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Venezuela blames power failure on exotic sabotage, again. Huawei may have built North Koreas 3G wireless networks. Were record privacy fines high enough? Logic bombing the customer.

Published: July 23, 2019, 6:06 p.m.

Venezuela\u2019s government says the country\u2019s massive blackout is the work of sabotage by foreign actors (read, the Yanquis) who took down the grid with an \u201celectromagnetic attack.\u201d Documents leaked from Huawei indicate that the electronics giant did essential work for North Korea\u2019s infrastructure. Both Facebook and Equifax say major fines over privacy issues, but there\u2019s growing sentiment that the fines were on the low side. And, coders, make loyalty programs, not logic bombs. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs on defending against disinformation. Guest is Robb Reck from Ping Identity on insider threat programs.\n For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/July/CyberWire_2019_07_23.html\xa0\n Support our show\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices