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Symantec Cyber Security Brief Podcast

Our regular podcast series features threat research and security news, hosted by threat researchers from the Threat Hunter Team.

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Spotlight On: BEC scams – an expensive threat

Spotlight On: BEC scams – an expensive threat

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien, Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman focus on business email compromise ... Read more

28 Nov 2019

20mins

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Round-up: Ransomware, vulnerabilities, and eavesdropping

Round-up: Ransomware, vulnerabilities, and eavesdropping

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman bring you a round-up of the biggest cyber securit... Read more

30 Jan 2020

20mins

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A second supply chain attack attempt against CCleaner, voice-controlled home assistants spying on owners, and dodgy mobile biometric authentication

A second supply chain attack attempt against CCleaner, voice-controlled home assistants spying on owners, and dodgy mobile biometric authentication

In this week's Cyber Security Brief, Dick O'Brien and Candid Wueest discuss some of the biggest cyber security stories o... Read more

24 Oct 2019

21mins

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Holiday shopping special: Scams to watch out for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Holiday shopping special: Scams to watch out for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

On this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we bring you a holiday shopping cyber security special in advance of Black... Read more

21 Nov 2019

22mins

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One billion dollars in Bitcoin on the move, data breaches, Mastercard and Google’s info-sharing deal, and MikroTik developments

One billion dollars in Bitcoin on the move, data breaches, Mastercard and Google’s info-sharing deal, and MikroTik developments

In this week’s podcast we discuss how insiders are often the ones to blame for data breaches, and how often data breache... Read more

6 Sep 2018

27mins

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Gallmaker research, Navionics breach, and Fitbit data used by cops in murder investigation

Gallmaker research, Navionics breach, and Fitbit data used by cops in murder investigation

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec threat researchers Jon DiMaggio and Candid Wuees... Read more

11 Oct 2018

22mins

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Deep Dive: Symantec Takes on Software Supply Chain Attacks

Deep Dive: Symantec Takes on Software Supply Chain Attacks

Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec product manager Arvind Rao and architect Haik Mesropian to discuss their work, and wh... Read more

13 Sep 2018

25mins

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APT28 activity, cryptojacking research, and Face ID used to access criminal suspect’s phone

APT28 activity, cryptojacking research, and Face ID used to access criminal suspect’s phone

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief we discuss two of our recently-published pieces of research. First, we are ... Read more

4 Oct 2018

29mins

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Xbash threat, TripAdvisor fake review clampdown, blockchain casinos targeted, and who is behind DDoS attacks on UK unis?

Xbash threat, TripAdvisor fake review clampdown, blockchain casinos targeted, and who is behind DDoS attacks on UK unis?

On this week’s podcast Dick O’Brien is joined by threat researchers Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman to discuss the big... Read more

20 Sep 2018

29mins

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Formjacking research, WordPress plugins cause problems, the dangers of plaintext password storage, and the Mojave zero day

Formjacking research, WordPress plugins cause problems, the dangers of plaintext password storage, and the Mojave zero day

In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we discuss recent research Symantec has published on formjacking, as well ... Read more

27 Sep 2018

24mins

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Attack Group of the Month: Shamoon – targeting the Middle East with disk-wiping malware

Attack Group of the Month: Shamoon – targeting the Middle East with disk-wiping malware

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast we are introducing a new feature – Attack Group of the Month. Every month we... Read more

5 Dec 2019

26mins

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Spotlight On: Iranian cyber espionage activity

Spotlight On: Iranian cyber espionage activity

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we decide to take a look at an issue that is very topical at the moment – Iranian c... Read more

9 Jan 2020

24mins

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Privacy concerns, election campaign worries, and phish-y meeting invites

Privacy concerns, election campaign worries, and phish-y meeting invites

On this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Brigid O’Gorman and Candid Wueest to discuss som... Read more

14 Nov 2019

23mins

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Spotlight On: Software vulnerabilities and patch management

Spotlight On: Software vulnerabilities and patch management

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss a timely issue – the importance of patching software vulnerabilities and... Read more

23 Jan 2020

20mins

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Spotlight On: Targeted ransomware – a major trend in 2019

Spotlight On: Targeted ransomware – a major trend in 2019

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we turn the spotlight onto targeted ransomware – one of the most active threats we ... Read more

12 Dec 2019

22mins

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Cyber Security Brief’s Review of the Year

Cyber Security Brief’s Review of the Year

This week’s episode of the Cyber Security Brief is the last one of 2019, so we are taking a look back at some of the big... Read more

19 Dec 2019

26mins

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Fancy Bear attack campaign, ransomware hits Johannesburg again, and malware hijacks Discord client

Fancy Bear attack campaign, ransomware hits Johannesburg again, and malware hijacks Discord client

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman to discuss the biggest ... Read more

31 Oct 2019

21mins

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Spotlight On: Living off the land

Spotlight On: Living off the land

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss “living off the land”, where attackers use legitimate tools on your devi... Read more

16 Jan 2020

21mins

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Lasers, Bluekeep, and BEC scammers continue to cash in

Lasers, Bluekeep, and BEC scammers continue to cash in

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman to discuss the biggest ... Read more

7 Nov 2019

23mins

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Round-up: A whole host of vulnerabilities, and the hackers hacking other hackers

Round-up: A whole host of vulnerabilities, and the hackers hacking other hackers

In this week's Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O'Gorman and Dick O'Brien discuss some of the biggest infosec news s... Read more

12 Mar 2020

23mins

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