Transatlantic Cable Podcast

For the 98th edition of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff jump between the consumer world to a small dip into government ransomware attacks. To start things off, they jump into the world of music for the second straight week. In this story, Genius says that they have evidence of Google scraping their site for song lyrics. To wrap up, they take a look at a recent story around ransomware attacking a US city infrastructure.

Episode 97 of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast looks at two impending lawsuits against Amazon and US telco providers. After that, we head to the music world where Radiohead was threatened by a hacker to release minidisks from OK Computer. Instead of paying the ransom, they released (for a fee) on the internet for all to see. To close things out, we discuss the deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg that went viral after showing up on Instagram.

In episode 96 of the Kaspersky podcast, Jeff and Dave tackle several thorny issues including a recent uproar with PewDiePie and Nimses. They then move onto to look at the recent decision by Facebook to close Open Graph Search and what that means for researchers. They then jump over to discussion around Mozilla's decision to create a premium version of Firefox and how one guy was unlucky enough to have his Pizza Hut account hacked.

Episode 95 of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast hits on the power of encryption, burger joints, Google Chrome and more. To start things off, Dave and Jeff tackle a pair of stories dealing with encryption and how governments are looking at it. Afterwards, they head to a sport story on how a football club may need to re-check where they send their money to. Then discuss a burger joint in the US hit with POS Malware.  To close, Dave and Jeff discuss how big changes are afoot for Google Chrome.

To kick things off, we head down to Charm City - Baltimore is dealing with a serious ransomware attack that's crippling the city. From there, we head to the IoT and privacy front. In a new patent, Amazon is looking to listen to everything you say in an effort to improve the experience for users. We then dive into a databreach of an events company that impacted over 200K users. To close, we look at a new innovation from Chinese inventors that make you think of Terminator 2.

The first story looks at the latest allegations of wrongdoing at Facebook. Moving on from that, we stay in the Facebook world for the second story and look at the shockingly high number of people who still have not updated their Whatsapp, especially on corporate phones. The third story dives into the latest feature of Dota2 that allows users to pay to avoid offensive players. From there we head on to the latest hang-up for 5G in the UK and it is not what you expect.

To kick things off, we start with perhaps the creepiest story we have had in a while. Over in China a “Superhost” on Airbnb was caught taping renters while in the bedroom. From there, we head to Massachusetts where a couple who was purchasing their dream home had the surprise of their life – the money didn’t go to the seller, instead it went to a scammer. The third story stays looks at how Bitcoin ATM companies are working with the NYPD to reduce phone scams.

With the success of Endgame, it's not only Hollywood pundits taking notice, but also scammers. If you are looking to try to watch the movie without going to the theater, please beware of this scam. From there, we look at how little folks in the UK trust news when it comes to news from social media and their want (need?) for more regulation. From there, we jump across to Google where the search giant is now offering to delete your search history every three months.

Today marks the 90th episode of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast in this episode, we touch on fraud, cybercrime and a pair of reports mixed with some innuendo, shaken not stirred. To start things off, we look at the annual IC3 report from the FBI, what stands out is the staggering amount of money that was stolen in 2018 in the US. From there, we take a look at how USB devices can be weaponized. Afterwards we look at the impact digital clutter can have on companies’ bottom lines.

On this week’s edition, we start with how Facebook was caught hoovering up email contacts, without users permission. For the second story, we jump over to the realm where the real world and the social media world intersect, when a crook tried taking over a web-domain by force (hint: it didn't end well). We then head back to the serious side of things where we look at how humans are combating AI within Dota 2. To close things out, we look at the latest developments in Deep Fakes.  

In this week's episode Jeff has taken time out to recover from SAS 2019 and David has been joined by David Emm, principle security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. During the podcast, David and David look at a new report from Bloomberg which reveals that Amazon is using auditors to listen in to Amazon Echo recordings, in order to fine-tune Alexa. They also look at how an app, to turn your car into a 'smart-car', wasn't that smart - due to hard-coded passwords inside the app.

Today, we closed out the 2019 and 11th installment of the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit. Day 2 of the conference was more hectic than day one, three separate tracks, training sessions and a whole lot of walking to cover the whole event. Today, we're joined by Jay Rosenberg from GReAT and Ahmed as we share with you the final results of day two, including Jay's SAS unplugged talk.

Today marked the first day of the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, or SAS for short. During the course of the day, there was a lot of great research and thought-provoking content shared with the attendees. In this podcast, Ahmed joins me from Singapore to discuss what we thought of the day and key presentations. Some topics that we will touch upon include information warfare, stalkerware, Gossip Girl and more.

For the 85th edition of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast, we kick things off looking at the latest victims of the LockerGoga. From there, we jump into the op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg looking to lawmakers to regulate Facebook – yes, you read this right. After Zuck’s take, we look at the recent take downs of hate speech before diving into the issues with Toyota. To wrap things up, we look at the malware targeting the torrents of popular TV shows like Game of Thrones.

It seems like Facebook unfortunately has made it to the forefront for the 84th edition of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast. We kick-off looking as the latest in the saga between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica; according to British lawmakers, Facebook may have known about the data-scraping before previously disclosed. To continue with the bad news for the social media giant, a new report notes that the company had stored user passwords in plaintext. All this and more in episode 84!