Symantec Cyber Security Brief Podcast

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss the claims and counter claims related to the Bloomberg Businessweek story published at the start of October that alleged Chinese spies had infiltrated U.S. companies by implanting secret chips on Super Micro motherboards – a story that has been rebutted by almost all the companies mentioned in it, including Super Micro itself, Apple and Amazon. With calls from those companies now for Bloomberg to retract the story, we discuss this ongoing saga. Also in the last week, a Russian woman was indicted in the U.S. on charges of playing a role in a conspiracy to interfere in the U.S. political system, meanwhile, Twitter released a huge trove of tweets it had identified that were attempting to influence political campaigns in the last couple of years. We consider the significance of that move from the social media giant.

Something a little different this week as we take a behind-the-scenes look at life in Symantec. Dick O’Brien chats to three Symantec engineers working in different parts of the company, and at different stages in their careers, to find out what it is really like to work as an engineer in a cyber security firm. Dick is joined by Symantec engineers Sayali Kulkarni, Conor Murray and Eric Chien to discuss the evolution of their careers in cyber security.

Something a little different this week as we take a behind-the-scenes look at life in Symantec. Dick O’Brien chats to three Symantec engineers working in different parts of the company, and at different stages in their careers, to find out what it is really like to work as an engineer in a cyber security firm. Dick is joined by Symantec engineers Sayali Kulkarni, Conor Murray and Eric Chien to discuss the evolution of their careers in cyber security.

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec threat researchers Jon DiMaggio and Candid Wueest to discuss the big cyber security stories of the last week. We talk about Symantec’s latest research on a previously-unknown attack group called Gallmaker, which is using “living off the land” and publicly-available hack tools to target organizations in the government and defense sectors. We also discuss the hack of the SpankChain cryptocurrency project, the breach at Garmin-owned boating app Navionics, and how Fitbit data has been used in a murder investigation.

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec threat researchers Jon DiMaggio and Candid Wueest to discuss the big cyber security stories of the last week. We talk about Symantec’s latest research on a previously-unknown attack group called Gallmaker, which is using “living off the land” and publicly-available hack tools to target organizations in the government and defense sectors. We also discuss the hack of the SpankChain cryptocurrency project, the breach at Garmin-owned boating app Navionics, and how Fitbit data has been used in a murder investigation.

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief we discuss two of our recently-published pieces of research. First, we are joined by Threat Analyst Stephen Doherty to discuss the recent activity of APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear), which made headlines in 2016 due to its involvement in cyber attacks against an organisation involved in the U.S. presidential election. Then, we talk about our newly published whitepaper examining the topic of cryptojacking – one of the hottest subjects in the world of cyber security in 2018. Finally, we discuss a first-of-its-kind case in the U.S. where a criminal suspect was forced by the FBI to use Face ID to unlock his iPhone.

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief we discuss two of our recently-published pieces of research. First, we are joined by Threat Analyst Stephen Doherty to discuss the recent activity of APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear), which made headlines in 2016 due to its involvement in cyber attacks against an organisation involved in the U.S. presidential election. Then, we talk about our newly published whitepaper examining the topic of cryptojacking – one of the hottest subjects in the world of cyber security in 2018. Finally, we discuss a first-of-its-kind case in the U.S. where a criminal suspect was forced by the FBI to use Face ID to unlock his iPhone.

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we discuss recent research Symantec has published on formjacking, as well as the formjacking attacks that have been carried out by the Magecart group. We also discuss how outdated plugins are allowing malicious code to be injected into WordPress sites, the Apple macOS Mojave zero day, and why it’s never a good idea for companies to store their customers’ passwords in plaintext.

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we discuss recent research Symantec has published on formjacking, as well as the formjacking attacks that have been carried out by the Magecart group. We also discuss how outdated plugins are allowing malicious code to be injected into WordPress sites, the Apple macOS Mojave zero day, and why it’s never a good idea for companies to store their customers’ passwords in plaintext.

On this week’s podcast Dick O’Brien is joined by threat researchers Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman to discuss the biggest cyber security stories of the week. We take a look at the newly-discovered Xbash malware family and what it can do, as well as discussing the first case of its kind where a man was convicted and imprisoned for writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Also, we look at some recent hacks against blockchain casinos, and speculate on the likely perpetrators behind DDoS attacks on UK university networks.

On this week’s podcast Dick O’Brien is joined by threat researchers Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman to discuss the biggest cyber security stories of the week. We take a look at the newly-discovered Xbash malware family and what it can do, as well as discussing the first case of its kind where a man was convicted and imprisoned for writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Also, we look at some recent hacks against blockchain casinos, and speculate on the likely perpetrators behind DDoS attacks on UK university networks.

Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec product manager Arvind Rao and architect Haik Mesropian to discuss their work, and what they are doing to combat software supply chain attacks, the products they are building, and how they are hoping their efforts will help developers combat these attacks.

Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec product manager Arvind Rao and architect Haik Mesropian to discuss their work, and what they are doing to combat software supply chain attacks, the products they are building, and how they are hoping their efforts will help developers combat these attacks.

In this week’s podcast we discuss how insiders are often the ones to blame for data breaches, and how often data breaches are caused by human error more often than malicious attackers. We look at the implications of a deal between Mastercard and Google that allows advertisers to figure out how effective their ads are at getting consumers to make purchases in the real world, and a development in the MikroTik routers hack. Also, we discuss $1 billion in Bitcoin that has suddenly started to move – and ask who might be in control of it?

In this week’s podcast we discuss how insiders are often the ones to blame for data breaches, and how often data breaches are caused by human error more often than malicious attackers. We look at the implications of a deal between Mastercard and Google that allows advertisers to figure out how effective their ads are at getting consumers to make purchases in the real world, and a development in the MikroTik routers hack. Also, we discuss $1 billion in Bitcoin that has suddenly started to move – and ask who might be in control of it?