zo bezorgd, maar denk maar aan Hongarije of Polen. Zoiets kan leiden tot een systeem van censuur door de overheid op een manier die niet zichtbaar of transparant is."Who watches the watchers?NSO Group en Hacking Team hebben toegang tot machines op afstand. Zij betalen een miljoen dollar voor zero days en gebruiken die om op afstand in te breken. De overheid gebruikt dat. Hoe weten we dat? Hacking team is gehackt en al hun tools met klantenlijst staan op Wikipedia.Zo'n systemen bestaan, dat is een economische en politieke realiteit. "We moeten als maatschappij de controle op deze systemen opvoeren, want het geeft heel veel macht aan overheden. Die macht is er en je kan ze niet terugschroeven. Vanuit experten moet je voldoende controle uitoefenen."Er is ook een tweede aspect: metadata. De overheid weet wie met wie communiceert, iedereen heeft mobiele telefoon, iedereen weet waar je bent (Google weet het ook). Ook al zet je je wifi even uit, als je het terug opzet, dan word je telefoon uiteindelijk toch gelokaliseerd door Google, Apple en telecommaatschappijen. Kortom: ze weten waar je bent en met wie je praat.Metadata is een zeer machtige tool om mensen te controleren. In Europa hebben we de dataretentierichtlijn die operatoren verplicht om data bij te houden. In België is dat voor 1 jaar. Die richtlijn is al vaak aangevochten bij het Hof van Justitie, en vreemd genoeg geeft het Hof ook toe dat het niet wettig is en in strijd is met het recht op privacy. Die metadata is echter zo belangrijk dat de meeste landen het toch omzeilen door de wetgeving een klein beetje aan te passen. Dan begint er opnieuw een rechtszaak van 5 jaar, en begint het spelletje opnieuw.De overheid kan al heel veel doen op dit moment. Er zijn overal camera's om misdaad op te sporen, gestolen of niet-verzekerde auto's op te sporen of om te kijken of de coronamaatregelen worden nageleefd. "Als maatschappij moeten we ons afvragen tot in hoeverre we toegang tot zo'n tools moeten controleren. Er is veel nood naar onderzoek rond bescherming van metadata.""Als Europeanen moeten we niet zo gerust zijn. De Amerikanen bespioneren ons uitgebreid met behulp van hun Britse vrienden, en dat gaat na de Brexit zeker niet verminderen. Aan de andere kant bespioneren wij op onze beurt ook de Amerikanen," vertelt Preneel. "Wat niet goed geweten is, is dat er veel nauwe samenwerkingen zijn. Zo heb je de Five Eyes: de VS, Canada, Australië, Nieuw-Zeeland en het VK. Daarnaast heb je ook veel andere samenwerkingsverbanden. De NSA en GCHQ hebben systemen waar zij alle bronnen kunnen samenvoegen en analyses uitvoeren."Om een idee te geven hoe machtig die systemen zijn: de Bundesnachrichtendienst (de Duitse geheime dienst) bespioneerde Franse en Duitse bedrijven, en geeft die informatie aan de Britten in ruil voor toegang tot hun analysesystemen. Die systemen zijn dus zo waardevol dat zij bereid waren om informatie te geven over hun eigen burgers en bedrijven aan concurrenten om zo mensen in het oog te houden.Over België zijn er geen samenwerkingsverbanden, maar het is wel erg duidelijk voor professor Preneel dat alle metadata die we hebben naar de Britten en Amerikanen gaat. Dat doen we zodat we hun systemen kunnen inkijken als er een aanval is in Brussel, bijvoorbeeld. "Daar wordt nooit politiek over gediscussieerd, dat zijn dingen die volledig verborgen gehouden worden voor de burger. Als je alle documenten grondig leest en alle puntjes verbindt, dan zie je een plaatje dat wel zorgwekkend is."Wat als ik een misdaad bega?Tegenwoordig is het moeilijk om bewaking te ontlopen. Je kan je telefoon thuislaten of hem in een soort van kooi van Faraday steken, maar alle mensen rondom jou hebben ook een telefoon. Als ze weten wie jouw contacten zijn, kunnen ze daar ook kijken of je in de buurt bent door stemdetectie. Ook via camera's kunnen ze mensen opsporen. Ze hebben van alles beelden. Ook wagens worden gevolgd.Een moderne wagen heeft een tachtigtal processoren en er zitten ook een 3 à 4 "gsm's" in met simkaarten. Dat kwam een beetje in het nieuws toen Salah Abdeslam werd gearresteerd. Hij had blijkbaar een voorkeur voor Duitse wagens en ging daarmee medeterroristen oppikken in Europa. Zelfs achteraf, na de feiten, konden ze die activiteit nog zien en het spoor door Europa volgen. In principe moet je een auto van 1990 hebben om niet gevolgd te worden. Het probleem is dat er