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Power grid hacking fears running high. Social media problems. Election DDoS reported in Russia. FTC and SEC cyber enforcement actions. NSA hoarder case update.

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, Daily News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, we hear that tensions between Britain and Russia remain high, as the UK fears a cyberattack. US power utilities are also on alert to an ongoing Russian cyber campaign. Despite a claimed DDoS attack, President Putin is re-elected in Russia. Facebook under fire for Cambridge Analytica data incident. More political bots in Twitter. YouTube tries content moderation. FTC takes on an alt-coin Ponzi scheme. SEC has "dozens" of ICO investigations in progress. Notes on the Hal Martin alleged NSA-hoarder case. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs with tips on cryptography deployment. Guest is Paul Brigner from the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) at Georgetown University, discussing their research on Virtual Browsers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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