This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we sit down for a chat on disinformation with Nina Jankowicz, author of How to Lose the Information War. From the US to Estonia, we’ll discuss how nation states are weaponizing social discussion against their adversaries to sow discord and advance their own influence and agenda, in some cases without even having to pick a side. … [Read more...]
Are Your Company Credentials Exposed on the Dark Web?
The dark web is a collection of anonymous websites that are publicly available, yet hide the IP addresses to make it impossible for users to identify the host. It’s very common that sensitive information made available by data breaches ends up becoming available illicitly for sale on the dark web. According to the 2019 Global State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium-Sized … [Read more...]
Election Security Update
This week on the podcast, we cover the city of Portland's ban on facial recognition technology for both public and private organizations, malware targeting VOIP soft switches, and an update from Microsoft on foreign hacking attempts into entities involved in this year's US elections. … [Read more...]
Snowden Vindication?
This week on the podcast we cover an update on the MYSTIC surveillance platform, one of several covert and potentially illegal spying programs that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked the existence of in 2014. Additionally, we'll discus an update on the payment card skimming malware MageCart and a Python Remote Access Trojan. Episode Note: Yes, we posted this … [Read more...]
Three Cybersecurity Tips from the Sci-Fi Hit Altered Carbon
The Netflix show (and even better book series) Altered Carbon (AC) takes place in a dark and dystopian future. Humanity has figured out how to “digitize” our brains and place them into other bodies, effectively allowing the richest in society to live forever. Although AC is fiction, it illustrates several real-life information security challenges extremely well. Let’s dive into … [Read more...]
