Podcasts News Tech News CyberWire Daily Spyware campaigns: phishing and watering holes. Signal patches (fast). DHS cyber strategy. Russian election hacking. Cyber Investing Summit. Do smart people pick better passwords?

Spyware campaigns: phishing and watering holes. Signal patches (fast). DHS cyber strategy. Russian election hacking. Cyber Investing Summit. Do smart people pick better passwords?

Published: May 16, 2018, 8:19 p.m.

b'In today\'s podcast we hear that a\\xa0spyware campaign centered on Pakistan\\xa0and thought to be the work of Pakistan\'s military,\\xa0comes in two variants: one for Android, the other for iOS. Vietnam is said to be phishing in a compromised\\xa0Phom\\xa0Penh Post website. Signal patches a cross-site-scripting issue very rapidly. The US Department of Homeland Security releases its cybersecurity strategy. The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower talks to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the Russians didn\'t like Hilary Clinton. Investigation of Vault 7 leaks continues. Notes from the Cyber Investing Summit. And if you\'re so smart, how come your password is "Ninja?"\\xa0Johannes Ullrich from SANS and the ISC\\xa0Stormcast\\xa0podcast, discusses\\xa0the\\xa0EFail\\xa0email encryption issue. Guest is Michelle Maitland from\\xa0SecureStrux\\xa0on risk management framework compliance.'