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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Customs and Border Protection is scanning people’s social media, the feds have arrested some swatters, and the FTC has ordered Ring to cough up a fine. This week on Cyber, Motherboard’s premier cyber crime reporter Joseph Cox is back to walk us through the latest in privacy violations done by Washington and the private sector. We’ll also take another look at the criminal world of SIM swappers and auto-swatters.
Stories discussed in this episode:
Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees
'The Comm': The Group Linked to a Nationwide Swatting Rampage
FTC Orders Ring to Pay $5.8 Million in Refunds For Surveilling Customers, Failing to Stop Hackers
Russian FSB Accuses U.S. of Hacking Thousands of iPhones in Russia
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0:00.0 | It's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.3 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.7 | I know this. |
0:14.7 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:16.9 | It tells you everything. |
0:18.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.4 | Eagle one. The package is being delivered. |
0:24.5 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:26.5 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
0:29.3 | Customs and Border Protection is scanning people's social media. |
0:32.2 | The feds have arrested some swatters, and the FTC has ordered Ring to cough up a fine. |
0:37.1 | This week on Cyber, |
0:38.0 | Motherboard's premier cybercrime reporter Joseph Cox is back to walk us through the latest |
0:42.1 | in privacy violations done by Washington and the private sector. We'll also take another look |
0:47.5 | at the criminal world of sim swappers and auto swappers. J.C., how are you doing? |
0:54.4 | Well, good. Thank you for having me again. |
0:57.3 | All right. So, Mr. Cox, the big story I wanted to cover this week is a follow-up to your |
1:01.9 | swatting piece. It looks like the FBI may have figured out who some of the people are behind |
1:06.7 | it. Can you walk us through the original story real quick? |
1:12.1 | The original story we did was where we identified a computer-generated swatting service |
1:20.6 | that was responsible for at least some of the swatting incidents happening around the US at the moment. |
1:29.9 | There's something of a nationwide epidemic of these incidents. |
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