News Wrap, Coronavirus Edition: WFH Security Woes, Pwn2Own
Threatpost editors discuss this week’s top news stories from COVID-19 themed malware attacks to Pwn2Own updates.
Podcasts
More Than Half of IoT Devices Vulnerable to Severe Attacks
A full 98 percent of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted, exposing personal and confidential data on the network.
RSAC 2020: Editors’ Preview of Hottest Sessions, Speakers and Themes
From data privacy to industrial IoT cybersecurity concerns, Threatpost editors discuss the top stories they expect to see at this year’s RSA Conference, which kicks off next week in San Francisco.
Top stories of this week include a new Emotet Wi-Fi hack and Robbinhood ransomware operators using a “bring your own bug” technique.
Katie Moussouris sounds off on the challenges behind creating successful bug bounty programs.
The researcher behind the five critical Cisco flaws, collectively called CDPwn, talks about why Layer 2 protocols are under-researched when it comes to security vulnerabilities.
The recently disclosed Jeff Bezos phone hack and other incidents show that mobile devices are being increasingly targeted by sophisticated nation-state attackers.
A newly discovered threat actor named Vivin is raking in Monero from cryptomining malware, showing that this type of attack isn’t going away anytime soon.
Are publicly-released PoC exploits good or bad? Why is the Joker malware giving Google a headache? The Threatpost team discusses all this and more in this week’s news wrap.
Threatpost talks to Venafi about the recently-disclosed Microsoft vulnerability and whether the hype around the flaw was warranted.
