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Chinese supply-chain hack story gets vanishingly thin. Twitter downs pro-Saudi bots. SEO poisoning. OceanLotus evolves. Ransomware notes.

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, News, Daily News, Technology

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, we hear that no one but Bloomberg seems to retain much faith in Bloomberg's story about Chinese supply-chain seeding attacks. Twitter blocks bots retailing coordinated Saudi talking points about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Latvia says it blocked attempts to interfere with its October elections. SEO poisoning exploits interest in key words associated with US midterms. OceanLotus shows some new trick. A Connecticut town pays ransom. Ransomware hoods take pity on a grieving father. We speak with our Johannes Ullrich from the SANS Institute who discusses DNSSEC root key rollover and Mike Horning from Virginia Tech, shares the results of a study on the implications of regulating social media. For links to all of today's stories, visit https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/October/CyberWire_2018_10_19.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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