The Low Hanging Fruit of a Ransomware Attack

This week on Hacker And The Fed new cyber security labels proposed by the US government could help us buy our new devices, an employee exposes thousands of intelligence and defense employees, Google may be restricting internet access to some employees to reduce their cyber attack risk, a hacker infects his own computer, and Google says an Apple employee found a zero-day but didn't report it, and we answer listener questions about our phones getting searched and email encryption.

Links from the episode: 

White House teams with Amazon, Google and Qualcomm on cybersecurity labels for gadgets

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/us-cyber-trust-labels-will-help-consumers-pick-safer-smart-devices.html

Google exposes intelligence and defense employee names in VirusTotal leak

https://therecord.media/virustotal-user-email-addresses-leaked-google-military-intelligence

Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/google-restricting-internet-access-to-some-employees-for-security.html

Black Hat Hacker Exposes Real Identity After Infecting Own Computer With Malware

https://www.securityweek.com/black-hat-hacker-exposes-real-identity-after-infecting-own-computer-with-malware/

IT Security Analyst Jailed for Impersonating as a Hacker in Own Company

https://cybersecuritynews.com/it-security-analyst-jailed/

Google says Apple employee found a zero-day but did not report it

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/google-says-apple-employee-found-a-zero-day-but-did-not-report-it/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803537

Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/microsoft-cybersecurity-analyst

Cybersecurity Expert Kevin David Mitnick died

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

Listener Questions:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630439/apple-csam-neuralhash-collision-vulnerability-flaw-cryptography

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