Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Rebooting routers against VPNFilter. Canadian banks compromised? Cobalt gang is back. 51% attacks on blockchains. "Courvoisier" sentenced. NATO looks at Russia's weaponized jokes.

Rebooting routers against VPNFilter. Canadian banks compromised? Cobalt gang is back. 51% attacks on blockchains. "Courvoisier" sentenced. NATO looks at Russia's weaponized jokes.

Published: May 29, 2018, 7:43 p.m.

In today's podcast we hear that the FBI recommends rebooting\xa0your routers\xa0against\xa0VPNFilter. Data extortion hits Canadian banks. The Cobalt Gang is back. 51% attacks fiddle with cryptocurrencies.\xa0BackSwap\xa0banking Trojan is tough to detect. Coca-Cola discloses data theft by a former employee. Courvoisier\u2014the hacker, not the cognac, gets ten years. Facebook continues to work on its content moderation, and Papua New Guinea may block the platform for a month of study. NATO studies humor, very seriously.\xa0Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on police attempts to use a deceased person\u2019s fingerprints to unlock a phone. Guest is Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on their recent threat report covering IoT and DDoS.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices