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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