overal camera's staan, dus het is heel erg moeilijk.Daarnaast laat je ook veel sporen achter op toestellen. Zelfs als je informatie wist, blijft die erop staan. De enige manier om informatie van een flash drive te halen is het verbranden en in duizend stukjes te slaan. Met speciale tools blijven die gegevens zichtbaar, zelfs als je die gegevens overgeschreven hebt. "Als je niet gevonden wil worden, moet je eigenlijk 30 jaar terug in de tijd gaan en in een bos gaan wonen.""Cryptografie is de technologie die ons toelaat om naar geheimhouding te gaan, maar eigenlijk falen we compleet, want er is eigenlijk geen geheimhouding meer."Bart haalt ook het Sky Ecc verhaal aan. "Als ik misdadiger was, zou ik nooit zo'n standaardtelefoon nemen, want daar zit al van in het begin het probleem in dat er een achterdeurtje is."FlameFlame werkte door een hash collision attack. Zij hebben laten zien dat de NSA (of diegene dat het gedaan heeft) erg goed is in wiskunde. Die aanval was niet zo verrassend. Ze heeft de zwakheden van MD5 getoond aan de KU Leuven in 1992 al. Een Chinese professor (Wang Xiaoyun) heeft in 2004 aangetoond dat ze het best niet meer gebruikten.Na de publicatie van 2004 heeft Microsoft een MD5 removal person aangesteld. De taak van die persoon was om MD5 uit de producten van Microsoft te halen. Alleen al in Windows waren er maar liefst 800 toepassingen van MD5. Die removal person heeft gefaald, want er waren na 5 jaar nog steeds producten waar updates werden gedaan met MD5. Dat is niet alleen de fout van Microsoft, maar ook van hun klanten die legacy systemen hadden en die druk hebben uitgeoefend om toch nog MD5 te gebruiken. "Uit Flame kunnen we de les trekken dat het veranderlijk gedrag een zeer moeilijk probleem is en dat het 5 à 10 jaar kan duren als we er niet genoeg aandacht aan besteden."Quantum computersQuantum computers zijn 'gevaarlijk' voor cryptografen. "Het kan goed zijn dat wat we nu gebruiken binnen 10 jaar niet meer veilig is."Het breken van encryptie met quantum computers wordt gedaan met het Shor algoritme, priemfactorisatie en discrete logaritmen. Heel veel systemen hangen af van het feit dat factorisatie of discrete logaritmen moeilijk zijn. Het algoritme van Shor laat zien dat als je een grote computer kan bouwen, dat zo'n probleem plots gemakkelijk is. Er zijn nog geen grote quantum computers: de grootste zit momenteel op zo'n 50 fysische qubits. Het heeft nog een enorme afstand te gaan, we hebben een paar duizend logische qubits nodig. Dat vraagt een paar miljoen fysische qubits. Er wordt vooruitgang geboekt, maar toch trager dan je zou denken. Professor Preneel denkt desalniettemin dat de kans groot is dat het wel zal lukken, of dat nu binnen 10, 15 of 40 jaar is. Zo'n computers zijn jammer genoeg zeer duur. Ze worden gebruikt om crypto aan te vallen, en ook voor medisch onderzoek (om bepaalde moleculen te zoeken) of AI problemen op te lossen (optimalisatieproblemen). Als cryptografen zijn ze al lang bezig met dit probleem. Ze zijn al bijna 20 jaar op zoek naar andere algoritmen die bestand moeten zijn tegen quantum computers (post-quantum cryptografie). De Amerikaanse overheid heeft daarvoor een competitie opgestart. Er zijn al groot aantal algoritmen gebroken, en er blijven nog een tiental over (Seidel's algoritme onder andere). "We hebben nog wel een aantal troefkaarten achter de hand. Voor privacy zou het zeer slecht zijn als we geen antwoord vinden."Quantum encryptie: het einde van encryptie?Als cryptografen zijn ze zeer kritisch over quantum encryptie. "Als je kijkt waar de technologie nu staat, is QKD enorme overkill die eigenlijk nergens voor dient." Volgens Preneel hebben ze enorm goede marketing en grote budgetten. Het is een cool onderzoek, want ze manipuleren protonen, maar wat ze eigenlijk oplossen is key amplification (sleuteluitbreiding; een sleutel langer maken), maar dat kan je ook met AES."Hun oplossingen zijn punt tot punt, terwijl internet een netwerk is waar iedereen kan connecteren. De afstand is nog altijd beperkt, over glasvezel. Quantum repeaters bouwen is bijna even moeilijk als quantum computers bouwen. Het is ook geen oplossing voor authenticatie, wat een groter probleem is voor geheimhouding."P = NP?Volgens Preneel is dit mogelijks onbewijsbaar of toch niet met huidige technieken. "We moeten wachten op een doorbraak," sluit hij af.https://youtu.be/PywZbrLw8kg 

The tool attacks a device's UEFI firmware—which makes it especially hard to detect and destroy.

As with any real estate investing strategy, it is important to have a solid team in place to help you execute purchasing your real estate properties. The type of investing you are embarking on will dictate who you need on your team. For this section, we will obviously be talking about assembling a team to help you purchase a house hacking property.

Location: Zoom Date: Thursday 23rd July Company: Coinbase Role: Co-Founder & CEO Coinbase is amongst the largest and most established Bitcoin companies in the world, and it has secured itself as one of the most accessible places to buy and sell Bitcoin. Its latest round of funding valued Coinbase at $8.1 billion, and there are rumours that the company plans to be listed on a U.S stock exchange later this year. Forbes recently called Coinbase ‘Bitcoin's Guardian Angel' and claimed it would make ‘crypto safe for all'; however, the view within the Bitcoin community is quite different. Coinbase has come under heavy scrutiny in recent years, most notably for their $13.5 million acquisition of blockchain intelligence company Neutrino. Following this acquisition, it was revealed that the Neutrino founders were involved in the Hacking Team, a team of people who reportedly sold surveillance tools to governments, including authoritarian regimes. With this news, #deletecoinbase was trending on bitcoin twitter, putting CEO Brian Armstrong under considerable pressure to fire the team. More recently, Coinbase again sparked controversy when The Block reported that the company agreed to sell blockchain analysis software to The Secret Service and the IRS, and was planning a similar deal with the DEA.  In this interview, I talk to Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinbase. We discuss the difficulties in running a large startup, regulations, the Neutrino acquisition & providing analytics to government agencies with Coinbase Analytics.

“There is really no excuse I can give you, so all I can tell you is we make mistakes as well, and a lot of building a company is trying to learn from mistakes and just get better over time.”— Brian ArmstrongLocation: ZoomDate: Thursday 23rd JulyCompany: CoinbaseRole: Co-Founder & CEOCoinbase is amongst the largest and most established Bitcoin companies in the world, and it has secured itself as one of the most accessible places to buy and sell Bitcoin. Its latest round of funding valued Coinbase at $8.1 billion, and there are rumours that the company plans to be listed on a U.S stock exchange later this year.Forbes recently called Coinbase ‘Bitcoin’s Guardian Angel’ and claimed it would make ‘crypto safe for all’; however, the view within the Bitcoin community is quite different. Coinbase has come under heavy scrutiny in recent years, most notably for their $13.5 million acquisition of blockchain intelligence company Neutrino. Following this acquisition, it was revealed that the Neutrino founders were involved in the Hacking Team, a team of people who reportedly sold surveillance tools to governments, including authoritarian regimes. With this news, #deletecoinbase was trending on bitcoin twitter, putting CEO Brian Armstrong under considerable pressure to fire the team.More recently, Coinbase again sparked controversy when The Block reported that the company agreed to sell blockchain analysis software to The Secret Service and the IRS, and was planning a similar deal with the DEA.In this interview, I talk to Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinbase. We discuss the difficulties in running a large startup, regulations, the Neutrino acquisition & providing analytics to government agencies with Coinbase Analytics.This episode’s sponsors:Kraken - The best place to buy, sell & trade BitcoinBlockFi - The future of Bitcoin financial servicesSportsbet.io - Online sportsbook & casino that accepts BitcoinCasa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key security.-----WBD244 Show Notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/coinbase-ceo-on-bitcoin-with-brian-armstrong-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show my doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: Bitcoin | Ethereum | Litecoin | Monero | ZCash | RipplecoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

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Drones, seguimiento, Anonymous… las protestas en EEUU no sólo tienen un componente político. Bancos y comercios online escanean tu sistema sin tu conocimiento. Un hacktivista decide acabar con una empresa dedicada al espionaje y lo consigue. Hacking Team is dead. Fallo en el sistema de “Inicio de sesión de Apple” valorado en $100,000 dólares. Arrestan a un miembro de Fin7. El grupo de ciberdelicuentes que ya se ha embolsado un billón de dólares hackeando bancos. Cibercriminales abusan del “sal” para comprometer a servidores de Cisco el mismo día en que son desplegados. Cuidado con tus aplicaciones móviles, una nueva vulnerabilidad en Android podría modificar su comportamiento. El grupo malicioso Blue Mockingbird ataca sistemas para minar la criptomoneda Monero. Notas y referencias en tierradehackers.com

Drones, seguimiento, Anonymous… las protestas en EEUU no sólo tienen un componente político. Bancos y comercios online escanean tu sistema sin tu conocimiento. Un hacktivista decide acabar con una empresa dedicada al espionaje y lo consigue. Hacking Team is dead. Fallo en el sistema de “Inicio de sesión de Apple” valorado en $100,000 dólares. Arrestan a un miembro de Fin7. El grupo de ciberdelicuentes que ya se ha embolsado un billón de dólares hackeando bancos. Cibercriminales abusan del “sal” para comprometer a servidores de Cisco el mismo día en que son desplegados. Cuidado con tus aplicaciones móviles, una nueva vulnerabilidad en Android podría modificar su comportamiento. El grupo malicioso Blue Mockingbird ataca sistemas para minar la criptomoneda Monero. Notas y referencias en tierradehackers.com

