Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Don't get cozy with Cozy Bear. Code-signing issues stem from muddled documentation. Devices ship with inadvertent backdoor. Matryosha attack. Operation WireWire versus BEC scammers.

Don't get cozy with Cozy Bear. Code-signing issues stem from muddled documentation. Devices ship with inadvertent backdoor. Matryosha attack. Operation WireWire versus BEC scammers.

Published: June 12, 2018, 6:01 p.m.

In today's podcast we hear that the US Treasury Department\xa0has\xa0announced\xa0sanctions against Russian entities it says were too cyber-cozy with the FSB. Code-signing issue looks like what we have here is a failure to communicate. Android devices are being shipped with ADB enabled, and\xa0cryptojackers\xa0enter by the backdoor. A layered criminal attack posing as emails from Samsung\xa0spearphishes\xa0Russian victims. Operation\xa0WireWire\xa0reels in seventy-four business email compromise suspects.\xa0Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on the framing of the encryption debate.\xa0 Guest is Steve Schult from LogMeIn and LastPass on best practices password security.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices