103: Cloud Hopper

For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure their firewalls.Was it ethical? Was it effective? They disrupted nine zero-day attacks, exposed who wa ...  Show more

In the streets of the Dominican Republic, a new economy thrives in the shadows. It’s built not on tourism or sugar, but on stolen data. They call them tarjeteros. And they are making a lot of money from stolen credit cards. This is a story about one group of tarjeteros who came t ...  Show more

Russian state hackers breach Microsoft. LockBit claims Subway restaurants hack. A Swedish datacenter is hit with ransomware. VMware patches a vulnerability targeted by Chinese espionage groups. Sentinel Labs warns of North Korean APTs focus on cybersecurity pros. FTC order anothe ...  Show more

Another day of all the hacking news. Now the hackers are forging Emergency Data Requests. Apparently there have been vulnerabilities in Wyze security cameras that no one bothered to fix. TSMC warns of a tech slowdown. Masa Son orders his lieutenants to slow down investing just a ...  Show more

Technology is advancing at pace never seen before and the newest tech, applications and widgets are being widely adopted at an even quicker rate. 

Just look at A.I. and machine learning tools,which are now used to identify things once thought unimaginable — whether it's ...

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