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Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   In this episode, Justin interviews Shadowserver Foundation Alliance Director Tod Eberle about cybersecurity. Tod tells how his background as a prosecutor led to his interest in cybersecurity, how he encountered the non-profit Shadowserver Foundation, and how he left the public sector to work with them. He explains how Shadowserver provides actionable data to alert network owners and law enforcement of network vulnerabilities that need to be mitigated. He discusses trends in malware attacks, especially in ransomware. He shares his thoughts on ransomware threats of 2025 and the years to come. He provides tips on preparing your network against ransomware.   Listen to how you can harden your organization's network against malware attacks. Key Takeaways: [:01] About RIMS and RIMScast. [:14] Public registration is open for RISKWORLD 2025! RIMS wants you to Engage Today and Embrace Tomorrow in Chicago from May 4th through May 7th. Register at RIMS.org/RISKWORLD and the link in this episode's show notes. [:33] About this episode. We will discuss cybersecurity with Tod Eberle, the Alliance Director of the Shadowserver Foundation. [:55] RIMS-CRMP Workshops! On February 19th and 20th, there will be a two-day virtual workshop for the RIMS-CRMP led by former RIMS President Chris Mandel and presented by the RIMS Greater Bluegrass Chapter, the 2024 RIMS Chapter of the Year. [1:18] The next RIMS-CRMP-FED exam course will be held from February 4th through the 6th, 2025. Links to these courses can be found through the Certification page of RIMS.org and this episode's show notes. [1:34] Virtual Workshops! Chris Hansen will return on February 11th and 12th to lead the two-day course “Claims Management”. Gail Kiyomura of The Art of Risk Consulting will host the “Fundamentals of Insurance” virtual workshop on February 19th and 20th, 2025. [1:58] On February 26th and 27th, Elise Farnham of Illumine Consulting will lead “Applying and Integrating ERM”. “Managing Data for ERM” will be hosted by Pat Saporito. That course starts on March 12th, 2025. [2:20] A link to the full schedule of virtual workshops can be found on the RIMS.org/education and RIMS.org/education/online-learning pages. A link is also in this episode's show notes. [2:31] The RIMS Legislative Summit 2025 is back! It will be held on March 19th and 20th in Washington, D.C. Join RIMS for two days of Congressional meetings, networking, and advocating on behalf of the risk management community. [2:49] This event is open for RIMS members only so if you're not a member, join now! Visit RIMS.org/advocacy for registration details. [3:02] Interview! Our guest Tod Eberle is the Alliance Director of the Shadowserver Foundation, a non-profit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the internet more secure for everyone. [3:15] Tod Eberle is with us to discuss the cybersecurity trends on his risk radar and the threats he wants risk professionals to be aware of as 2025 kicks into high gear. Shadowserver Alliance Director, Tod Eberle, welcome to RIMScast! [3:41] Justin saw that Shadowserver Foundation was promoted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and he thought it would be great to have a follow-up on his appearance there. [3:54] Tod says the National Cybersecurity Alliance is a great organization. After working together with them for a year, they invited Tod to do a webinar. It was a great experience. [4:28] Tod's background is as a career prosecutor, starting as a county prosecutor in Western Pennsylvania in 1997. In 2004, Tod became a Federal Prosecutor in Pittsburgh for the U.S. Department of Justice. [5:00] In 2014, He transitioned over to the National Security and Cybercrime section in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was at the forefront of cyber investigations by both the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI. Tod wanted to be a part of that. [5:34] The Pittsburgh office has run investigations and issued indictments against Chinese Military Intelligence officers and Russian GRU officers for hacking. In 2014, Pittsburgh had the first criminal indictment of nation-state threat actors. [6:00] In that case, Chinese Military Intelligence PLA officers hacked into Pittsburgh companies Westinghouse, ALCOA, U.S. Steel, and United Steel Workers. Some forward-thinking folks at the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office, particularly U.S. Attorney David Hickton, focused on cyber. [6:29] That continued over the years until the present. [6:46] To begin an investigation, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh, need to have some aspect of an organization's criminal activity touch that district, the Western District of Pennsylvania. A national ransomware case with one victim in Pittsburgh can be investigated. [7:16] In the investigation of Russian GRU actors responsible for the destructive NotPetya malware attack, a district hospital's network was attacked and destroyed. They expanded the investigation and charging documents to include other attacks around the country. [7:58] In 2015 Tod was a prosecutor working with the FBI on an investigation. He was at Europol at the Hague in the Netherlands, a center that brings together investigators and prosecutors from different countries who investigate the same threat group through Europol and Eurojust. [8:33] Tod met the Shadowserver Foundation non-profit group at the Hague in 2015. They were helping, through free technical support to the takedown operation, to dismantle the infrastructure of a crime group, using sinkholing and other security measures. [9:08] Tod Joined the Shadowserver Foundation in January of 2023. He is the Shadowserver Alliance Director. As a small non-profit, everyone wears many hats. The Shadowserver Foundation is a 501(c)(3) in the U.S. and a separate non-profit legal entity in the Netherlands. [9:47] The Shadowserver Foundation started about 2004. It celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2024. It began as a loose group of volunteers made up of cybersecurity researchers and technical experts who came together to help network owners and law enforcement. [10:15] Over the years they became more structured and became a non-profit organization. It's an unusual non-profit organization working 100% in operations. It works in three core areas. First, it's the world's largest provider of free, actionable cyber threat intelligence. [10:45] Second, the Shadowserver Foundation does cybersecurity capacity-building around the world. Third, it also provides free support to law enforcement investigations and disruption operations with technical support and expertise. Those three things are its core mission. [11:07] Justin notes commonalities between RIMS cyber risk reporting and the Shadowserver Foundation's work. Shadowserver collects a vast amount of threat data daily. What are the patterns it sees for 2025? [11:29] Shadowserver Foundation can help organizations mitigate risks. It collects cyber threat data at its data center in California through internet-wide scanning, honeypot sensors, sinkholing operations, and collecting and analyzing malware samples. [11:57] Every day for free the Shadowserver Foundation takes that data and provides it to over 9,000 organizations around the world and to 201 National C-CERTs that cover about 176 countries. [12:13] These reports identify exposed, misconfigured, vulnerable, compromised instances or devices on networks that need patching. [12:25] The organizations that get Shadowserver's data can be anything from banks to hospitals, universities, K-12 school districts, ISPs, local, state, and federal governments, small, medium, and large businesses, Fortune 500s, and NGOs; just about anyone can sign up. [12:46] The idea behind this is that cyber security should be available to everyone, regardless of the ability to pay. Organizations can sign up at the Shadowserver Foundation website, and provide their contact information and network information with IP ranges and ASNs. [13:12] The Shadowserver Foundation does its due diligence and if everything checks out, it automates those reports to go out to the organization daily. About 9,000 organizations sign up directly to receive daily reports. [13:22] The Shadowserver Foundation also sends out data for entire countries to the national C-CERT designated to handle that in those countries. In the U.S., CISA gets hundreds of millions of events from them every day for all the U.S. It is the same around the world. [13:52] Tod says that some things never change. Networks are breached primarily through phishing attacks, malicious links or attachments, and social engineering. [14:09] One trend is a focus on vulnerabilities. Criminals exploit vulnerabilities in the network that aren't timely patched and before they are patched. Shadowserver gives organizations an external snapshot view of their networks just as criminals are scanning for themselves. [14:52] Cybercriminal groups increasingly leverage zero-day vulnerabilities to breach a network. A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software or hardware that's unknown to the vendor and has no patch. The vendor has had zero days to fix the vulnerability after it has been discovered. [15:16] That was the case with the Clop ransomware gang. In 2024, they started exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Fortra's GoAnywhere software. That continued in May, with them exploiting Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer application. [15:38] Very recently, in December, the Clop Ransomware group claimed responsibility for using a zero-day vulnerability in Clio's file transfer platform that breached victims' networks. [15:49] Cyber criminals extort victims and steal data with ransomware attacks. Risk managers in cybersecurity need to stay on top of critical vulnerabilities that often go unpatched. Those are often the easiest gateway into a network. [16:26] Plug Time! RIMS Webinars! Resolver will be joining us on February 6th to discuss “4 Themes Shaping the Future of GRC in 2025”. [16:38] HUB International continues its Ready for Tomorrow Series with RIMS. On February 20th, they will host “Ready for the Unexpected? Strategies for Property Valuation, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in 2025”. [16:54] More webinars will be announced soon and added to the RIMS.org/webinars page. Go there to register. Registration is complimentary for RIMS members. [17:06] Nominations are also open for the Donald M. Stuart Award which recognizes excellence in risk management in Canada. Links are in this episode's show notes. [17:17] The Spencer Educational Foundation's goal to help build a talent pipeline of risk management and insurance professionals is achieved in part by its collaboration with risk management and insurance educators across the U.S. and Canada. [17:35] Since 2010, Spencer has awarded over $3.3 million in general grants to support over 130 student-centered experiential learning initiatives at universities and RMI non-profits. Spencer's 2026 application process will open on May 1st, 2025, and close on July 30th, 2025. [17:58] General grant awardees are typically notified at the end of October. Learn more about Spencer's general grants through the Programs tab at SpencerEd.org. [18:08] Let's Return to the Conclusion of My Interview with Tod Eberle of Shadowserver! [18:49] Justin notes that In December of 2024, China attackers breached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. That is the government office that assesses foreign investments for national security risks. [18:58] China also targeted the Treasury's Sanctions Office after it sanctioned a Chinese company for its alleged role in cyberattacks. [19:14] Tod thinks we should acknowledge that this is nothing new and nothing we should be surprised about. It's been going on for many years and it's going to continue. Justin was in the Federal government in 2013 and 2014. [19:32] In 2015, it was announced that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had been breached. Personal sensitive data for 42 million people were stolen. [19:44] In May 2014, five Chinese military officers were indicted for computer hacking and economic espionage against companies based in Pittsburgh. This is nothing out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, indictments don't seem to have a deterrent effect. [20:21] Countries can deny the charges of hacking even with strong evidence of their involvement. [20:37] There are different types of hacking, with different types of motivation. There is traditional espionage against U.S. government agencies. There is theft of intellectual property with nation-states trying to gain a commercial advantage in business. [21:23] There are destructive hacks by nation-state actors, like the NotPetya attack, or attacks on the Ukrainian power grid and banking systems in 2015 and 2016. [21:36] The Volt Typhoon threat actor group and its access to the U.S. critical infrastructure is one of the greatest national security concerns because of its potential to disrupt everything from water to power, to food, to transportation. [22:10] The ripple effect that can come from those disruptions would be enormous. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack of a few years ago affected fuel supplies, commerce, and the prices of goods. [22:31] Nation-state hacking is no longer just a concern for government agencies and companies that do business internationally, but it's now a concern for all of society. There's the potential to affect the daily lives of innocent civilians through attacks on critical infrastructure. [23:16] Tod mentions another 2014 indictment out of Pittsburgh, on the GameOver Zeus Botnet takedown. Part of that was a crypto locker ransomware disruption. This was in the infancy of ransomware, for $300 ransoms. Now ransom demands are in the tens of millions of dollars. [23:53] We have seen a huge evolution in ransomware. It's not going away. One thing we're seeing is bypassing data encryption and focusing on data theft. It's easier and less time-consuming for the threat actors because they don't have to map out the network. [24:41] If a victim company had good backups and easy restoration, that was an issue ransomware actors had to deal with, so why would the threat actors bother with that? They just focus on easy data theft and extortion of ransom for the data. [25:04] Tod thinks we will continue to see extortion. Ransomware continues to be the greatest concern for companies. The use of AI has been increasing both for defenders and attackers.  [25:14] A new ransomware group, FunkSec, is claiming large numbers of victims of extortion, encryption, and data theft. They seem to have ransom demands of less than $10,000. They have sold stolen data. Researchers think this is a less experienced group using AI to write code. [27:22] Shadowserver's very talented team collects the data. It's free. They want to get it into the hands of those who can use it. The reports identify things that are seen to be misconfigured or unnecessarily exposed to the internet. Sometimes they can show if something is compromised. [28:12] Shadowserver designates the events by severity level so the end user can prioritize their patching and address first the ones that are most critical and severe. The reports act both as an early warning system and a victim notification system if a device is seen to be compromised. [28:59] The network owner needs to remediate that and patch it before further exploitation like a ransomware attack can occur. [29:07] Shadowserver has two ways to detect that a device is compromised. The first is if they have indicators that tell them a device on the network is compromised. The second is with their support for law enforcement, law enforcement may share sensitive data with Shadowserve. [29:32] When law enforcement does a takedown and they get victim identification data like IP addresses, they must do victim notification. Law enforcement isn't scaled to do victim notification for hundreds of thousands of users. Shadowserver helps them with notifications. [30:48] Shadowserver is very careful to share data responsibly. Company A will get the data they have for Company A and it won't be shared with Company B and vice versa. Shadowserver views the data as belonging to that network owner. [31:08] If a company authorizes Shadowserver and wants them to share their data with a third party, Shadowserver will happily do it. There are several companies with MSSPs to manage their security. If the company asks, Shadowserver will send the data to their MSSP. [31:43] As a small, non-profit organization, not everyone has heard of the Shadowserver Foundation. They want people to know they have this data and they want to share it. It could be relevant for cyber insurance companies' due diligence, with the insurance applicant's consent. [32:20] It's important because those reports can show whether a network has remained healthy and secure over time. Tod would love to see Shadowserver be able to help more in the risk mitigation areas. [32:56] Special thanks again to Shadowserver Foundation's Tod Eberle for joining us here on RIMScast! Check out this episode's show notes for links to the Shadowserver reports we mentioned. [33:07] Be sure to tune in next week for Data Privacy Day! We've got a special episode with James Burd, Chief Privacy Officer of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). That's going to be a good one! [33:22] More RIMS Plugs! You can sponsor a RIMScast episode for this, our weekly show, or a dedicated episode. Links to sponsored episodes are in our show notes. 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The Kinahan Cartel's connection to the Russian GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) is part of the wider narrative surrounding transnational organized crime networks and their links to state actors or paramilitary organizations. The Kinahan Cartel, an Irish organized crime syndicate, has expanded its operations across Europe and beyond, dealing in drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering. Their connections to the Russian GRU primarily revolve around the facilitation of arms deals and drug smuggling routes.Arms Trafficking: The Kinahan Cartel, seeking to secure weapons for their operations and conflicts, is believed to have sourced arms from Russian-controlled suppliers, potentially involving actors tied to the GRU. These arms deals may have included small arms, explosives, and other military-grade weaponry, enabling the cartel to maintain its violent operations.Drug Smuggling Routes: Russia has been implicated in facilitating drug trafficking networks through its connections to criminal organizations, and the GRU's involvement is often speculated in these operations. The Kinahan Cartel has exploited these routes, working alongside Russian-organized crime to move narcotics, particularly cocaine, from South America to European markets, often using ports and smuggling routes influenced or controlled by Russian elements.Money Laundering: The Kinahan Cartel, like many transnational criminal organizations, engages in money laundering schemes to hide their illicit profits. Connections to Russian entities, possibly with GRU protection, have enabled the Kinahans to funnel money through offshore accounts, shell companies, and other financial structures linked to Eastern European markets.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan Cartel's connection to the Russian GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) is part of the wider narrative surrounding transnational organized crime networks and their links to state actors or paramilitary organizations. The Kinahan Cartel, an Irish organized crime syndicate, has expanded its operations across Europe and beyond, dealing in drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering. Their connections to the Russian GRU primarily revolve around the facilitation of arms deals and drug smuggling routes.Arms Trafficking: The Kinahan Cartel, seeking to secure weapons for their operations and conflicts, is believed to have sourced arms from Russian-controlled suppliers, potentially involving actors tied to the GRU. These arms deals may have included small arms, explosives, and other military-grade weaponry, enabling the cartel to maintain its violent operations.Drug Smuggling Routes: Russia has been implicated in facilitating drug trafficking networks through its connections to criminal organizations, and the GRU's involvement is often speculated in these operations. The Kinahan Cartel has exploited these routes, working alongside Russian-organized crime to move narcotics, particularly cocaine, from South America to European markets, often using ports and smuggling routes influenced or controlled by Russian elements.Money Laundering: The Kinahan Cartel, like many transnational criminal organizations, engages in money laundering schemes to hide their illicit profits. Connections to Russian entities, possibly with GRU protection, have enabled the Kinahans to funnel money through offshore accounts, shell companies, and other financial structures linked to Eastern European markets.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan Cartel's connection to the Russian GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) is part of the wider narrative surrounding transnational organized crime networks and their links to state actors or paramilitary organizations. The Kinahan Cartel, an Irish organized crime syndicate, has expanded its operations across Europe and beyond, dealing in drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering. Their connections to the Russian GRU primarily revolve around the facilitation of arms deals and drug smuggling routes.Arms Trafficking: The Kinahan Cartel, seeking to secure weapons for their operations and conflicts, is believed to have sourced arms from Russian-controlled suppliers, potentially involving actors tied to the GRU. These arms deals may have included small arms, explosives, and other military-grade weaponry, enabling the cartel to maintain its violent operations.Drug Smuggling Routes: Russia has been implicated in facilitating drug trafficking networks through its connections to criminal organizations, and the GRU's involvement is often speculated in these operations. The Kinahan Cartel has exploited these routes, working alongside Russian-organized crime to move narcotics, particularly cocaine, from South America to European markets, often using ports and smuggling routes influenced or controlled by Russian elements.Money Laundering: The Kinahan Cartel, like many transnational criminal organizations, engages in money laundering schemes to hide their illicit profits. Connections to Russian entities, possibly with GRU protection, have enabled the Kinahans to funnel money through offshore accounts, shell companies, and other financial structures linked to Eastern European markets.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan Cartel's connection to the Russian GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) is part of the wider narrative surrounding transnational organized crime networks and their links to state actors or paramilitary organizations. The Kinahan Cartel, an Irish organized crime syndicate, has expanded its operations across Europe and beyond, dealing in drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and money laundering. Their connections to the Russian GRU primarily revolve around the facilitation of arms deals and drug smuggling routes.Arms Trafficking: The Kinahan Cartel, seeking to secure weapons for their operations and conflicts, is believed to have sourced arms from Russian-controlled suppliers, potentially involving actors tied to the GRU. These arms deals may have included small arms, explosives, and other military-grade weaponry, enabling the cartel to maintain its violent operations.Drug Smuggling Routes: Russia has been implicated in facilitating drug trafficking networks through its connections to criminal organizations, and the GRU's involvement is often speculated in these operations. The Kinahan Cartel has exploited these routes, working alongside Russian-organized crime to move narcotics, particularly cocaine, from South America to European markets, often using ports and smuggling routes influenced or controlled by Russian elements.Money Laundering: The Kinahan Cartel, like many transnational criminal organizations, engages in money laundering schemes to hide their illicit profits. Connections to Russian entities, possibly with GRU protection, have enabled the Kinahans to funnel money through offshore accounts, shell companies, and other financial structures linked to Eastern European markets.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

PREVIEW: #CUBA: excerpt from a conversation with colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady of WSJ re the mystery of the "Havana Syndrome," dating to 2016, and both affirmed and denied since -- and now the  latest clues of a Russian GRU unit and an energy weapon: here is Mary O'Ogrady on what we have so far and crediting an investigation in Florida.  More in the coming weeks, months. https://www.wsj.com/articles/havana-syndrome-revisited-cuba-russia-kremlin-us-intelligence-polymeropoulos-brain-diagnosis-28506aa1 1962 Soviet missile sites on Cuba

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024Today, the Florida Supreme Court has allowed the six week abortion ban to go into effect but has also ruled that abortion access will be on the ballot this november; Jack Smith's response to Judge Aileen Cannon's weird jury instruction order is due; Hope Hicks is expected to testify in the Manhattan DA election interference hush money trial; Truth Social stock tanks after abysmal regulatory filing; a vehicle has rammed into the entry gate of the Atlanta FBI Field Office; Republicans have texted and emailed their way into a big money problem; Rep. Don Bacon says it's possible that Mike Johnson could lose his speakership over Ukraine aid; a third employee of that small newspaper in Kansas has sued over the police raid; a Ted Cruz PAC got over $600K from iHeartradio; new evidence links the Russian GRU to the Havana Syndrome; plus Allison and Dana deliver your good news.  Promo Codes:Get 20% off all mattress orders plus 2 free pillows at HelixSleep.com/dailybeans with code HELIXPARTNER20.Florida Supreme Court allows 6-week abortion ban to take effect, but voters will have the final sayTrump's former spokesperson Hope Hicks expected to testify in his hush money trial: Sources - ABC NewsTrump's Truth Social stock tanks after new SEC filings reveal $58m loss in 2023 | The IndependentRep. Don Bacon: 'It's possible' Mike Johnson could lose speakership over UkraineThird lawsuit issue filed following newspaper raid in Marion, KansasCruz PAC got $630K from iHeartUnraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their familiesSubscribe to Lawyers, Guns, And MoneyAd-free premium feed: https://lawyersgunsandmoney.supercast.comSubscribe for free everywhere else:https://lawyersgunsandmoney.simplecast.com/episodes/1-miami-1985Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Follow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Follow Mueller, She Wrote on Posthttps://post.news/@/MuellerSheWrote?utm_source=TwitterAG&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=muellershewrote&utm_content=FollowMehttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good News:NOLA Facehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/nola-face-a-latina-s-life-in-the-big-easy-brooke-champagne/20915463?ean=9780820366531Mis Taconeshttps://linktr.ee/mistaconespdxUpcoming Live Show Dateshttps://allisongill.com (tickets and show dates) Live Show Ticket Links:Chicago, IL https://tinyurl.com/Beans-ChiPhiladelphia, PA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-PhillyNew York, NY https://tinyurl.com/Beans-NYCBoston, MA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-BosPortland, ORhttps://tinyurl.com/Beans-PDXSeattle, WAhttps://tinyurl.com/Beans-SEA Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/OrPatreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

André Pienaar is the Chief Executive and the Founder of C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and energy security with offices in Washington DC, London, Luxembourg and Vienna. He joins John to explain his recent assertion that Zuma's new political party, MK, poses a threat to South Africa's democracy, sponsored by foreign interests, particularly the Russian GRU.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forecast = Advanced Persistent Thunderstorms In this episode of Storm⚡️Watch, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of cybersecurity in 2024. The episode kicks off with a thought-provoking roundtable discussion, pondering the potential theme song of 2024, setting the tone for a year that's already shaping up to be full of significant cybersecurity developments. We then transition into a comprehensive analysis of recent cybersecurity events and trends that are shaping the digital world. First on the agenda is the international police operation that successfully disrupted the notorious Lockbit cybercrime gang, a significant victory in the ongoing battle against cybercrime. This is followed by an exploration of the Justice Department's court-authorized disruption of a botnet controlled by the Russian GRU, highlighting the global efforts to combat state-sponsored cyberthreats. The episode also delves into the discovery of new vulnerabilities within SolarWinds' software, some of which are unauthorized, underscoring the persistent challenges in securing widely used software platforms. The discussion then shifts to a series of high-profile hacks and leaks, including the Shanghai Anxun/I-SOON hack/leak and a significant state government leak and hack, illustrating the diverse nature of cyber threats facing organizations today. The episode emphasizes the critical need for security vendors to adopt Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and a resilient Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), through the lens of Eclypsium's teardown of Ivanti. Additionally, the episode features Rezonate's guide to hardening Okta's security posture, offering practical advice for enhancing cybersecurity defenses. In company news, GreyNoise celebrates the appointment of a new CEO and shares insights from the Grimoire blog on CVE-2021-44529, further demonstrating the company's commitment to advancing cybersecurity knowledge. The episode concludes with a roundup of recent tags, active campaigns, and a discussion on the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog from CISA, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the current cybersecurity landscape and actionable insights for enhancing their security posture. Episode Slides >> Storm Watch Homepage >> Learn more about GreyNoise >>  

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them.As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them.As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

Ursula Kuczynski, AKA Agent Sonya, is one history's most effective spies. As an intelligence gatherer for the Soviet military, she helped to usher in the age of Mutually Assured Destruction during the bloody 1940s. In 2020, a newly declassified document muddied the waters - who was Sonya really working for? In this two-part True Spies story, a new theory deepens the mystery of her life and work. In Part 1, Sophia Di Martino joins Professor Anthony Glees to follow Sonya's rise to prominence within the Russian GRU. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Hannah Dean. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Justin sits down with Naveed Jamali. Naveed is currently an editor at large for Newsweek, where he reports on national security issues. Naveed grew up in New York City, where his parents owned a small business selling technical journals and other hard to find publications. This inadvertently put them in touch with Russian agents working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet mission to the United Nations, who were constantly seeking information on American research and development across a wide variety of issues. And it led Naveed himself to become the linchpin in an amazing FBI operation to catch one of these Russian agents in an act of espionage. Today he discusses his time as a double agent working for both the FBI and the Russian GRU.Connect with Naveed:Twitter: @NaveedAJamaliIG: @navjamaliThreads: @navjamaliCatch Unconventional here.https://www.newsweek.com/unconventional/naveedjamaliCheck out Naveed's book, How To Catch a Russian Spy, here.https://www.amazon.com/How-Catch-Russian-Spy-American/dp/1476788820#:~:text=How%20to%20Catch%20a%20Russian%20Spy%20is%20the%20one%2Dof,Miami%20Vice%20and%20Magnum%20P.I.Connect with Spycraft 101:Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here.spycraft101.comIG: @spycraft101Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.comPatreon: Spycraft 101Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.A podcast from SPYSCAPE.A History of the World in Spy Objects Incredible tools and devices and their real-world use.Support the show

https://youtu.be/NLO0DYuTZp4 This week on the podcast, we cover the FBI-lead, multinational takedown of the Qakbot botnet of over 700,000 victim devices. After that, we cover two android malware variants including one targeting victims in southeast Asia and another built by the Russian GRU.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presented the story of five CTI analysts who investigated a DDoS attack on Finnish government institutions in April 2022. The incident led to the discovery of a potential link between that DDoS attack and an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice involving the dismantling of a dangerous Russian malware that is capable of creating and deploying a global botnet. The malware, suspected to be under the control of the Russian GRU, was proactively purged from global computer networks by a U.S. government agency.Support the show

A Russian GRU operative posing as a Brazilian student in the U.S. was arrested, after the FBI and the CIA kept tabs on him for years. Moscow retaliated and detained American journalist Evan Gershkovich on trumped-up charges of espionage.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. In this episode we discuss the specifics of Sergey Cherkasov's arrest: Sergey is a Russian spy, an illegal, arrested by the Danish authorities in Brazil. If you like our content, please become a patron to get all our episodes ad-free. Cherkasov's legend – a made-up bio created by the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service – presented him as Victor Muller Ferreira, a Brazilian student in his late 20s. In reality, Sergey is 33 and a spy. Using fake documents, he managed to obtain a post graduate diploma from John Hopkins University. He then was offered a junior analyst position at the International Criminal Court, the same institution that recently issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes in Ukraine. The CIA and the FBI had been keeping tabs on him for a while, so he was arrested in Brazil in April 2022 and will spend the next 15 years in prison. 1 The Russian spy story broke on March 26 in The Guardian, and just 4 days later, on March 30, 2023, the Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested near Moscow. Not a coincidence, this was probably payback for the public embarrassment the Russian intelligence services are facing after a very sloppy operative they trained was caught. 2 Evan Gershkovich, a thirty-one-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal is the son of Soviet-born émigrés who came to the U.S. in the late seventies. He was detained while on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a city 800 miles east of Moscow. The next day, he was brought to Moscow, formally charged with espionage in a closed hearing, and ordered to be held in Lefortovo Prison awaiting trial. Evan Gershkovich is accredited to work as a journalist in Russia by the country's foreign ministry. 3 1. Greg Miller. He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.. The Washington Post. March 2023. ⇤2. Joshua Yaffa. The Unimaginable Horror of a Friend's Arrest in Moscow. The New Yorker. March 2023. ⇤3. Daniel Michaels, Vivian Salama, and Jared Malsin. White House Condemns Russia's Detention of Wall Street Journal Reporter. The Wall Street Journal. March 2023. ⇤4. Greg Botelho. Dangerous diplomacy: A look at U.S. diplomats killed in the line of duty. CNN. March 2015. ⇤

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The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them.As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now.(commercial at 10:55)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

On this episode of Espresso Martini, Chris and Matt look at the critical stories from November in the world of espionage, geopolitics and intrigue.  They discuss the Crimean Bridge Attack, infighting among Putin's allies, a Russian GRU officer who defected to Estonia, a spy trial at the Old Bailey and the hit Star Wars espionage series Andor. Links to the articles discussed are below. How Ukraine blew up the bridge - By James Glanz and Marco Hernandez – New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/world/europe/crimea-bridge-collapse.html The BBC on October 9th published an article By Paul Adamstitled “Crimean Bridge; Who or what caused the explosion” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63192757 Civil War among Putin Allies – Isabel Van Brugen - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/leaked-fsb-letters-civial-war-putin-allies-prigozhin-kadyrov-1760455 Russian Spy Defects – Michael Weiss – Yahoo News https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html?guccounter=1 British embassy security guard David Smith admits spying for Russia – Gordon Corera  British embassy security guard David Smith admits spying for Russia - BBC News Swedish brothers charged as spies for Russia – Phelan Chatterjee BBC  Swedish brothers charged as spies for Russia - BBC News China & Iran hire PI's to spy on dissidents in US -  By Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum – New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/nyregion/china-iran-private-detectives.html China's new satellite hunting radar – Gabriel Honrada – Asia Times https://asiatimes.com/2022/11/chinas-new-satellite-hunting-radar-aims-to-blind-us/ Spy Among Friends – 8th Dec ITV X & BritBox in UK – MGM Plus in 2023 https://cultbox.co.uk/news/start-dates/a-spy-among-friends-trailer-for-the-drama-which-launches-itvx Andor - Available on Disney +  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_(TV_series) Music on this podcast is provided by Andrew R. Bird (Andy Bird) You can check out his work here: https://soundcloud.com/andrewbirduk For more information about the podcast, check out our website: https://secretsandspiespodcast.com/  Secrets and Spies is part of the Spy Podcast Network. Check out our other excellent spy-related podcasts here: https://www.spypodcasts.com/  You can support Secrets and Spies in a few ways:    * Subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDVB23lrHr3KFeXq4VU36dg * Become a “Friend of the podcast”  on Patreon for £3 www.patreon.com/SecretsAndSpies * You can buy merchandise from our shop: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/60934996?asc=u Connect with us on social media  TWITTER twitter.com/SecretsAndSpies  FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/secretsandspies    Check out our short spy film “THE DRY CLEANER” which is now available to buy on Apple TV & Amazon Prime.  Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/j_KFTJenrz4

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them.As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them.As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now.(commercial at 10:51)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Stock markets see big falls as economy fears grow Trump pressed, threatened Pence to overturn election, panel hears Apple battery row Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action New report raises questions about Clarence Thomas wife Ginni Thomas Lavrov Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed New Mexico county official convicted of January 6 trespassing refuses to certify 2022 primary results based on debunked conspiracy As Montana reels from floods, no one is sure where Gov. Gianforte is DeSantis defends Florida opposition to vaccines for kids under 5 Russian GRU spy tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court Im so deeply sorry Wife of shooter who killed 2 El Monte officers speaks out January 6 hearing Trump pressed Pence in illegal bid to quash vote Theres no longer any need for the Jan. 6 committee to issue a criminal referral Powerful smoke twister spotted in Arizona Jan. 6 hearing Pro Trump lawyer sought pardon after pushing plan to overturn election US led coalition capture senior IS leader in north Syria raid Three American fighters reported missing in Ukraine Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to five criminal charges in federal court Kim Kardashian More damage seen on Marilyn Monroe gown after Met Gala Ukraine war EU leaders back immediate candidate status for Kyiv

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Theres no longer any need for the Jan. 6 committee to issue a criminal referral Powerful smoke twister spotted in Arizona DeSantis defends Florida opposition to vaccines for kids under 5 New Mexico county official convicted of January 6 trespassing refuses to certify 2022 primary results based on debunked conspiracy Three American fighters reported missing in Ukraine US led coalition capture senior IS leader in north Syria raid Kim Kardashian More damage seen on Marilyn Monroe gown after Met Gala Apple battery row Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action New report raises questions about Clarence Thomas wife Ginni Thomas Stock markets see big falls as economy fears grow Russian GRU spy tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court January 6 hearing Trump pressed Pence in illegal bid to quash vote Jan. 6 hearing Pro Trump lawyer sought pardon after pushing plan to overturn election Ukraine war EU leaders back immediate candidate status for Kyiv Trump pressed, threatened Pence to overturn election, panel hears As Montana reels from floods, no one is sure where Gov. Gianforte is Lavrov Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to five criminal charges in federal court Im so deeply sorry Wife of shooter who killed 2 El Monte officers speaks out

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv New report raises questions about Clarence Thomas wife Ginni Thomas Apple battery row Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action Jan. 6 hearing Pro Trump lawyer sought pardon after pushing plan to overturn election Stock markets see big falls as economy fears grow Im so deeply sorry Wife of shooter who killed 2 El Monte officers speaks out Ukraine war EU leaders back immediate candidate status for Kyiv Trump pressed, threatened Pence to overturn election, panel hears Three American fighters reported missing in Ukraine As Montana reels from floods, no one is sure where Gov. Gianforte is Kim Kardashian More damage seen on Marilyn Monroe gown after Met Gala January 6 hearing Trump pressed Pence in illegal bid to quash vote Theres no longer any need for the Jan. 6 committee to issue a criminal referral New Mexico county official convicted of January 6 trespassing refuses to certify 2022 primary results based on debunked conspiracy Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to five criminal charges in federal court US led coalition capture senior IS leader in north Syria raid DeSantis defends Florida opposition to vaccines for kids under 5 Lavrov Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed Powerful smoke twister spotted in Arizona Russian GRU spy tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them. As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now. (commercial at 9:11)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

The Kinahan cartel has been feeling the pressure as of late and their options as far as who they can trust are certainly dwindling. One of their partners, however, remains a constant. The Russian GRU has helped facilitate the drug operations of the Kinahans across Europe according to new reports and they continue to actively assist them. As many other avenues have closed for the Kinahan's, they can still rely on the GRU. At least for now. (commercial at 9:11)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-working-with-russian-fbi-to-move-drugs-across-europe-expert-reveals-41674802.html

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: Israel Ministry of Defence is denying a lot of spyware export licences Private detective in New York pleads guilty over BellTroX shenanigans Scammers enrol stolen credit cards into Apple Pay The Blackcat ransomware crew is very active right now VirusTotal shells lol Much, much more This week's sponsor interview is with Okta's Brett Winterford, who talks in detail about the company's brush with the Lapsus$ hacking crew. It's unusual for a sponsor interview to be a must listen, but here we are. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that's your thing. Show notes Export controls strangling Israel's cyberattack industry - Globes Israeli charged in global hacker-for-hire scheme pleads guilty | Reuters Criminals Abuse Apple Pay in Spending Sprees Wealthy cybercriminals are using zero-day hacks more than ever | MIT Technology Review Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code – Krebs on Security FBI: 60 organizations worldwide hit with BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future FBI warns agricultural sector of heightened risk of ransomware attacks Russia's war on Ukraine making life difficult for Russian cybercriminals In a first, Treasury Department sanctions major cryptocurrency mining firm Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure | CISA (6) Rewards for Justice on Twitter: "REWARD! Up to $10M for information on 6 Russian GRU hackers. They targeted U.S. critical infrastructure with malicious cyber ops. Send us info on their activities via our Dark Web-based tips line at: https://t.co/WvkI416g4W https://t.co/oZCKNHU3fY https://t.co/u1NMAZ9HQl" / Twitter Foreign Malicious Cyber Activity Against U.S. Critical Infrastructure – Rewards For Justice From the front lines of ‘the first real cyberwar' - The Record by Recorded Future CySource virus total blog (3) Bernardo Quintero on Twitter: "for transparency purposes, this was my internal reply on May 21, 2021 at 03:09PM https://t.co/WR3QTRlxDc" / Twitter Critical bug could have let hackers commandeer millions of Android devices | Ars Technica Hot patch for Log4Shell vulnerability in AWS allowed full host takeover | The Daily Swig Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries | Ars Technica Brokers' sales of U.S. military personnel data overseas stir national security fears Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram Hacked, NFTs Worth Millions Stolen A Crypto Entrepreneur Is on the Lam After Dev Jailed for North Korea Trip Okta Concludes its Investigation Into the January 2022 Compromise | Okta Risky Business News | Substack

Heard on the Baltimore waterfront. Privateering against Western brands. An update on sanctions and counter sanctions. Stonefly, straight outta Pyongyang. Lazarus is also back (and not in the good way). Richard Hummel from NETSCOUT discusses their bi-annual Threat Intel Report. Jon DiMaggio from Analyst1 joins us to discuss his new book, “The Art of Cyberwarfare - An Investigator's Guide to Espionage, Ransomware, and Organized Cybercrime.” And the US Department of State has added six Russian GRU officers to its Rewards for Justice program. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/81 Selected reading. Britain says Ukraine controls majority of its airspace (Reuters)  Latest strikes on Russia hint daring Ukraine is not intimidated by the Kremlin (The Telegraph)  West gearing up to help Ukraine for ‘long haul', says US defence secretary (the Guardian)  U.S., allies promise to keep backing Ukraine in its war with Russia (Washington Post)  Russia-linked hackers claim to have breached Coca-Cola Company (CyberNews) Stormous ransomware gang claims to have hacked Coca-Cola (Security Affairs)  Chinese drone-maker DJI quits Russia and Ukraine (Register)  Russia to Cut Gas to Poland and Bulgaria, Making Energy a Weapon (Bloomberg)  Russia cuts off gas to Poland, Bulgaria, stoking tensions with E.U. over Ukraine (Washington Post)  Why Russia's Economy Is Holding On (Foreign Policy)  Stonefly: North Korea-linked Spying Operation Continues to Hit High-value Targets (Symantec) A "Naver"-ending game of Lazarus APT (Zscaler) U.S. offers $10 mln reward for information on Russian intelligence officers -State Dept (Reuters) US offering $10 million for info on Russian military hackers accused of NotPetya attacks (The Record by Recorded Future)  Rewards for Justice – Reward Offer for Information on Russian Military Intelligence Officers Conducting Malicious Activity Against U.S. Critical Infrastructure - United States Department of State (United States Department of State)

CISA, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have identified that the actor known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear is using a new malware, Cyclops Blink. CISA, the NCSC, and the FBI have previously attributed the Sandworm actor to the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate's Russian (GRU's) Main Centre for Special Technologies. AA22-054A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations Cyclops Blink Malware Analysis Report All organizations should report incidents and anomalous activity to CISA's 24/7 Operations Center at central@cisa.dhs.gov or (888) 282-0870 and to the FBI via your local FBI field office or the FBI's 24/7 CyWatch at (855) 292-3937 or CyWatch@fbi.gov.

Photo:   The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, abbreviated G.U., formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.  Unit 29155 is a Russian (GRU) unit tasked with foreign assassinations and other activities aimed at destabilizing European countries 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

Roman Dobrokhotov, the editor-in-chief of the investigative outlet The Insider, was reportedly planning to leave Russia on July 28. But at 7:30 in the morning, the police came knocking at his door. Law enforcement raided Dobrokhotov's apartment, seizing not only his electronic devices but also his international passport. The Insider believes the raid is in connection with a libel case initiated on behalf of Max van der Werff - a Dutch blogger who The Insider has linked to the Russian GRU. Roman Dobrokhotov's lawyer says the journalist is currently considered a witness in the case. The raid on Dobrokhotov's home comes less than a week after the Russian Justice Ministry designated The Insider as a "foreign agent." Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/07/28/the-police-are-knocking

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Picture of the Week. "PrintNightmare" is NOT CVE-2021-1675. The Authentication Dilemma. Western Digital steps up. WD's MyCloud OS3 Troubles. SpinRite. Miscellany & Closing The Loop. The Kaysea Saga. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-826-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Bitwarden.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

Topic: Using Intelligence Analysis in InfoSec: Think Globally and Act Locally In episode 48 of The Cyber5, we are joined by Rick Doten. Rick is VP of Information Security at Centene Corporation and consults as CISO for Carolina Complete Health. We discuss shifting the operating model of threat hunting and intelligence to a more collaborative model, “think globally and act locally.” We then dive deep into the intelligence analysis for collecting and analyzing the vast array of network data to prioritize network protection. Finally, Rick makes an argument for the outsourcing of an intelligence function as a viable model.  5 Topics Covered in this Episode: Security Operations Integrating with Cloud, Applications, and Mobile: (01:00 - 06:00) Security operations involve integration with key elements of the business such as the cloud, applications, and mobile team. Risks to a container are much different from a server and force security operations to integrate with many teams, especially in large enterprises. This will guide how we protect proactively with alerting and reactively with incident response.  Using Intelligence Analysis with Information Security Data Collection (06:00 - 08:52) Intelligence includes tracking specific campaigns of threat actors, their intentions, and capabilities. Intelligence analysis in the disciplines of information security is linking the human to the malicious act. For example, suppose a criminal threat actor uses email phishing and credential harvesting. In that case, the data collection model and instrumentation will be different than looking at actors who use exposed RDP or take advantage of supply chain risks. It will also be very different from a nation-state actor who is known to go “low and slow” and persist in 10 different places in a network.  Value of Attribution and Communicating to the Board of Directors: (08:52 - 13:26) The mindset of keeping confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information safe and not wanting to attribute the threat actors and building appropriate threat models is becoming more antiquated. Understanding the human who perpetrated the act is critical. Their job is to break into a network and collect and/or monetize. This used to be easier in the defense industrial base because there are cleared environments for information sharing; however, this is becoming more efficient with Information Sharing Analysis Centers (ISACs). Boards of Directors understand competitors stealing intellectual property, so framing cyber threats in the same vein is the most productive way to get them to understand the importance of nation-state espionage or cyber criminals.  The Right Way to Do Threat Intelligence: Think Globally Act Locally (13:26-24:00) The most important threat intelligence is internal network telemetry. The wrong mentality is to buy threat intelligence feeds and load indicators of compromise (IOCs) into a security tool like a SIEM. This will result in tremendous workloads with little results as good actors change their signatures constantly. Instead, it's important to get timely, actionable, and relevant finished intelligence on actors and their campaigns, not data or information. Finished intelligence might be reviewing technical methodologies of Russian GRU (or REvil ransomware) actors and identifying behaviors that can be detected internally on the network. At the highest level of attack campaigns are assignments of individuals to attack one particular company and steal/monetize something very specific. After gaining this intelligence, a security team can “dogpile” with the different entities of the business (SOC, applications, IT, development, mobile, etc.) to hunt and defend, “think globally, act locally.” Threat intelligence could certainly be outsourced, especially for companies who do not belong in an industry with ISACs.  The Hardest Part of Intelligence Analysis: Determining Targeted Attack Versus Commodity (24:00-31:00) The hardest part of intelligence is being able to quickly identify if the attack is targeted or commodity. An actor who persists on Active Directory and the domain controllers is much different from those who want to exploit a bug in a cloud application or mobile application. Security teams who have minimal visibility gaps with internal network telemetry that can quickly detect these differences separate the mature security teams from the less mature security teams.

In Episode 4 of Know Your Adversary, we are joined by Gigamon Senior Manager Joe Slowik. Our discussion takes a look into the world of Russian nation-state hacking units, particularly the GRU and the SVR. We take a deep dive into the 2015 and 2016 cyber attacks against the Ukrainian power grid and review how Russia’s capabilities are increasing in sophistication, mainly through lateral hand-offs between the teams of hackers operating in IT and OT environments. We discuss the technical details of such operations and how enterprises can better defend themselves while considering the geopolitical ramifications, mainly that GRU tends to blatantly cause disruption and outages while SVR moves more “low and slow” for intelligence collection.  Key takeaways from the episode include:  Different teams with different skill sets were seen in the 2016 cyber attacks on the Ukraine power grid by Russian Unit 74455. This same level of growing maturity was not seen in the previous 2015 Ukraine power grid attack. In 2015, Russian hackers, known in the security industry as “Sandworm,” infiltrated a Ukrainian power grid and successfully “moved laterally” from the information technology environment to the operational technology environment that controlled the electrical grid. They caused a massive outage that became the first known successful cyber attack on a power grid. Then again, in 2016, they conducted the same operation. However, as they moved to the operational technology environment, it was clear a different set of operators were testing other tools that automated the exploitation process. While testing tools on a live OT production environment was not expert tradecraft, it nevertheless demonstrated Russia’s increasing desires to build this tradecraft in people and tools on multiple fronts of computer network exploitation teams.  Lessons for Protecting Enterprise:  Visibility is still critical. If a security team can’t protect what they cannot see, critical infrastructure won’t have the chance to distinguish between different nation-state hacking units.  MTTA and MTTR: Mean time to alert and respond should matter significantly for security teams depending on who the actor is. If it’s clear it’s the GRU, they have experience conducting disruptive attacks, and response should be immediate. However, if it’s the SVR, while the time to respond should be swift, they are probably operating for intelligence collection purposes and not likely to disrupt business operations by turning out the lights.

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including: 1. Tanzania Casinos impacted by ransomware 2. Researchers uncover 9 vulnerabilities in DNS communication stacks 3. U.S. Judge grants FBI authority to login into nation state backdoors, uninstall malware 4. Sweden accuses Russian GRU of 2017-2018 hack, lacks prosecution capability I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to  | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

Dr. James Norrie and Dr. Tamara Shwartz discuss the recent events of the FBI indicting 6 Russian GRU operatives for a range of cyberattacks that took place over the last several years and what this Russian hybrid warfare means for business in the 21st Century.

Mike & Nick talk with former FBI operative, Naval Intelligence officer & Newsweek editor-at-large Naveed Jamali. From Naveed's personal story as an FBI operative, his book 'How to catch a Russian spy', which chronicles his days working to bring down a Russian GRU military officer, his work in the intelligence community, today's news media, and the role social media plays in our elections.For bonus content from this episode & more like merchandise from our show, patron shout-outs & more, check out our Patreon page and become a subscriber! - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=52915535&fan_landing=trueEmail us at canwepleasetalkpodcast@yahoo.com if you have a take on the topic discussed, or if you have a topic in mind you want us to discuss on the program!Follow us on social -IG- @canwepleasetalkpodcastTwitter - @CANWEPLEASETALKTikTok - @canwepleasetalkpodcastSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/can-we-please-talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's another solo episode and we're digging deep into the recent indictment of six Russian GRU agents belonging to Sandstorm. What did they do? What happens now? Is this going to stop future attacks? Listen in and find out! Check out NuHarbor Security for complete cybersecurity protection for your business and a security partner you can trust. Website: https://nuharborsecurity.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nuharbor/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NuHarbor@nuharbor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuharbor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nuharborsecurity/

It's another solo episode and we're digging deep into the recent indictment of six Russian GRU agents belonging to Sandstorm. What did they do? What happens now? Is this going to stop future attacks? Listen in and find out! Check out NuHarbor Security for complete cybersecurity protection for your business and a security partner you can trust. Website: https://www.nuharborsecurity.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nuharbor/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NuHarbor@nuharbor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuharbor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nuharborsecurity/

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including: 1. Nefilim ransomware operators leak victim data after apparent failure to pay 2. U.S. charges Russian GRU members with cyber crimes dating back to 20153. Google Waze vulnerability may have allowed tracking of individuals 4. Cryptocurrency mixing service found charged by U.S. treasury for money laundering I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do? Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police Can tech improve policing? Social and Organizational barriers to change Should social networks fact-check Trump? James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentivesSynthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest Minneapolis will dismantle their police department Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit extrahop.com/TWIT barracuda.com/twit

The past few years have seen an uptick in Russian covert actions across Europe, including assassinations and attempted killings of people in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Just this week, Bulgaria charged three Russian agents with the poisoning of a prominent Bulgarian arms manufacturer. Michael Schwirtz has been an investigative reporter with the New York Times for almost 15 years, and he's been tracking this Russian skulduggery carefully in many of those countries for much of that time. Recently, he's reported on how quite a bit of that activity is linked to one particular unit within the Russian GRU. David Priess sat down with Michael to work through this increasingly aggressive Russian action and what it all means going forward.

The New York Times is now reporting that Russian hackers from the military unit known as the GRU “successfully” targeted Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company that Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars for as a board member. The Burisma hack was carried out by Russian GRU officials which coincidentally were the same military officials who supposedly hacked into the DNC servers. What a coincidence! Of course we know this report from the Times and the Mueller report are both complete BS. There is ZERO evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC servers — ZERO. EMilitia Article: CrowdStrikes Again! NYTimes Claims ‘Russian Hackers’ Successfully Targeted Burisma Holdings’ – E-Militia News http://ow.ly/vU6z30q9kLU Save Our APP To Your Smartphone! https://one.cards/PeteSantilli Morning Prayer Requests: http://petelive.tv/prayer

Beginning in March 2016 units of the Russian federation main intelligence directorate of the general staff GRU hacked the computers and email accounts of organization, employees and volunteers supporting the Clinton campaign including the email account of campaign chairman John Podesta. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/burt-clemons/message

On this episode of Russia Rising, we’ll visit Salisbury, England — the historic cathedral city that became the site of the first chemical nerve agent attack on European soil since the Second World War. The poisoning of former Russian double-agent Sergey Skripal in March 2018 prompted one of the most explosive and controversial allegations facing the Kremlin today: Were Russian secret intelligence agents responsible for the botched assassination? And if so, how could trained Russian spies have been so careless by leaving a trail of evidence for British investigators to follow? In the search for answers, we’ll return to the scene of the crime and speak with former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev. Then we talk to Charles Shoebridge, a former British counter-intelligence officer and then we talk to Russian journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, who has spent the past few years investigating Russian GRU activities. We’ll speak with Dobrokhotov and his counterparts at Bellingcat, a British-based investigative news website, about how they uncovered the true identities of the alleged assassins in Salisbury, one of whom apparently used his real first name and birth date on his fake ID documents and had a vehicle registered to GRU headquarters in Moscow. The Kremlin denies any involvement in the Skripal poisoning and President Putin has said that the two Russian suspects are innocent and ordinary civilians. We’ll cut through the contradicting claims and examine the evidence, including what it reveals about Russia’s intelligence operations. Contact: Twitter: @JeffSempleGN E-mail: RussiaRising@Curiouscast.ca Guests: Alexander Vassiliev, former KGB Agent Charles Shoebridge, former British counter-intelligence officer @ShoebridgeC Roman Dobrokhotov, Editor in Chief of ‘The Insider’ @Dobrokhotov Eliot Higgins / Founder of Bellingcat @EliotHiggins

Arlene Bynon & John LeBoutillier analyze two bombshell stories that dropped this week that could change the context of the Mueller inquiry. New York Times revealed the F.B.I opened an inquiry into whether President Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia. Washington Post reports Trump has prevented everyone, including his staff from knowing details of his conversations with Putin. Also, we learned Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort gave polling data to a Russian GRU officer. Is this the week the game changed in the Trump-Russia Investigation?

