Episode 32: Breaches, Damned Breaches, and Statistics: The SUNBURST Saga Continues
SolarWinds and SUNBURST are still consuming the Infosec community and a few things have happened since our last episode. Since the Department of Justice has admitted that they were breached and that email inboxes were accessed, Kev tells us just how bad it is. We cover the saga from all angles, from Jetbrains to attribution and techniques to stock prices.
And a cybersecurity podcast in 2021 wouldn’t be a cybersecurity podcast in 2021 if we didn’t talk about WhatsApp and the Twittersphere histrionics that have been going on. We shed some light over whether the changes to their privacy policy truly heralds a U-turn – or whether it's all just another excuse for some #outrage.
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JetBrains in Solarwinds supply chain
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html
Justice Department breached
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/06/doj-email-systems-solarwinds-hackers
WhatsApp, Facebook, and our data
https://www.talkandroid.com/361823-whatsapp-facebook-data-privacy/
Hacking audio ReCaptcha with Google speech to text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh145UIeN9M&feature=emb_title
21 arrests in cyber crackdown
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/21-arrests-in-nationwide-cyber-crackdown
About Cyber Humanity
The podcast taking cybersecurity personally
There's a lot of cool techy stuff going down in cybersecurity, and we love it. But you can't deny that a lot the time we humans get forgotten. Our podcast takes a not-so-serious look at issues in security from a human point of view. Covering social engineering to hacker motivations and everything in between, we chat through security stories and themes and what they mean to us: the oft-neglected humans behind the screen. Apart from Kev, Kev is a cyborg.
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