Collaborate Disseminate
In this week’s episode your hosts practice standing on one leg, Carole gives Graham a deepfake quiz, and we investigate how Strava may be exposing the movements of world leaders.
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The influence campaign includes a phony Netflix documentary and seeks to undermine France and the International Olympic Committee.
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A multifaceted framework for lessening aggression in global cyberspace was unveiled by the French government on Monday, drawing support from tech giants and digital rights groups. Announced on the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace condemns “malicious cyber activities in peacetime,” affirms the applicability of international law to nation-state behavior in cyberspace, and aims to keep private companies from hacking back. The document pledges to strengthen the ability of government and private-sector organizations to combat interference in electoral processes through malicious cyber activities. Like the U.S. 2016 presidential election, France’s 2017 presidential election was reportedly the target of Russian hack-and-leak operations. Previous cyber norms initiatives have been confined to governments or industry, but the Paris Call aims to be the first multi-stakeholder initiative backed by governments, industry, academia, and civil society, according to Klara Jordan, head of the Atlantic […]
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Identity fraud reached a record high in 2017 with 16.7 million U.S. victims (an increase of 8 percent over 2016) and $16.8 billion dollars stolen. So, it should come as no surprise that your personally identifiable information (PII) and login credentia… Continue reading Identity Thieves – Phishing and Pilfering Your PII
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The hacked emails leaked last week from the campaign of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron contain phishing links pointing to domains associated with Fancy Bear, the hacking group also known as APT28 that has been linked to Russian intelligence agencies, according to the cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. “Flashpoint’s hypothesis [is] that the Macron leak was undertaken by Fancy Bear based on the contents of the dump itself, as well as the current and historic political environment in which this attack took place,” said Vitali Kremez, research director for Flashpoint. The same group was blamed for hacking Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2016, and researchers have recently linked other high-profile phishing attempts to the group. “These domains were likely registered and deployed in the phishing emails in order to harvest the login credentials of Macron campaign personnel,” Kremez said. “These credentials could have provided hackers with the information needed to obtain the documents in the […]
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Last week’s “massive and coordinated hack” against the campaign of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron was the opening act in a year slated with critical European elections that will help decide the fate of the EU. The incident was, for about 24 hours, a hold-your-breath moment for Macron’s campaign. By Sunday night, the centrist candidate handily won, taking more than 66 percent of the vote over far-right-wing rival Marine Le Pen. Le Pen’s global array of opponents exhaled. But any reprieve for election systems’ cyber-defenders is destined to be brief. The United Kingdom, Germany and France are readying themselves for further elections and similar potential attacks. Experts have noted close similarities between this week’s leaked emails and hacks against American political targets in 2016 that were blamed widely on Russian intelligence agencies. While most experts say it’s too early yet to definitively attribute these latest attacks to any specific group, many expect the coming year to be […]
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The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was targeted by a “massive and coordinated hack,” according to a statement from the campaign late Friday. A large collection totaling nine gigabytes of emails purportedly from the campaign was posted online less than two days before the country’s election in which Macron faces off against Marine Le Pen. Macron, who has accused Russia of cyberattacks against his campaign in the past, was targeted this year by the hacking group Fancy Bear, according to the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. Fancy Bear has widely been linked to Russian intelligence operations and is one of the groups that hacked into U.S. political institutions including the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. Macron’s political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) confirmed that it had been hacked, according to Reuters. “The En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and coordinated hack this evening which has given rise to the […]
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