A quick look at the state of spam. Phishing for power grids. Industrial espionage. Free and command economy versions of social control. Lessons from JTF Ares.
In today’s podcast we hear that Emotet ramped up for Black Friday—beware of the spam. Social engineering and the power grid. Industrial espionage resurfaces as an issue in Sino-American relations. Huawei remains unforgiven in Washington. China’s emerging social credit system. Bottom-up social control in the US: first they came for the dogwalkers. Making a Dutch book on social media. Russia tightens Internet laws. The US Army learns some lessons, in a good way, from Joint Task Force Ares. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI, wondering if we have a cyber skills gap or a shortage of courage.