The killing of any human being is and should be labeled, an abject, horrible, despicable crime. Since Cain and Abel, at the dawn of time, there has not been any other way to describe the taking of someone's life in a deliberate and premeditated act. The killing of thousands is an atrocity and the killing of millions is a genocide. Our language has evolved with volumes, but the atrocity remains unchanged. There is another twist to this rather obvious and fault-free thinking about killing, and it resides in who is doing it. Whether it is an individual or a State, a person or a government. And then, what type of government: a democracy or a dictatorship, and where in the global pecking order is it ranked, at the top or bottom? With individuals, personal motives are usually recounted to understand the reasons behind a murder. Whereas with States and governments, interests and national security rationales are used to explain such acts. Governments are so much more overwhelming than individuals that even their killings are viewed with some sort of acceptance and even understanding. Especially if a war is afoot, or a combat is ongoing, or a battle is raging. With individuals only one poignant motive gets a pass: self-defense. However, States also use such approach with the notions of preemptive strike, of proactive defense of the homeland, and of ensuring the safety and security of citizens, at all costs. Ever wondered what the term 'at all costs' really means in this context? Never mind. The killing by a State is a mitigated affair and not all killings by all States are treated equally. On the one hand, killing by a winning State (North vs. South during the American Civil War, the Allies vs. the Axis in World I and II to take only few examples) is not only justified but glorified, in all of its methods whether dropping a nuclear bomb (called endearingly a ‘device') on a civilian population, or carpet bombing an entire city, or spraying Mustard Gas or some other new/old trick for killing fellow humans. On the other hand, losers do not have their killings justified nor their dead honored. All of their combat actions, even if in self-defense, are viewed with scorn, contemptuousness and dismay. The winners at Waterloo were revered and their military tactics taught for generations at war academies, but not the losers even if both were engaged in the same senseless, empirical war. Dead Japanese soldiers defending Okinawa were not given the same weigh in history as the GIs battling in the Pacific theater. I think you get the gist of it. So, if you are a State you need no motives but rather cold, rational interests to absolve your killing, and if you were a State you'd better be on the winning side for your murders to be viewed as the mere price for victory. Although that is not always true. The North Vietnamese won a war, but their actions were still vilified by Hollywood and accepted as conventional wisdom by popcorn-munching viewers all other the world. The nationalists in Algeria won the war of independence but there are no movies celebrating their feat. Is it an emerging market thing, versus developed markets? Without getting into any racial or ethnic arguments, who can kill with impunity and who cannot, remains the principal question. This dilemma has come to the fore with the horrible murder of Jamal Khashogi. Rewind few months before such tragic event and zoom in on the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal a former Soviet spy, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury by agents from the Russian GRU service. Go back a few years to the actual killing of Alexander Litvinenko in London, by the same Russian spy agency and the murder and cover-up of Sergei Magnitsky, a tax accountant, in a Moscow prison.  In the aftermaths of these tragic events, why no one is questioning whether Putin should attend the G20 or address the UN General Assembly or be afforded the diplomatic cover and courtesy of a head of State?

A report by Bloomberg alleges that server hardware sold by Supermicro had surveillance chips installed by Chinese authorities at the factory with the intent to spy. Dutch agents uncover a Russian GRU operation trying to hack the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) right as the organization was about to report its findings in the UK poisoning case.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns.

The FBI investigation is complete but the Kavanaugh story is hitting a fever pitch even after new developments. Bette Midler's tweets a.......well you'll hear. Did we change our minds from last week? Docious is the new rent collector with receipt book and all while doing Dad duties. Does he need Red Dead Redemption prep? A fridge on the fritz? What does Cuzzo think about Wilder vs Fury thus far? Cuzzo gets a new movie box and says his early thoughts on the Venom movie.    Extra Media:   Doxing arrest: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409797-capitol-police-arrest-suspect-for-doxing-gop-senators?amp   Russia collusion bombshell: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before?amp   Russian GRU officers charged: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-gru-officers-international-hacking-and-related-influence-and   Leyland Keyser: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6235463/amp/Christine-Fords-high-school-friend-blindsided-named-corroborating-witness.html   Top FBI attorney testimony: http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/10/03/fbi-attorney-explosive-testimony-trump-russia-probe   A New Deal: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/canada-beats-midnight-deadline-to-join-trade-deal-with-us-and-mexico?_amp=true   Witness Tampering? https://www.dailywire.com/news/36744/witness-told-fbi-fords-allies-pressured-her-change-ryan-saavedra   https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/05/grassley-ford-witnesses/            

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen analyzes the fallout from the Trump-Putin summit, what Putin actually wants from Trump, and the indictment of 12 Russian GRU officers. The Intercept’s Micah Lee offers a technical analysis of the indictment of Russian intelligence operatives. NYU professor Nikhil Pal Singh talks about the ahistorical analogies used to describe Trump and l’affaire Russia. Experimental electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never discusses his Russian roots, Steve Bannon's favorite book, and the inspiration for his cinematically dystopic album, "Age Of."

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin singled out 12 Americans he'd like to see the US hand over to Russia for interrogation in exchange for allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to question the 12 Russian GRU agents he recently indicted. Of those, much attention focused on former US Ambassador Michael McFaul. (WhoWhatWhy also interviewed McFaul just a few days ago.)  But Putin singled out, even more prominently, international businessman Bill Browder, a major force behind the passage in 2012 of a particularly powerful piece of legislation, the so-called Magnitsky Act. Browder is Jeff Schechtman's guest in this WhoWhatWhy podcast.  The Magnitsky Act, initiated and lobbied for by Browder, was named after his murdered lawyer, who uncovered Russian government corruption. It created visa and banking sanctions for Russian officials violating human rights. The Magnitsky Act has long been a major point of contention for Putin, and he's actively worked to get the law overturned.  The legislation — which passed the US Senate 92 to 4 — has since, according to Browder, gone viral. It's been copied and passed into law by seven countries, including Canada, and eight more countries are on deck to put it into law.  Browder explains to Schechtman that Putin's hatred of the legislation has nothing to do with ideology. It's about narrowing the range of countries in which Putin and his oligarchs are allowed to park their ill-gotten fortunes — and therefore puts their money at risk.  What surprised Browder most about Helsinki was not Putin's talking about him, or even offering an exchange to get Browder back to Russia, since the Russian president has long been chasing Browder. Rather, he was shocked that Trump had labeled Putin's proposal an “incredible offer.” Putin had suggested that McFaul, Browder, and a group of legislative staffers who had worked on the Magnitsky legislation be sent to Russia for “interrogation.”  Browder reminds us that he is a British citizen and therefore not even subject to Trump's wishes. Similar requests made to the British government of Theresa May, and David Cameron before her, were turned down immediately.  Browder also sheds some new light on the role of Natasha Veselnitskaya — the convener of the famous Trump Tower meeting — and her role as Putin's point person within the US to work toward a repeal of the Magnitsky Act.  Browder, who has long known Putin, talks about the Russian leader's clear understanding of the “Deep State” and how America works, and how the former KGB agent benefits by being a “long-term player.”  As Browder sees it, “If Putin can't bring Russia to the level of the West, he's determined to bring the rest of the world down to the level of Russia.”  Bill Browder is the author of Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Simon & Schuster, paperback version, October 20, 2015).

Scott talks about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s damning indictment against 12 Russian GRU officers that will surely spread across the Trump Administration, campaign and universe. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dworkinreport/support