Hacktivists claim to perform a public service. Once and Recorded Future ransomware. Attribution controversies. Disturbing toys.
In today's podcast, we hear about how some hacktivists are again turning to defacement, which they claim to be doing as a public service to raise security awareness. Recorded Future takes a close look at ransomware's likely course in 2017. ISIS exposes itself online. Attribution controversies: the Vermont hack-that-wasn't, tactical hacks in eastern Ukraine, and the FBI-NCCIC Joint Analysis Report. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Technology Labs describes how Deep Learning may be applied to cyber security. And would you hug Skynet, if it looked like Teddy Ruxpin?