NetSpectre proof-of-concept. Election hacking, in the US and Australia. Cyber industrial espionage. Cyber threats to power grids. Hacking JPay.

Published: July 30, 2018, 6:02 p.m.

b"In today's podcast, we hear about NetSpectre,\\xa0a new speculative execution proof-of-concept. Australia's Electoral Commission says there were no signs of hacking recent by-elections. US states remain concerned about election hacking. Missouri Senator McCaskill confirms that Fancy Bear made an unsuccessful attempt to access her staff's network. Russian threats to power grids. Industrial espionage continues to go after corporate IP. And news you can use about\\xa0JPay\\xa0(we know: you're asking for a friend).\\xa0Jonathan Katz from UMD on the timeline for practical quantum computers.\\xa0\\n For links to all of these stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/July/CyberWire_2018_07_30.html"