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Patriotic hacktivism. HNS botnet spreads P2P. Electron vulnerabilities found, mitigated, Criminals target ICOs. Ransomware-as-a-service. Cryptowars. Fancy Bear doxes luge.

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 8:27 p.m.

In today's podcast, we hear about how patriotic hacktivists\xa0are\xa0talking\xa0turkey to high-profile Twitter accounts. The Hide 'N' Seek IoT botnet spreads swiftly through specially crafted peer-to-peer communications. Vulnerabilities found in the Electron developers framework. ICOs are heavily targeted by criminals. Bell Canada was breached, and the Mounties are on the case. Ontario transit operator Metrolinx is asked how it knows North Korea hacked it. British Prime Minister May takes a swing at secure messaging and tech companies generally. Fancy Bear doesn't like Olympic luge.\xa0David DuFour from\xa0WebRoot\xa0with his outlook on ransomware for the coming year. Guest is Malcolm Harkins from Cylance with thoughts on the Aadhaar data breach.\xa0And what's the significance of a values statement?\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices