133: I'm the Real Connor

It started with a fake car listing on eBay.What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryp ...  Show more

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

A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a maze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden's commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Gra ...  Show more

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