Mirai variant establishes proxies. Buggy smart contracts. Banking glitch. Studies from Verizon, Thales. FTC addresses credential stuffing.
In today's podcast we hear, OMG, that Mirai is out in a new and improved form. Researchers find buggy smart contracts on Ethereum. A Chase glitch briefly exposed banking customers' information to other banking customers. Hacktivists continue to hit spyware companies. Verizon's Mobile Index warns that mobile security is being traded for business efficiencies. Thales looks at data security and finds that data breaches seem to have risen with cloud migration. The FTC doesn't like credential stuffing. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs with an update on Dark Web markets after last year’s Alpha Bay takedown. Guest is Andrea Little Limbago from Endgame, discussing her blog post, “The March Toward Data Localization.”