Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Facebook takes down "inauthentic" Russian and Iranian fronts. Twitter blocks Iranian false-flags, and FireEye explains why they think it's Tehran. Triout Android spyware described. Hacking back?

Facebook takes down "inauthentic" Russian and Iranian fronts. Twitter blocks Iranian false-flags, and FireEye explains why they think it's Tehran. Triout Android spyware described. Hacking back?

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 6:23 p.m.

b'In today\'s podcast we hear that Facebook has taken down more inauthentic pages\\u2014some are Russian, but others are Iranian. Twitter blocks Iranian accounts for being bogus. Russia denies, again, any involvement in information operations against the US. US Army Cyber Command\'s boss wonders if his job isn\'t more "information ops" than "cyber." Bitdefender describes\\xa0Triout, an Android spyware framework. And some in industry caution the Senate not to expect them to get frisky hacking back.\\xa0Craig Williams from Cisco\\u2019s\\xa0Talos\\xa0team, discussing MDM (mobile device management) vulnerabilities. Guest is James Burns from CFC Underwriting on cyber security insurance.\\xa0\\n For links to all of today\'s stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/August/CyberWire_2018_08_22.html'