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Brian Robison: Mobile Malware and APT Espionage Until now, the public’s exposure to mobile phone malware has been dominated by news about the privately run “greyware” vendors, including Gamma Group, Hacking Team and NSO. Their commercial smartphone spyware seems to inevitably end up in the hands of autocrats who use it to hamper free speech, quash dissent, or worse. Consumers of these news stories are often left with the impression that mobile malware is just something paranoid dictators purchase for use within their own borders in luddite countries few people can find on a map. It is not.   In a coming report, BlackBerry Cylance researchers will reveal what the focus on those groups has overshadowed: several governments with well-established cyber capabilities have long ago adapted to, and exploited, the mobile threat landscape for a decade or more. In this context, mobile malware is not a new or niche effort, but a longstanding part of a cross-platform strategy integrated with traditional desktop malware in diverse ways across the geopolitical sphere.   This week on Insecurity, Matt Stephenson has a chat with BlackBerry Cylance Chief Evangelist Brian Robison about the scourge of Mobile Malware and how the threats that come from attacking mobile devices are different… and thus require a different mindset when it comes to securing those devices and your network.   About Brian Robison   Brian Robison has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. As Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry Cylance he is focused on educating and inspiring the world. Robison hosts live Hacking Exposed events, where he demonstrates the tools and techniques of real-world threat actors.   Brian is a regular speaker at industry events such as RSA, Black Hat, thought leadership forums like ISC2 Think Tank and is highly sought after to speak at partner events.   Prior to joining BlackBerry Cylance, Robison worked to defend organizations from mobile security threats —three years as a Director at Citrix XenMobile and two driving enterprise strategy at Good Technology.   Brian also spent over six years at McAfee with a special focus on end-point security -leading efforts to modernize ePolicy Orchestrator. During this time, he also managed vulnerability and policy compliance solutions. His early career ranges from a six-year period with Tripwire, Inc. to cutting his professional teeth in consumer electronics at Diamond Multimedia.    About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Broadcast Media team at BlackBerry, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV   Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Matt to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come   Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line.   Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and GooglePlay as well as Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio and wherever you get your podcasts!   Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we sit down with three members of the University of New Haven Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group to discuss their resent research into virtual reality application security. UNHcFREG recently discovered several vulnerabilities in the popular VR application BigRoom with results ranging from spying on users to code execution on the victim's computer. We'll chat with Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili, Martin Vondráček, and Peter Casey about this research project, and their thoughts on the future of VR and AR security. Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili is the Elder Family Endowed Chair of Computer Science & Cybersecurity at the Tagliatela College of Engineering, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Haven, CT, specializing in Cybersecurity & Forensics. He serves as the Assistant Dean and is the founder of the University of New Haven's Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG). Abe is also the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL). He received his BSc, MSc and PhD all from Purdue University where he worked as a researcher in CERIAS. Abe co-authored over 70 publications including books, peer reviewed articles, and conference papers and has received funding for his work from a variety of sources including the NSF, NSA, DHS and MITRE. Most recently, work with his students showed security issues in mobile social messaging applications that affect over 1 billion people worldwide they also found major Virtual Reality exploits that affect people globally. His research interests include cybersecurity and forensics from technical, social, and psychological perspectives. He has worked closely with law enforcement and private sector and has published work on real challenges facing cybercriminal investigators and has presented at a number of conferences worldwide. Abe's work has also been featured in news outlets and on TV worldwide in over 20 languages. To learn more about Abe and his work you can visit http://www.baggili.com and http://www.unhcfreg.com. Martin Vondráček is an enthusiastic student researcher focused on cybersecurity and computer networks, currently (2019) pursuing his master's degree at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology (FIT BUT), Czech Republic. He has completed his Bachelor's degree with honors at the same university and has received several academic awards including dean's award and rector's award. Martin joined the Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group (UNHcFREG) and Virtual Reality Lab as a visiting scholar from the FIT BUT in 2018. During his studies at the FIT BUT, he collaborated with the Networks and Distributed Systems Research Group (NES@FIT). His previous research was focused on automation of Man-in-the-Middle attack on Wi-Fi networks. Martin has also participated in student exchange programs at the University of Malta and the University of South Wales. You can contact him at linkedin.com/in/vondracek-martin, find out more about his publicly available work at github.com/mvondracek, and follow him at twitter.com/VondracekMar. Peter Casey is a graduate researcher at the University of New Haven. He is a member of the Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group, Virtual Reality Lab, and the Hacking Team. While Peter is currently working towards his Master's in Computer Science (May 2019), he will soon start his career at MITRE. Prior to his studies at the University of New Haven, Peter served several combat deployments with the 1st battalion 75th Ranger Regiment and received his Bachelor's of Science in Biology from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.

Janine Roem joins me to talk about the recent Coinbase-HackingTeam debacle and the community's response with #deleteCoinbase, as well as her ideas for revision-controlled journalism. Read Janine's thread here https://twitter.com/J9Roem/status/1100876184999596054 ----Janine https://twitter.com/j9roem - Twitter https://t.co/4Sggw8Drp7 - Janine's blog ----Block Digest https://twitter.com/blockdigest - Twitter https://t.co/3fjlDiCJdU - Audio feed https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg - Youtube -----Referenced https://blog.coinbase.com/welcoming-neutrino-to-coinbase-b3f56171850d - Coinbase Welcomes Neutrino https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/26/fear-this-man-cyber-warfare-hacking-team-david-vincenzetti/ - Foreign Policy "Fear this Man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQ7LNeC8Cs - To Protect and Infect talk https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/04/06/hacking-team-loses-sales-license/#25365ef92498 - Hacking Team Loses License https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/ - Hacking Team WikiLeaks+ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35958932 - Italian student murdered in Cairo https://cheddar.com/media/coinbase-adds-support-for-ripple-s-xrp-despite-regulatory-uncertainty - Chrstine Sandler interview with Cheddar https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1100864154443776000 - Udi Wertheimer starts the DustChain https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1102346122138333184 - Kraken's analysis of Neutrino https://blog.coinbase.com/living-up-to-our-values-and-the-neutrino-acquisition-ba98174cdcf6 - Coinbase to "transition" Hacking Team members from Neutrino out of Coinbase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TufkdtKcYHM&feature=youtu.be - Kraken Decacorn podcast - Jesse and Christina's thoughts on Coinbase and their response https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-reports-women-crypto-ab030d19ce11 - Coinbase Celebrates Women? https://youtu.be/66ZoGUAnY9s?t=5h48m10s - Jameson Lopp: Extreme OpSec ---- Support the Show: https://bottomshelfbitcoin.com/donate https://bitcoinmeritbadge.com - Bitcoin Merit Badge https://bottomshelfbitcoin.com/kidsbook - Tuttle Twins - Great kids books and a great way to support the show! ----- Music Credits: Morning Ritual by L'Indecis https://soundcloud.com/chillhopdotcom/lindecis-morning-ritual - Listen on Soundcloud http://chillhop.com/listen - Chillhop Records http://bit.ly/ChillhopSpotify - Listen on Spotify Fatherhood by Joakim Karud https://joakimkarud.bandcamp.com/track/fatherhood - Purchase on Bandcamp https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud/fatherhood?in=joakimkarud/sets/loudness-clarity-ep - Listen on Soundcloud

It can take years to build a brand and yet only 2 weeks to kill it. Join Christina and Jesse as they analyze and discuss the case of #deletecoinbase. It turns out that when privacy, security and civil liberties are violated people get really angry, start global movements and delete their accounts. Go to https://www.kraken.com/ to buy, sell or trade crypto with an exchange that is built on values like security, privacy and civil liberties. Go to #deletecoinbase to learn more about the topics discussed in this video.   ----------This is “How to Grow a Decacorn” where we give you an inside peek into the real-time adventures of Kraken, a company that’s on its way to being worth $10B. Witness the madness now...   -------   Episode 5:   Coinbase knowingly acquired a blockchain analysis solution (Neutrino) that consists of former members of HackingTeam, hackers who sold malware (malicious software) to oppressive, corrupt governments to help them identify and kill journalists or activists who appeared to challenge their power or question their rules.   HackingTeam was hacked in 2015 (workers were using passwords like P4ssword, wolverine, and universo) which is how we know so much about their ops, like how they may have placed backdoors (secret portals that give them unapproved access) into the malware they sold to oppressive regimes. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzjdz/leaked-emails-show-hacking-team-lied-to-its-rascal-customers   The acquisition announcement was made Feb 19, 2019. On Feb 26, an article highlighted the controversial background of Neutrino.   Since then, people who care about privacy, security, human rights, autonomy from government, not being murdered Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more.  — AKA basic human rights, as well as crypto values and ideals — have tweeted #deletecoinbase and deleted their CB accounts.   On March 1, Coinbase Head of Sales said during a video recorded interview that they knew the backgrounds of Neutrino and were desperate for their tech because their current blockchain analysis was “selling client data to outside sources and it was compelling for us to get control over that.” https://cheddar.com/media/coinbase-adds-support-for-ripple-s-xrp-despite-regulatory-uncertainty   This escalated the #deletecoinbase movement since this implies a concealed client data breach. Users have reported that Coinbase is not allowing them to close or delete their accounts.   On March 4, Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO) wrote a blog post which achieved the opposite effect that he was striving for -- it made people more mad. We explain why in this episode. https://blog.coinbase.com/living-up-to-our-values-and-the-neutrino-acquisition-ba98174cdcf6 On March 6, Coinbase claimed that Christine Sandler “misspoke” and there was no client data breach. On March 7, it was reported that Coinbase acquired Neutrino in a $13.5 million deal.     Tweets referenced in the episode:   Coinbase promoting storing key in the cloud https://twitter.com/CoinbaseWallet/status/1095386639105384448 Nic Carter reportedly heard Coinbase execs pushing for heavy regulation https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1075743141255364609 Kraken assessment of Neutrino as a solution https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1102346122138333184 Tuur Demeester proposed a thorough list of Qs for Coinbase to answer about the client data breach https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1102205826872287232     Follow Us!Twitter - https://twitter.com/krakenfxFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/KrakenFX/ Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kraken/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/krak...

On this edition of the Crypto.IQ Daily Radio Show we do a deep dive market analysis. Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency prices are on an uptrend this morning. Binance Coin (BNB) is particularly bullish this morning and is up over 20 percent. Hear about how Coinbase has fired employees with connections to Hacking Team, after a public backlash over Coinbase’s acquisition of blockchain forensics firm Neutrino. We discuss how Starbucks will be working with Bakkt to convert Bitcoin (BTC) to US dollars for coffee purchases, but will not be accepting actual Bitcoin (BTC). We also discuss how Kroger subsidiary Smith’s has stopped using Visa and is considering using the Bitcoin (BTC) lightning network at its 100+ stores nationwide, which would be a positive step for Bitcoin (BTC) adoption.

Is Google in the business of censorship? What are bankchains? Also, more thoughts on 9/11 nonsense, FitBits, Hacking Team, and much, much more… Special Guest: N/A Stories of the Week:--Random Access: Waze’s RideWith ride-sharing service opens in Israel, new horned dinosaur Wendiceratops, Facebook tracking flag users, Confederate flag bans on Amazon and eBay.--”Google Just Censored the World” Link: bit.ly/1LWN8mK Tech Roulette: --“Bankchains” Link: bit.ly/1Krt7Us Important Messages:--”PorcFest 2015 follow-up? 9/11? FitBits?” Tool of the Week: --”privacytools.io” Link: privacytools.io Hacksec: --”Hacking Team Hacked” Link: bit.ly/1NHWYas The Climax: --”Recent Economic Breakdowns” APPENDIX: --”Book of Satoshi” Link: adbl.co/1HAh99I --”Libreboot X200” Link: bit.ly/1FI57ew --”Complete Liberty: Inside and Out” Link: amzn.to/1IRm5Jg--”EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard” Link: bit.ly/1E3UvBw--”Dark Android Talk at PorcFest 2015” Link: youtu.be/qnw7ftEIHa4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make easy monthly donations through Patreon: www.patreon.com/sovryntech And you can tip me at: sovryntech.tip.me --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NXT: NXT-4V3J-VA4W-4EY3-GUWV2 NAMECOIN: NHfN1kpj8G9aUCCHuummBKa8mPvppN1UFa LITECOIN: LLUXwfWrKDpuK38ZnPD14K6zc6rUaRgo9W BITCOIN: 1AEiTkWiF8x6yjQbbhoU89vHHMrkzQ7o8d --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don’t forget you can e-mail the show at: brian@zomiaofflinegames.com Also at Protonmail.ch at: anarchy@protonmail.ch I’m also on Telegram: @Sovryn Minilock.io ID: 67JpL89QkmcJHC9KMGjcNy9VrwsNYDpfCQu9gKXGijVVY BitMessage: BM-NBMFb4W42CqTaonxApmUji1KNbkSESki --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can also visit our IRC channel on Freenode: #SovrynBalnea --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.sovryntech.com www.twitter.com/sovryntech plus.google.com/+BrianSovryn1i/ liberty.me/members/briansovryn/ www.facebook.com/BrianSovryn instagram.com/Bsovryn/ steamcommunity.com/id/ninjaprogram/

Is Google in the business of censorship? What are bankchains? Also, more thoughts on 9/11 nonsense, FitBits, Hacking Team, and much, much more… Special Guest: N/A Stories of the Week:--Random Access: Waze’s RideWith ride-sharing service opens in Israel, new horned dinosaur Wendiceratops, Facebook tracking flag users, Confederate flag bans on Amazon and eBay.--”Google Just Censored the World” Link: bit.ly/1LWN8mK Tech Roulette: --“Bankchains” Link: bit.ly/1Krt7Us Important Messages:--”PorcFest 2015 follow-up? 9/11? FitBits?” Tool of the Week: --”privacytools.io” Link: privacytools.io Hacksec: --”Hacking Team Hacked” Link: bit.ly/1NHWYas The Climax: --”Recent Economic Breakdowns” APPENDIX: --”Book of Satoshi” Link: adbl.co/1HAh99I --”Libreboot X200” Link: bit.ly/1FI57ew --”Complete Liberty: Inside and Out” Link: amzn.to/1IRm5Jg--”EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard” Link: bit.ly/1E3UvBw--”Dark Android Talk at PorcFest 2015” Link: youtu.be/qnw7ftEIHa4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make easy monthly donations through Patreon: www.patreon.com/sovryntech And you can tip me at: sovryntech.tip.me --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NXT: NXT-4V3J-VA4W-4EY3-GUWV2 NAMECOIN: NHfN1kpj8G9aUCCHuummBKa8mPvppN1UFa LITECOIN: LLUXwfWrKDpuK38ZnPD14K6zc6rUaRgo9W BITCOIN: 1AEiTkWiF8x6yjQbbhoU89vHHMrkzQ7o8d --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don’t forget you can e-mail the show at: brian@zomiaofflinegames.com Also at Protonmail.ch at: anarchy@protonmail.ch I’m also on Telegram: @Sovryn Minilock.io ID: 67JpL89QkmcJHC9KMGjcNy9VrwsNYDpfCQu9gKXGijVVY BitMessage: BM-NBMFb4W42CqTaonxApmUji1KNbkSESki --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can also visit our IRC channel on Freenode: #SovrynBalnea --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.sovryntech.com www.twitter.com/sovryntech plus.google.com/+BrianSovryn1i/ liberty.me/members/briansovryn/ www.facebook.com/BrianSovryn instagram.com/Bsovryn/ steamcommunity.com/id/ninjaprogram/

The battle cry #DeleteCoinbase is resounding across crypto Twitter as bitcoin users close their accounts to protest a controversial acquisition by the exchange. These users are upset with Coinbase for acquiring Neutrino because that blockchain analytics outfit’s executive suite – CEO Giancarlo Russo, CTO Alberto Ornaghi, and CRO Marco Valleri – previously spearheaded projects for the startup Hacking Team, which sold spyware to several governments known for human rights abuses.

Some called him a hero. Some called him the most dangerous man to the defense industry. In today’s ShadowTalk, Dr. Richard Gold and Harrison Van Riper join Rafael Amado to discuss the vigilante hacker known as Phineas Fisher. Leaked court documents surfaced this week, detailing how Italian authorities tried and ultimately failed to identify and convict Phineas Fisher for the infamous breach against the Italian surveillance and technology company, Hacking Team. The team dive into the history of Phineas Fisher, the techniques used to break into the Hacking Team network, and the OPSEC practices that allowed Phineas Fisher to remain at large.

Iron Group said to use Hacking Team source code to build a backdoor. Operation Prowli both cryptojacks and sells traffic. Fancy Bear may be getting noisier. VPNFilter has a more extensive set of victim devices than previously believed. ZTE pays a billion dollar fine. CloudPets are oversharing via an unsecured server. The US Senate wants answers from both Facebook and Google about their user data sharing with Chinese companies. Daniel Prince from Lancaster University on the security of Industrial Control Systems. Guests are Kyle Lady and Olabode Anise from Duo Security covering their annual report on authentication. 

Max Hoppenstedt, Thomas Rid, Joseph Cox Russia's likely interference in the US election; the hacking of extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison; a huge dump of internal documents and emails from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team. The list of prominent data breaches carried out by pseudonymous groups is long and ever growing. But there is another story that sits in between the hacks themselves, and the articles that you read: how journalists verify and attribute data breaches, and decide what to publish, and what to redact. In this panel we will explain how this delicate process, which is rarely seen by the public, plays out: what happens when a hacker approaches a journalist, how journalists verify hacked data, how much do a hacker's motivations influence a story, and how can journalists link a hack to a particular actor when attribution can be difficult? This job becomes even more important, and potentially complicated, when dealing with stories of massive political significance, like the recent, and likely Russian-driven, campaign around the US election. And as commentators expect more activity around French and potentially German elections, reporting any future incidents as ethically and responsibly as possible has a renewed sense of urgency. Never before has hacking held such a political weight; governments, societies, and the press need to lay down the groundwork for dealing with the fallout of serious data breaches.

Tercer y último programa de nuestra serie dedicada a la seguridad en el Mac. Hoy vamos a ver la seguridad informática desde una perspectiva mucho más amplia y para ello tenemos como invitado de excepción a Sergio Rodríguez Solís y Guerrero, al que podéis escuchar habitualmente en el podcast Bitácora de Ciberseguridad, de la red AVPodcast.Junto con su compañero de podcast Raúl Fernández Santos, Sergio ha fundado recientemente la empresa Proyecto Albedo, dedicada a la consultoría de seguridad para pequeña y mediana empresa. Pero antes de todo esto trabajó para empresas que proporcionaban tecnología y servicios a fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado y para la empresa de seguridad ofensiva Hacking Team. También es formador en LinkedIn Learning donde imparte cursos de seguridad.Busca los enlaces de este episodio en http://emilcar.fm/proyectomacintosh donde también esperamos tus comentarios.

Tercer y último programa de nuestra serie dedicada a la seguridad en el Mac. Hoy vamos a ver la seguridad informática desde una perspectiva mucho más amplia y para ello tenemos como invitado de excepción a Sergio Rodríguez Solís y Guerrero, al que podéis escuchar habitualmente en el podcast Bitácora de Ciberseguridad, de la red AVPodcast.Junto con su compañero de podcast Raúl Fernández Santos, Sergio ha fundado recientemente la empresa Proyecto Albedo, dedicada a la consultoría de seguridad para pequeña y mediana empresa. Pero antes de todo esto trabajó para empresas que proporcionaban tecnología y servicios a fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado y para la empresa de seguridad ofensiva Hacking Team. También es formador en LinkedIn Learning donde imparte cursos de seguridad.Busca los enlaces de este episodio en http://emilcar.fm/proyectomacintosh donde también esperamos tus comentarios.

