Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Log4j updates, with a side of Fancy Bear. Roots of Huaweis career as a security risk. Tropic Trooper is back. Meta boots cyber mercenaries. Other cyberespionage incidents.

Log4j updates, with a side of Fancy Bear. Roots of Huaweis career as a security risk. Tropic Trooper is back. Meta boots cyber mercenaries. Other cyberespionage incidents.

Published: Dec. 17, 2021, 9:15 p.m.

It seems that Fancy Bear may be interested in Log4shell after all. CISA issues Emergency Directive 22-02, which addressed Log4j. Huawei\u2019s reputation as a security risk may be traceable to a 2012 incident in an Australian telco\u2019s networks. Tropic Trooper is back, and interested in transportation. Meta kicks out seven \u201ccyber mercenary\u201d surveillance outfits. PseudoManusrypt looks curiously indiscriminate. Johannes Ullrich from SANS Technology Institute on making the great Chinese firewall work for you. Our guest is Terry Halvorsen from IBM on next-gen cybersecurity efforts to fix the cybersecurity inequity. And the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is reportedly hacked.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/241\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices