Summary
Ben Makuch sits down with one of InfoSec’s only true celebrities: The Grugq (who recently added the name ‘Thaddeus’ to his Twitter account, which has over 100,000 followers.)
For the uninformed, the Grugq is a South African hacker, security research, OPSEC expert and highly entertaining Twitter follow with a history of being an exploit broker that has a rolodex of government contacts (he once claimed in Forbes to be taking in over $1 million in a single year skimming a fee off of exploit sales as a middle-man to intelligence agencies).
In this episode, the hacking and spy expert cuts through the media tailspinning around disinfo campaigns to tell us what 2020 election meddling might just look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Tannen. |
| 0:02.0 | It's got the code. It's going to launch. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.0 | I know this. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.6 | Eagle won. |
| 0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:26.6 | Barely a day goes by in Washington, D.C. without pundits worrying about what the Russians will do in 2020. |
| 0:33.6 | The 2020 election, it is already under attack. You thought I was going to say underway, no, under attack. |
| 0:40.3 | We assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 U.S. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. |
| 0:48.5 | Will the Internet Research Agency, Russia's Troll Army, strike again? |
| 0:52.8 | Will the GRU, Russia's military agency, hack the candidate's |
| 0:56.2 | emails and pass them on to WikiLeaks once more? Is the United States prepared to counter |
| 1:01.6 | the attack? No one knows the answers, but everyone is freaking out. On this week's cyber, we |
| 1:08.5 | talked to the grug, probably the closest thing to an infosex celebrity in the entire world. |
| 1:14.1 | The grug recently spoke about how the internet has changed disinformation and information operations, |
| 1:19.7 | and he's here today to tell us all about it. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber. |
| 1:28.9 | What's with the name Thaddeus? |
| 1:31.0 | I saw Thaddeus the grug now. |
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