According to a recent report by Symantec, attacks exploiting previously unknown (or zero-day) software vulnerabilities more than doubled last year. Researchers believed this spike may be caused by the Hacking Team breach, which forced several zero-day exploits into the wild. Was the recent increase in zero-days a onetime occurrence, or should we expect disclosure of […]… Read More The post Security Slice: The Zero-Day Arms Race appeared first on The State of Security.

AT&T Data Security Analysts discuss Hacking the Hacking Team, USB-C, Updating Mobile Apps, Dangers of URL Shorteners and a Security Quiz. Originally recorded April 19, 2016.

Welcome to another episode of Hack Naked TV recorded April 8th 2016. Aaron covers the Panama Papers, Cyber-Insurance, Ransomware, Hacking Team, and the Pentagon's bug bounty program.

Welcome to another episode of Hack Naked TV recorded April 8th 2016. Aaron covers the Panama Papers, Cyber-Insurance, Ransomware, Hacking Team, and the Pentagon's bug bounty program.

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In today's podcast we hear more about possible other instances of fraudulent messaging in the SWIFT financial transfer network. We discuss an active Android ransomware campaign that appears to be using old Hacking Team exploits. US DNI Clapper thinks the acceleration of encryption, post-Snowden, really hasn't been a very good thing, and calls for a balance between privacy and security. The US continues to ramp up its cyber offensive against ISIS. Joe Carrigan from the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute tells the tale of a scammer strung along.

In today's Daily Podcast we gain perspective on post-Brussels ISIS-inspired hacktivism. Developers should take care using Xcode command line development tools. The Thanatos Trojan is discovered in, and booted from, a hosting service. Analysts draws some familiar lessons from last year’s Hacking Team breach. And plaintiffs may think twice about suing Ashley Madison for alleged catphishes. Plus, Jonathan Katz from the Maryland Cybersecurity Center shares his team's research into searchable encryption.

In today's Daily Podcast we follow up with corrections to last week’s reports of Russian attacks on Sweden’s air traffic control system. The US and Russia hold talks on reducing tensions in cyberspace. The US cyber offensive against ISIS picks up its pace. Older JBoss servers are at risk of ransomware. Some M&A news in the cyber sector. And there are fresh accounts of how the Hacking Team was hacked last year. Plus, Joe Carrigan from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute warns us not to trust that free airport WiFi.

Welcome to another episode of Hack Naked TV recorded April 8th 2016. Aaron covers the Panama Papers, Cyber-Insurance, Ransomware, Hacking Team, and the Pentagon's bug bounty program.

Welcome to another episode of Hack Naked TV recorded April 8th 2016. Aaron covers the Panama Papers, Cyber-Insurance, Ransomware, Hacking Team, and the Pentagon's bug bounty program.

In today's Daily Podcast we catch up on the latest reports of the recent MedStar ransomware infestation. Mobile security company SkyCure share the results of their recent report on vulnerabilities in the medical field. DDoS also remains a problem. The FTC and IRS warn of socially engineered scams. The Panama Papers continue to name a lot of celebrities, but no new political leaders. Hacking Team loses its export license. We talk to the Johns Hopkins University's Joe Carrigan and get his expert reflections on last week's Women in CyberSecurity conference. 

In this week’s podcast, we consider the DROWN vulnerability, the apparent resurrection of Hacking Team, and new CPS guidelines for prosecuting trolls

Mac vs Windows, iPhone vs Android, detecting a Gmail hack, physicist speak revealed (a Tech Talk exclusive), Wi-Fi parabolic antennas, configuring Thunderbird email client, IP phone options (Ooma and others), Profiles in IT (Matti Makkonen, Father of Text Messaging), Ethernet adaptor for Chromecast (avoid Wi-Fi altogether), Hacking Team penetrated (Italian surveillance company that helped governments spy was hacked, techniques revealed, immediate polical fallout), Aereo update (TiVo partnership, DVR with over-the-air antenna), Idea of the Week (Bitcoin blockchain technology to track art), Siri prank (tricking someone to ask about 112, causes Siri to dial 911). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

This week we're joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts, and of course, Geeks of Doom's own TARDISBlend podcast. Our topics: Uber is driven away from France, Hacking Team gets...well, hacked, Microsoft hangs up the phone, Reddit users downvote their CEO, Han Solo gets his own anthology movie... and much much more. Headlines Uber Suspends UberPOP In France Following Turmoils And Arrests Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data Microsoft Steps Back From Smartphone Business; Cuts 7,800 Jobs Audible Book of the Week Dune by Frank Herbert Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: One Piece At A Time by Johnny Cash Hot Topics Reddit Is Revolting Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologizes, announces new role of Moderator Advocate, pledges improvements to mod tools Check Out the World's First 3-D Printed Supercar The First 3D-Printed Supercar Music Break: Welcome To My Nightmare by Alice Cooper Final Word Christopher Miller and Phil Lord to Helm Han Solo Anthology Film Unearthed: A Sony Playstation SNES The Drill Down Videos of the Week Kuratas Response to US Robot Challenge Google's Dream Robot Is Running Wild Across the Internet Google's Deep Dream Is Turning Anime into Nightmares Witness 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' Through Google's Deep Dream Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.