Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily ExileRAT versus Tibet. SpeakUp backdoors Linux. Facebook bans Myanmar militias. Norway sees a threat in Huawei. Westminster gets hacked? Bangladesh Bank sues over SWIFT caper.

ExileRAT versus Tibet. SpeakUp backdoors Linux. Facebook bans Myanmar militias. Norway sees a threat in Huawei. Westminster gets hacked? Bangladesh Bank sues over SWIFT caper.

Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 6:46 p.m.

In today\u2019s podcast, we hear that\xa0ExileRAT\xa0is targeting Tibet\u2019s government-in-exile. The\xa0SpeakUp\xa0backdoor afflicts many varieties of Linux systems. Facebook bans ethnic militias in Myanmar from its platform. Norway\u2019s PST intelligence service says that Huawei constitutes a security risk, and China says that\u2019s nonsense. Someone seems to be hacking contact lists belonging to UK Members of Parliament. Bangladesh Bank is suing to recover the $81 million missing from its 2016 SWIFT heist.\xa0Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on Facebook\u2019s password flexibility on mobile devices. Guest is Josef Williamson from\xa0EclecticIQ\xa0on cyber espionage and nation state threats.\n For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/February/CyberWire_2019_02_05.html\xa0\n Support our show\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices