Boomstortion. Flags, false and authentic. Nation-state threat actors. Malicious memes. Updates on the Huawei affair.

False flags and real flags. ISIS claims the Strasbourg killer as one of its soldiers. A bogus bomb threat circulates by email.

Joe describes a Nigerian gang called London Blue that focuses on business email compromise. Dave shares surprising Cyber Monday phishing statistics. Guest Chris Bailey from Entrust Datacard teaches us how to detect lookalike sites online and better protect ourselves from fraud.

Researchers at Risk Based Security took a detailed look back at the 2014 Sony hack, comparing analysis that occurred while the facts were still unfolding with what we know, today. There are interesting lessons to be learned, especially when it comes to attribution.

Nation-states behaving badly (and the crooks who imitate them). Patch notes and industry news.

King & Union's Aaron Gee-Clough discusses the benefits and challenges of bringing actionable threat intelligence to small and mid-sized organizations.

Learn about the role the internet has played in Yemen’s civil war, as rival factions fight to gain control of information, access, and infrastructure.

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine grew markedly sharper this past month. On November 25th Russian FSB guard craft fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval units that passed through the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov, transiting between the Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Mariupol...

In this CyberWire special edition, our guest is Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy. We discuss what exactly a chief privacy officer does at a global organization like Cisco, why she thinks we’re in the early stages of a privacy revolution...

In this episode we take a look at the impact GDPR has had since it's implementation in May 2018. Joining us are Emily Mossburg from Deloitte, Caleb Barlow from IBM, and Steve Durbin from ISF.

The CyberWire is pleased to present the 5th Annual Women in Cyber Security Reception on Thursday, October 18, 2018, in Washington, DC.

This talk will present a novel application of a machine learning model and a corresponding tool, asm2vec, for vulnerability discovery. Treating both program disassembly as a natural language, we construct embeddings of identifiers at scale using a concept similar to word2vec, in which the output is a vector of related identifiers and their proximity.